What's your goal by writing these ideas down?
How do you plan to process them later?
Evernote has a global shortcut to active: Cmd-Ctrl-E (like Evernote), which will bring the Evernote app into the foreground and positions you into the search field.
Then you can either create a new note with Cmd-N (like New), or you can start typing the words you a
re looking for.
Are you sure something like that doesn't work for you?
Disclaimer: I don't use Evernote for note taking but for capturing what I read on the web and taking photos of documents and receipts. It's supposed to be like an external brain to me.
And I also agree that Evernote is a bit of a bloatware, but it's good enough, so I even pay for it yearly, since it can OCR the receipts I scan (and it also supposed to work offline too, though I haven't figured out how)
Evernote has a global shortcut to active: Cmd-Ctrl-E (like Evernote), which will bring the Evernote app into the foreground and positions you into the search field.
Then you can either create a new note with Cmd-N (like New), or you can start typing the words you a re looking for.
Are you sure something like that doesn't work for you?
Disclaimer: I don't use Evernote for note taking but for capturing what I read on the web and taking photos of documents and receipts. It's supposed to be like an external brain to me.
I also share this "capture log" publicly, so I can search it without a login from anywhere: https://www.evernote.com/pub/onetom/links
Search sucks in it though; often I end up just googling instead at the end.
I would also rather use something https://typora.io/ or https://caret.io/ for actual note authoring...
And I also agree that Evernote is a bit of a bloatware, but it's good enough, so I even pay for it yearly, since it can OCR the receipts I scan (and it also supposed to work offline too, though I haven't figured out how)