The Department of Justice, however, issued a brief on the case after Enbridge appealed the ruling. While the Department of Justice agreed Enbridge has been trespassing and must pay more damages to the Bad River Band, the brief did not take a firm position on whether Line 5 should be shut down for good. Now is the time to make it clear to the Biden administration that we cannot afford to continue allowing Enbridge to pump oil through our Great Lakes.
I use evernote for making notes and outlines of ideas before I use word to draft documents. It's so important to be able to easily move ideas (ie paragraphs) around to get the structure of ideas right.
If they implemented drag drop, a keyboard shortcut should really be a simple implementation! The functionality is already there, just click based! It also means that they have seen demand for this general functionality out there.
I've got probably a decade's worth of muscle memory using Alt+Shift+arrows to re-arrrange text across a range of programs (Word, OneNote, Dynalist and several others), using it dozens if not hundreds, even thousands, of times every day when taking notes and editing docs.
I'm looking for something to fully replace my handwritten notes at work, and sync across laptop, iPad and phone - so necessitating a premium subscription if I select Evernote - but I just can't see me being able to use it without this basic functionality that's totally ingrained in all my usage patterns. Oh well, off to look at (& spend any money with) competitors despite liking quite a lot of what Evernote offers...
Hey! I just wanted you to know that after a very long time I came back to evernote, just to see that this feature has not been implemented yet. Immediately switched to another software which has this feature.
They finally implemented a drag and drop function, so you can click on a number (in an ordered list) or a bullet (in a bulleted list) and move the line (and it's children) to a different place. If we get a keyboard shortcut assigned to this, it would be amazing.
Thinking about switching to OneNote because of lack of this feature, and moreso Evernote's demonstration that they aren't listening to users (going on 9 years without response to this). I've been a subscriber and advocate for Evernote for years but now that I use OneNote in some contexts (and can use paragraph reordering shortcuts in it as well as Word), it's a terrible frustration not to have it in Evernote's editor.
I've just come back to Evernote from Obsidian, and really miss this feature, there's even toolbar buttons in its mobile app to move lines up and down, very useful for quickly reordering lists. In VS Code and Notepad++ I use alt+up/down for moving the current row, and alt+shift+down for cloning the current row. Would be great to have these features here as well.
oh wow. i am a new user of evernote and i am currently browsing the forums to look for information regarding this. so apparently, there's no way to do this yet? I find that this is very useful and will be very convenient for all users if they have this. i am very much into keyboard shortcuts and do not use the mouse as much as possible. i hope this is included in a future update.
With all the fancy bells and whistles the developers have jammed into Evernote I find it :shock: shocking :shock: that they have not thought of including this one... How could they have missed it???
I think that actually Evernote's note editor is actually pretty stripped-down; not that many bells and whistles. I just tried Microsoft Word 2010 (a program that has many bells & whistles, if ever there was one); that doesn't support the Shift+Alt+Arrow shortcut either. And you can always cut'n'paste. So I don't really see this as quite so "glaring". Sorry it doesn't match up with your needs, however; I don't mean to imply that it's a bad idea.
If you have never used this feature, I understand your response. I never felt a need for it either, until I discovered the feature in Eclipse and started using it. It is a very natural way of moving paragraphs, once you get used to it. And I miss it in the editors that don't have it.
I really do get that your feature request has merit. I just don't think that it's as important as you seem to believe, particularly since there's a workaround (i.e. cut'n'paste). It's still allowed for users to have differences of opinion, last time I checked.
FWIW, there are many, many, many people who have a particular feature that they think is absolutely essential. Any software that doesn't have it must have been designed/written my morons. Etc. Quite often, there are at least as many others who think that feature is nice but not essential & would never use it and still others who think it's not essential but nice & may use it if it were implemented. Whether or not EN elects to include these features depends on many things including prioritizing time & money (which is often the same thing.) Apparently, even Microsoft figured it wasn't all that essential, since it was dropped. (shrug) (The weight that carries with the reader of course, depends upon their take on Microsoft. )
I would also agree with Jeff, that the EN editor is not all that feature packed. I'm not complaining b/c if I need lots of formatting, I'll simply use Word. I think the reason is that they aren't really trying to be a text editor, plus they want the usage to be as similar as possible across all platforms, plus, all attributes of the text must be able to be viewed on all the platforms, etc, etc, etc. So I think they started out with a very basic text editor & are improving it as time/money permits.
Does anyone know if there are better workaround than copy-paste ? Maybe external tools/plugins/customized hotkeys, etc? I feel it is the only feature missed that prevents me from moving from MS OneNote to evernote for windows.
As someone mentioned, once you start doing it in other programs, not having makes Evernote feel stunted. Though I understand many people wouldn't use this, I would argue that most users don't use the majority of features at their disposal. Anyhow, add me to the list of people that would love to have this feature.
for me this is the single most important feature request to evernote. in fact, in spite of loving evernote, I spent 2 hours sifting through all competitor aps, installing them, trying out, etc, ust to see if anyone has this feature. none had...
Using ALT-SHIFT (UP/DOWN) ARROW in MS Word is the single most important feature I use. Other's I've shared this tip with love it! Imagine using it in a shopping list and putting your cursor on any line and simply pressing this key combination to move the item up and down in your list.
This is a huge timesaver and being a developer, It's a big-bang feature for Evernote for a pretty small effort. Maybe the Evernote developers could try it in their own writing/development. Works for moving lines of Code up and down as well. I'm sure they would fall in love with it quickly.
and, equally, all this would be just as important on mobile. I imagine it like this: 1 single additional button in the top or bottom bar when editing a note. when one hits that button, one goes from editing mode to marking and moving mode. then one could either
swipe over some text with the finger to mark it, and then have some options what to do with this piece of text (not so simple, but more feature rich solution. it would also help resolving the notorious problem that it is so utterly difficult to mark any text with two finger gestures. I often use it as I work much with underlining, bold face, highlighting, etc, but it is not a pleasure at all. and far from being effective...)
It's just insane this this feature isn't implemented yet. Evernote is meant to be the ber-tool for note takers. I take notes everywhere, but principally at customer meetings. Those notes are a prcis of key points from my clients, and therefore are in bullets. And often I need to reorganize things as the client is speaking, which means moving bullets up, down, left or right. These operations should be some of the easiest things to do in Evernote, but instead the process is buggy and complex.
Since Apple has already added this to Pages, Keynote and other apps some time ago, in a very elegant way, I would imagine they've built this into the lower-level UI libraries and it's available to Evernote to add easily--if Evernote has an interest in actually doing this. Evernote has traditionally cleaved pretty closely to Apple UI design guidelines, so hopefully this isn't too difficult.
I definitely want to see this added, and am disappointed that it appears to have been suggested back in 2011? Is there somewhere that Evernote users get to vote on functionality? You don't have to take away Cut/Paste... but please find a way to do this edit. I would add my +1 to the discussion, and also add how many times I go to do this in the editor. I would even be happy with an editor icon that does the function like the "promote and demote" icons. Seems to me that promote and demote would be more difficult to implement.
I wasn't aware of this in Word, and it is a nice feature. Thanks for that, Linda! I use Nota Bene for my writing--it's more a research and writing tool than an "office" one--and it's very good at transposing paragraphs (and sentences, and words), and a good outliner too. But as for Evernote, I don't know that it was ever intended to be an outliner (let alone a good one!); and its editor is notoriously not its best feature. I find it works great for gathering information and short notes wherever I am, to be converted into actual writing (or even outlines) with other tools like Scrivener and Nota Bene. So far, no one-stop-shopping for writing and productivity tools!
/bump to this thread. An ability to move paragraphs OR BULLETED items in list would make life immensely happier. I use Evernote to take notes. I also use Evernote to manage a few lists. I've thought about developing a UI leverage Evernote as a storage engage to customize this single experience. Then I discovered Workflowy, which does pretty much exactly what I had imaged to build on top of Evernote.
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