About Fonts in Evernote

Do you use Evernote?

I like it quite a bit. I use it to organize things I have researched by topic and to save web pages that catch my interest with the browser Web Clipper. It is also useful as a single place to gather knowledge, and I appreciate being able to access it from anywhere, including my PC and smartphone.

Some of the things I save there are of course source code. Evernote has desktop clients for Windows and Mac that let you choose the display font, but I usually spend more time on Linux, so I mostly edit my notes in the browser.

The problem I ran into was the font used for saved code. In the browser version, the available fonts are limited to Times New Roman, Arial, Courier New, Georgia, Trebuchet, and Verdana.

For code, I found Courier New the easiest to read, so I used to change the font every time after typing. But doing that on every note was tedious, and I did not particularly like any of the available fonts anyway. It was also a little awkward when copying notes directly into a blog post because the specified font remained in the HTML.

Recently I noticed that the default font used by Evernote can be changed by changing the browser's default font.

In Firefox, if you set the Default font under Preferences -> Content to a font you like, Evernote's default font changes as well. That turns out to be very convenient. If you set it to a programming-friendly font, your notes become much easier to read without any extra work.

For reference, I use Ricty on Linux and Osaka on Windows.