View/open PDFs inline within note (no separate download)

Comments: 10

• 01 Jan, '21
  Spencer Ogden

  This is the main feature of Evernote preventing me from moving fully to AmpleNote or Roam. I use Evernote to go paperless, so everything gets scanned there. Then, being able to search PDFs using OCR is the killer feature.

• 01 Dec, '21
  Adam Parmer

  Agree with Spencer. This is a feature I realize I miss heavily while in AmpleNote.

• 22 Jan, '22
  Easton B

  I also agree with Spencer and Adam. I love being able to scan things as a PDF into Evernote and then view it there for quick reference within the note. Having a separate attachment that opens in a different window is cumbersome and interrupts the flow I have with Evernote. This would be a killer AmpleNote feature!

• 22 Feb, '22
  Bill Admin

  "Opening PDF attachments is slow" (suggested by William on 2022-02-13), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 03 Mar, '22
  Andrew Savikas

  The way that KeepIt handles PDFs is a good model

• 28 Apr, '22
  Jose

  The tool that has implemented pdf reading best (by a landmile) is logseq.
  See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIDyXyEj_FI
  There's nothing in the market that comes close, and I've searched high and low.
  If the Gods of oneone are listening my prayers, please just copy this exact way of dealing with pdfs. Save a ton of user research. They nailed it

• 23 Jun, '22
  April

  PDFs inline display/OCR and highlighted search terms are crucial features to win over Evernote users.

• 26 Aug, '22
  Alyssa

  Being able to open, highlight, and even write on a pdf in a note would be amazing!

• 19 Feb
  CynthiaS

  Oh, no... I thought this was already implemented. Now that I've imported all my notes from Evernote, I finally see that all my attached docs are not viewable without opening them. This is a huge problem. I think there are two things being discussed in this thread - one is simply being able to view/read the PDF in the note, the other is the ability to do more with the PDF (annotation, highlighting, etc.). I think first you should focus on at least letting us see our attached PDFs in Amplenote. Once that works, you can think about adding more functionality. I hate for the more simple viewing to be held up by the more complex part 2. Thanks!

• 11 Mar
  bobjones

  yeah, bummer this isn't standard. I really want to love Amplenote but basic functionality like this makes it a bit of a pain to use at times.