Version 10

[Tim H 37]

I've been a loyal user of Evernote for many years now, eschewing the Microsoft behemoth for some more open source alternates. Evernote was a bit of a compromise, but at least it wasn't MS. So I await new developments with interest. This last one seems to be a disaster.

So far I have found the following issues with Evernote 10 that render it unsuitable for my use. I use Evernote as my journal/to do lists/note taking application to pretty much manage my life, and as such ease of use is important, as is customisation and personalisation. It is the application in which I spend most of my time. And it has been brilliant.

So far, after an upgrade to version 10, I find the product sorely lacking for this and am seriously considering alternatives (for Windows and Android). Even to the point of test driving OneNote, Joplin, Notion and a couple of others. Key for me is the ability to use my own fonts within the app - while I know these will not convert on Android, I deal with that. Most of my time is spent in Windows. Right now I can't even change the default font from the half dozen that are available.

So, in no particular order :
 

1) while you have moved the ability to delete/rename/edit the notebook to the second column, why not retain it on the first column anyway? I'll live with it, but even so...

2) there are no preferences available. So I can't change my data location (might be important), defaul font, or, indeed, anything. Evernote is no longer flexible or customisable. Critical.

3) You've limited the fonts available. I use my notebooks to reflect me (as notebooks) not just to record data or clippings. So the ability to personalise fonts is hugely important for me. Critical.

4) You've introduced 'Recent Notes' on the left but with no ability to hide it - so a bit of screen real estate that limits the number of notebooks I can see at once has gone. Same for shortcuts - why can't this go back where it could be - at the top. Highly desirable.

5) You've removed right click from the LH column, but kept the drag and drop behaviour that often resulted in a notebook being moved to a stack where I didn't want it. Missing a trick there - a confirmation would be helpful! I'll live with it

6) We've lost 'Print Preview' so now the only way to preview a note is to save as a PDF via PDF writer. Critical.

7) What's more we now have a fixed format of printed note.. what if I don't WANT the header on the note ( I rarely do, and I had this turned off in preferences)? Critical.

😎 You've added an extra click to the process of viewing an encrypted note. Since the most likely reason for viewing an encrypted note was simply to view it, not remove the encryption, this should have been dealt with a different way.Highly desirable

9) Once decrypted we can't just edit the note. We have to decrypt the lot, then reencrypt it. Really hecking irritating.

This is beyond disastrous. This whole release has just messed up a good product without actually adding anything of value beyond the ability to choose highlighter colour (we can do this but not choose our font?). You've stripped out some of the ease of use features and the things I actually liked. The more I use it, the more I find things that are either missing or have been made worse.

So. I've reverted to 'Legacy' (a tacit acknowledgement that some users are going to be less than happy). I'm currently investigating alternatives to EverNote and will be leaving the paid programme if I don't get some assurances that these things will be fixed. Knowing that this is as good as my primary day to day application is ever going to get is a real downer.

[Apologies if this is in the wrong place but you've got a very dissatisfied paying customer here, and I am not alone]

[logandb 227]

I have been an Evernote user for nearly 10 years now, and I have never posted except to assist other users with problems. 

I do feel as though I need to add my voice to the general dissent, perhaps only as a power user, with version 10.  I tolerated the reduced functionality of the web app and can make do with the current Android app, because I knew I could always go back to the Windows app where I could rapidly initiate searches with [CTRL]-Q, adjust note creation and updated dates, enter and edit note locations (which I do use), construct advanced searches and bulk process notes the way I have been doing for many years now.

Upon installing version 10, I was appalled to find much of this functionality taken away.  Which company has ever released an updated piece of software without a preferences menu and which seems—at a first glance at least—to be laggier than the previous one?  Surely there is a better way to layer a UI to accommodate novice, casual and power users?

Like others I will be clinging desperately and disappointedly to v6.xx until it no longer functions or v10 comes up to a similar level of competency.

Edited October 9, 2020 by logandb
Minor grammatical corrections

[basicchannel 16]

100% agree. Huge disappointment. I'm quite shocked actually at the overall trajectory of the company over the past few years.

Evernote used to be top of the range, pro-user efficient software. Now it feels like third rate bloatware web-app. I really don't see the sense in so many steps being taken backwards.

All my notes look completely different now, that is thousands of days and daily logs all modified or corrupted. Why?

I was glad to find the legacy version was still able to run and download, and when I opened that it was a sigh of relief. it's immediately obvious which one is more usable. Why couldn't they have just introduced the (small) amount of new features for example the extra search options, into what they already have instead of "building from the ground app" an inferior app.

The fact that it doesn't even have preferences is a complete joke, I literally thought I downloaded a corrupt copy or something. Extremely disappointed, I think Evernote need to be taken under new management and leadership, whatever is going on over there isn't working.

Even the promotional video with that pointless awful racket playing over the top, is completely nonsensical. IMO, Evernote was best even before the last version, which I thought was bloating it up unnessecarily adding transparency effects and making the overall interface slower. Can't we just have a stripped back functional note and archive system like we had before, instead of this whatever it is.

[PinkElephant 8,073]

Many things were said here, and they are true.

What I do not understand is why these releases are rushed out as if there is a strong deadline to be met.

Who or what is driving this rally ? Even if some bugs maybe made it through beta undiscovered, what was obvious before rolling out must have been how much is missing from the versions before.

Some of it will never return, but there is much more that is promised, but undelivered. Some more time before rolling out would have allowed to get more stuff done, and release a much sounder 1st edition.

Now we are watching at a torso of the app we knew, and wonder how long it will take to make our workflows operational again.

[Mike P 2,625]

1 hour ago, tommy_ev said:

So I am pretty sure that this media coverage leads to a considerable amount of new users,

But new users bring zero revenue to the company. They have to convert to premium and the premium option is getting less and less attractive. e.g. presentation mode gone, Windows version is just the web in a window so why bother to increase your number of devices count.

 

1 hour ago, tommy_ev said:

All the bigger productivity youtubers and blogs seem to join in the official evernote narrative about a great new era.

The self appointed productivity gurus hate mature products that just do what they are supposed to do. Nothing for them to write about or screencast about. Much better to have a pretty new app that does nothing of any substance  but has three days between new releases. Then every week they can get excited about how it now includes the ability to add commas or some other micro improvement.

[grumpyg4 1]

There is no option to set default font size for new notes !!!

There is nothing under the  "preferences" menu !!!

is this a joke😲

[Dave-in-Decatur 3,938]

@Tim H, I'm with you on about all of this. WRT fonts, see the thread I started in the other v. 10 forum. WRT preferences, this is included in the list of features not yet implemented (see the What's New post). So apparently it will be coming. I'm just not going to update/downgrade until about v. 10.8, if then.

[CalS 5,280]

1 hour ago, JohnnySpice said:

I've upgraded to version 10 and now all of my applescripts don't work. Is this even supported in v10?

Nope.  This is the Windows forum by the way.  Same answer in the Mac forum though.

[add101020 8]

Just the fact that the very common and massively advertised Ctrl + Q search shortcut has been changed destroys so much productivity that the other improvements cannot compensate for it.

Honestly, the developer who came up with this very stupid idea should rather do other tasks.

[TK0047 422]

I really do want to like it and use it. Looks really good cosmetically especially with the dark mode. Card view looks nicer too. 

The ability to TAB your way into different areas of the screen for keyboard shortcuts is great too (although it does not work all the way)

But other than these visuals I cannot really find anything that is working with my workflow. I have almost 29,000 notes so Evernote is a HUGE part of my life, work and personal.

The sluggishness is killing it. I cannot really create notes as fast I used and even when I paste a screenshot into it, I am waiting for the pop up screen to go away. 

My keyboard shortcuts that makes it so fast for me is either mostly gone or does not work all the time. For example, F3 to tag does not work all the time when I am in the note editor. It feels like I could have used a visual upgrade to the 6.25 with the dark mode and some tweaks and would be happy with it. Right now, it again feels like A LOT of features have been removed and what replaced them or what has improved is not really making up for those.

Searching may be faster with recommendations etc. but if the note does not load up as quickly, how good is that? Or if I cannot switch from note to note quickly, again the ability to search faster does not really help. 

I am hoping, this release was partially due to release something to the users who has been waiting for a long time and the updates, features are around the corner. Otherwise, I will have to stick with the legacy version too and may have to start seriously looking into some alternates which really hurts me because I really am a big fan of Evernote for years!

[Dave-in-Decatur 3,938]

Without much enthusiasm, I can say this in their defense: there have been calls, even outcries, for a unified editor and UX across platforms for many years. They took a deep breath and said, OK, we'll rebuild 'er from the ground up. It took longer (of course) than expected. Part of the unification is having the same bugs everywhere. None of the clients (except maybe the Web, which has been the seedbed, and is not expected to have some of the features now missing from the apps) is what it should be at this point. But this is a version of what people have been hollering for.

>> Be careful what you wish for. <<

(Why can I do that here and not in the Windows program?)

[pansovic 68]

5 hours ago, Dave-in-Decatur said:

@Tim H, I'm with you on about all of this. WRT fonts, see the thread I started in the other v. 10 forum. WRT preferences, this is included in the list of features not yet implemented (see the What's New post). So apparently it will be coming. I'm just not going to update/downgrade until about v. 10.8, if then.

"It will be coming" , on something what we already had. Apology, it's too much for me. I am glad others have taken their time to write. I lost my patience. 

[pansovic 68]

3 hours ago, add101020 said:

Just the fact that the very common and massively advertised Ctrl + Q search shortcut has been changed destroys so much productivity that the other improvements cannot compensate for it.

Honestly, the developer who came up with this very stupid idea should rather do other tasks.

Impressive how many users are thinking the same... except for EN management seems to be. 

[pansovic 68]

24 minutes ago, Dave-in-Decatur said:

Without much enthusiasm, I can say this in their defense: there have been calls, even outcries, for a unified editor and UX across platforms for many years. They took a deep breath and said, OK, we'll rebuild 'er from the ground up. It took longer (of course) than expected. Part of the unification is having the same bugs everywhere. None of the clients (except maybe the Web, which has been the seedbed, and is not expected to have some of the features now missing from the apps) is what it should be at this point. But this is a version of what people have been hollering for.

>> Be careful what you wish for. <<

(Why can I do that here and not in the Windows program?)

Not sure if this adds anything. "Be careful what we wish for" Really? 

[PinkElephant 8,073]

Maybe read the ancient story of King Midas:

He wished that everything he touched would convert into pure gold. The gods granted his wish, and he starved to death - because you can’t eat gold.

About the handwriting: This should be possible in all rel. 10 versions by picking a font style in the new formatting menu:

[Coffee First Thing 112]

With a sigh, I reverted to the legacy version of Evernote. I expect Evernote will improve and evolve, but, like others, Evernote 10 was slower on my Windows computer than Evernote 6. I also can't do without the keyboard shortcuts, create a new note and paste text into a note. 

[pansovic 68]

4 hours ago, PinkElephant said:

Maybe read the ancient story of King Midas:

He wished that everything he touched would convert into pure gold. The gods granted his wish, and he starved to death - because you can’t eat gold.

About the handwriting: This should be possible in all rel. 10 versions by picking a font style in the new formatting menu:

Apology, this is my mistake. I had no idea that before downloading the latest version, you had to read first the ancient story of King  Midas to make sense out of this. I thought it is the same as with cars. If you get the latest version, you expect all the same features plus some extra. How stupid of me? Thank you for the enlightenment.

[basicchannel 16]

17 hours ago, Dave-in-Decatur said:

Without much enthusiasm, I can say this in their defense: there have been calls, even outcries, for a unified editor and UX across platforms for many years. They took a deep breath and said, OK, we'll rebuild 'er from the ground up. It took longer (of course) than expected. Part of the unification is having the same bugs everywhere. None of the clients (except maybe the Web, which has been the seedbed, and is not expected to have some of the features now missing from the apps) is what it should be at this point. But this is a version of what people have been hollering for.

>> Be careful what you wish for. <<

(Why can I do that here and not in the Windows program?)

I think it's noble of you to attempt a defence for their update and I would be inclined to agree with you IF what you said was actually so.

Unfortunately, this update does not represent the "unified editor" that people have been calling for. In fact, when one looks at it, there are actually no new features at all. It could be said that the existing features that have always been there, ie checkboxes and bullet points have been made more obvious, and it's easier for a user who is not accustomed to power-search to search by the parameters with the dropdown menu. However all of this functionality has always been there.

What genuine new features have been added? All I can see is features have been taken away. I echo all the other posts who say it's massively slowed them down because you could operate Evernote just with keyboard shortcuts. I spent like half an hour thinking I was going crazy looking to see how I could view it as a top-list view. But apparently that's been taken out?

I dunno, I'm gravely dissappointed by this. PS I'm actually a mac user, but all the same points apply. This was just the first V10 post that I could see, I'm surprised there weren't more reactionary posts.

One of the most serious consequences of this update is, they have effectively changed and re-formated millions of peoples notes with no prior warning or permission. What is going on? The program is slower. Some things are welcome, however I don't see why these updates had to come at the expense of so much. I really think they messed up here, and whoever is leading the project should seriously consider their position. I've heard Evernote hasn't been doing well the last few years, and I fear that these changes have been made in a reactionary way trying to cater to what they believe will orient their product to a more consumer-centric base, like Apple. But at the end of the day, their business comes from us, the majority of which are power users. Alienating core and long-time users is not a good way to grow your business. I feel far less inclined to recommend it as it is now. Similarly I can't see that the changes they've actually made as making Evernote significantly more appealing to newcomers. They keep saying they're going for a cleaner look, but I don't feel like the outcome really matches their stated intention at all. It was a lot cleaner before the redesigns. It was infinitely faster too.

[PinkElephant 8,073]

There are two things we need to understand as users:

• EN management has decided there is no viable way to continue to support the grown ecosystem of 5 independent platforms. What we know as „our“ EN is now vintage, still running but effectively abandoned.
• The „new“ EN has stepped into the light with the release of ver. 10. Soon Android will be added, completing the transition. This is the future for all EN users, like it or not. All new development will start from here, it is a true EN 2.0-moment.

The only link to what has been is that the data structure still allows to use vintage and new clients on the same data base.

With new OS releases the vintage clients will loose operability - probably on some platforms faster, slower on others.

Conclusion: Every User needs to decide if he likes what he gets. There are other apps based on the Electron platform that are successful (see https://www.electronjs.org/ for details).

If yes, anybody of us can abandon the vintage app and make the transition. If not, one needs to look for an alternative.

For the time being, I am sitting on the fence, neither in nor out.

[DTLow 5,736]

29 minutes ago, PinkElephant said:

For the time being, I am sitting on the fence, neither in nor out.

Likewise   
I'm content using the legacy software and have no pressure to switch   
If/when that software no longer functions - I'll have to make a decision.    
Until then - no worries; no angst

[Vstk 33]

I do not like the direction that has been taken at all. So I have cancelled my subscription.

 

The fact that many perfectly sensible feature requests are being ignored was acceptable as long as we could thing the developers' time was being used to improve the software for a new release further down the way. With this release, I can see that this has clearly not been the case.

Lots of resources have been poured into a low performance piece of software. Its main purpose is to be easier to maintain on multiple platforms.

Software should be getting faster, fixing problems and bringing more functionnality to the user with new versions. A different path has been taken here.

[TK0047 422]

16 minutes ago, Vstk said:

Software should be getting faster, fixing problems and bringing more functionality to the user with new versions

Hard to argue with this.

[Dave-in-Decatur 3,938]

1 hour ago, basicchannel said:

I think it's noble of you to attempt a defence for their update and I would be inclined to agree with you IF what you said was actually so.

Unfortunately, this update does not represent the "unified editor" that people have been calling for. In fact, when one looks at it, there are actually no new features at all. It could be said that the existing features that have always been there, ie checkboxes and bullet points have been made more obvious, and it's easier for a user who is not accustomed to power-search to search by the parameters with the dropdown menu. However all of this functionality has always been there.

Let me be clear that I'm not trying to defend v. 10, which is clearly badly borked. But there are a few new things in the editor that people have requested for a long time: styles, more highlight colors, and dark mode come quickly to mind. IMO, these are trivial in comparison with what has been dropped or not yet implemented. But that was my point WRT "be careful what you ask for."

[CalS 5,280]

2 hours ago, basicchannel said:

This was just the first V10 post that I could see, I'm surprised there weren't more reactionary posts.

Go to any of the V10 forums, Windows, Mac or IOS and you will get more posts than you might care to view...

[CalS 5,280]

23 hours ago, PinkElephant said:

There are two things we need to understand as users:

• EN management has decided there is no viable way to continue to support the grown ecosystem of 5 independent platforms. What we know as „our“ EN is now vintage, still running but effectively abandoned.
• The „new“ EN has stepped into the light with the release of ver. 10. Soon Android will be added, completing the transition. This is the future for all EN users, like it or not. All new development will start from here, it is a true EN 2.0-moment.

Sorry, but where is it written that throwing the baby out with the bathwater is the preferred transition path to development utopia?  Nuking what you have and as a byproduct nuking what your customers have is the easy way out. 

There may be one but I have never seen a case where a company goes all 2.0 on everyone and trashes 1.0.  Other than maybe new Coke for those of us old enough to remember that debacle.  

[RJLUK 307]

2 hours ago, PinkElephant said:

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EN management has decided there is no viable way to continue to support the grown ecosystem of 5 independent platforms. What we know as „our“ EN is now vintage, still running but effectively abandoned.

Where did THIS come from? Is it Opinion or the gospel according to EN?

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The „new“ EN has stepped into the light with the release of ver. 10. Soon Android will be added, completing the transition. This is the future for all EN users, like it or not. All new development will start from here, it is a true EN 2.0-moment.

Same - if it IS the official party line 

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Like it or not????

then I suspect EN have just committed commercial suicide.

+ 1 more who has just cancelled their renewal.

[PinkElephant 8,073]

3 minutes ago, rob24hrs said:

+ 1 more who has just cancelled their renewal.

Have you seen the videos about the course EN will take ?

Have you read the blog posts from EN ?

Then you would probably not ask me from where my opinion is created.

I do not say, this is fact, because I could be I am misreading stuff. I do not say all is bad, in fact there are features in the new release I really like. And EN is still fresh in releasing and updating. So we see the first minutes of a film that may reach a happy ending.

What I say is there will be use cases better supported as before, use cases that are neutral - and abandoned use cases. Which is which can only be decided by the owner of the use case.

[RJLUK 307]

5 minutes ago, PinkElephant said:

Have you seen the videos about the course EN will take ?

Have you read the blog posts from EN ?

Then you would probably not ask me from where my opinion is created.

I do not say, this is fact, because I could be I am misreading stuff. I do not say all is bad, in fact there are features in the new release I really like. And EN is still fresh in releasing and updating. So we see the first minutes of a film that may reach a happy ending.

What I say is there will be use cases better supported as before, use cases that are neutral - and abandoned use cases. Which is which can only be decided by the owner of the use case.

Oddly EN is a tool I use as part of my life,so I do not spend my life reading everything EN publish online. I actually have a life.....

As a company SELLING a service EN had a few simple tasks to carry out and have had over a year to do so:

1. Make features available on one operating system available on all -=they have not.

2. Read their own forum and try and provide features requested by many over last ten years-=failed.

3. Retain existing features, some of which will have been reason some paying customers bought into system -=failed they have actually removed some features.

4. Give the people what they want not what EN THINK they want -=marketing disaster.

The Tsunami is about to hit......

[Dave-in-Decatur 3,938]

1 hour ago, rob24hrs said:

As a company SELLING a service EN had a few simple tasks to carry out and have had over a year to do so:

1. Make features available on one operating system available on all -=they have not.

2. Read their own forum and try and provide features requested by many over last ten years-=failed.

3. Retain existing features, some of which will have been reason some paying customers bought into system -=failed they have actually removed some features.

4. Give the people what they want not what EN THINK they want -=marketing disaster.

I'm fortunate to still be on Windows 7, and therefore not even eligible to join in the update/downgrade catastrophe. But I do think that, to be fair, and no matter how annoyed one is, you might explain what it is about task #1 that seems simple to you (my highlighting)! OSes rather like to be special and inimitable, which tends to limit cross-platform uniformity. Evernote 10 for Windows is a fumble, that seems clear, but I don't necessarily think they fumbled something easy.

[s2sailor 2,183]

3 hours ago, Vstk said:

Software should be getting faster, fixing problems and bringing more functionnality to the user with new versions.

Well, that is just crazy talk.  I guess you haven't been with Evernote long 😃. 

Sorry, couldn't resist, but this does seem to be their norm.  I'll never understand why, but EN consistently shoots themselves in the foot when it comes to customer communication.  With Ian's development videos I was hopeful that would change, but I guess not.  Who releases a new software "update" that has major changes and removed function without first setting customer expectations?  A little transparency by Evernote to their existing customer base on the changes, before pushing out the new versions, should have been done.  I'm sure there are many customers out there that have "upgraded" and are now experiencing WTF moments of discovery.

[Tim H 37]

11 hours ago, s2sailor said:

I'll never understand why, but EN consistently shoots themselves in the foot when it comes to customer communication.  With Ian's development videos I was hopeful that would change, but I guess not.  Who releases a new software "update" that has major changes and removed function without first setting customer expectations?  A little transparency by Evernote to their existing customer base on the changes, before pushing out the new versions, should have been done.  I'm sure there are many customers out there that have "upgraded" and are now experiencing WTF moments of discovery.

I agree - setting customer expectations is huge. Looking at the announcement again, it all sounds marvellous:

	Find it faster Get the information you need, quicker than ever with our new, smarter search.
	Your words, your way Give shape to your ideas with more control over formatting and appearance.
	Distraction-free note-taking Keep the focus on your ideas thanks to a cleaner, more intuitive interface.
	New, stronger foundation Enjoy peace of mind with background sync and automated app updates. The reality: Find it faster But it seems that they have drastically reduced the speed of search - it may be more intuitive, but it's slower. (Although at least when you search you are able to search the entire system not just the current notebook so that's a win). Your words, your way I have far less control over formatting and appearance than I did before - there are some nice little extras in there, but the control I had has gone in order to make notes consistent (if I want that, then I will choose how *I* format them, not be forced into a limited subset of options by a developer). Distraction-free note-taking Well perhaps, but they've still sacrificed precious screen real estate with a list of recent notes and shortcuts that makes it harder to find what I really want. I think the previous interface was pretty distraction free. Like the dark theme though. New, stronger foundation I think they've done that, for sure, but at what cost? Background sync? We had that. What they MEAN is that they've removed any option to 'Sync Now'. Automated app updates? Previously, I got a message, I decided whether to update or skip that update. Peace of mind? Well, think that disappeared....along, of course, with my backup process that relied on ENscript.

[tommy_ev 4]

13 hours ago, PinkElephant said:

What I do not understand is why these releases are rushed out as if there is a strong deadline to be met.

Could it be related to polishing some performance parameter for the fiscal year?

Such a big release gets lots of attention and most reviews I read and watched seem to praise the new version (mostly nearly literal copies from the evernote release pages). I recently even saw it being discussed in a few major German newspapers, which is quite rare.

So I am pretty sure that this media coverage leads to a considerable amount of new users, even though the release is a disappointment for long timers.

Just my two cents, but this might be their strategy.

Best regards.

PS. I would be really interested in seeing a serious rewiew somewhere, where these issues are addressed. Up to now, the only place I found complaints are in this forum and on reddit. All the bigger productivity youtubers and blogs seem to join in the official evernote narrative about a great new era.

[DMiddleton 302]

20 minutes ago, Mike P said:

The self appointed productivity gurus hate mature products that just do what they are supposed to do. Nothing for them to write about or screencast about. Much better to have a pretty new app that does nothing of any substance  but has three days between new releases. Then every week they can get excited about how it now includes the ability to add commas or some other micro improvement.

This is so true, I literally just watched a vid on YouTube on the Keep Productive channel and it was almost just an advert for the new version, no critique at all or mention of the removal of ANY features.

[PinkElephant 8,073]

2 hours ago, DMiddleton said:

This is so true, I literally just watched a vid on YouTube on the Keep Productive channel and it was almost just an advert for the new version, no critique at all or mention of the removal of ANY features.

When this interview was recorded, the new release was not yet in the open.

But I agree: It was tame, it was by no way telling what was about to happen, and important questions were left waiting on the sideline.

What bothers me more is there is practically no communication from the top. The next clients are rolled out silently, one after the other, each one getting the same barrage of "feedback" as the versions before.

For me the important question is now how fast the bugs get fixed, and key missing functions released.

[CalS 5,280]

Out of interest, anyone ever seen a trade video or interview where whoever was doing it actually understood the product.  Mostly pablum in my experiences.  🤷‍♂️

[PinkElephant 8,073]

1 hour ago, CalS said:

Out of interest, anyone ever seen a trade video or interview where whoever was doing it actually understood the product.  Mostly pablum in my experiences.  🤷‍♂️

No, I would not say so. There are some that really try to help and work out the essential issues. Or simply split a complex issue up into its pieces and work through one by one.

But it is true: They are buried under many more that just swim on a wave making "informed entertainment", or want to push products. Interestingly there was few Evernote-related content posted in the last 12 month - which is telling in itself.

I have a feeling this is going to change - but probably with titles like "Fed up with EN ? - want to move to XXX - here is how !". 

[DMiddleton 302]

2 hours ago, PinkElephant said:

When this interview was recorded, the new release was not yet in the open.

Yeah, maybe he recorded it in advance, but he also says he was part of the beta so he must have been aware of the state of things, and he also did an interview with Ian Small days earlier so probably didn't want to be too negative about it.

 

2 hours ago, CalS said:

Out of interest, anyone ever seen a trade video or interview where whoever was doing it actually understood the product.  Mostly pablum in my experiences.  🤷‍♂️

Like you say most are, I would say with the exception of Marie Poulin who knows Notion inside out. But there do seem to be a LOT of 'Productivity Vloggers' nowadays who just seem to give overviews jumping on the bandwagon. 

[RJLUK 307]

22 hours ago, Dave-in-Decatur said:

But I do think that, to be fair, and no matter how annoyed one is, you might explain what it is about task #1 that seems simple to you (my highlighting)! OSes rather like to be special and inimitable, which tends to limit cross-platform uniformity. ............ I don't necessarily think they fumbled something easy.

Should be simple ( ok lets called it less than a challenge) to a competent coding team who are familiar with EN.

If you want to service and overhaul a Jaguar you do not ask a team of apprentices who may have worked on fords to come along and remove the headlights and cruise control.....

Then tell owners the Highlights and cruise control were removed without seeking opinion or giving an explanation.

[Dave-in-Decatur 3,938]

On 10/8/2020 at 12:22 PM, basicchannel said:

All my notes look completely different now, that is thousands of days and daily logs all modified or corrupted. Why?

Can you say more about this? Are you saying that when you open an existing note in the new program, it automatically converts the fonts in the note to the new, limited font selection??  That would be truly appalling.

[Michel VB 0]

I can just agree with most of what has been said ... including the fact that you cannot change the language of the interface.

This version is a step back, not forward.

Seriously considering switching to another notes app ...

Is there any place where the previous version can be downloaded and re-installed ?

[Doministry 23]

5 hours ago, Michel VB said:

I can just agree with most of what has been said ... including the fact that you cannot change the language of the interface.

This version is a step back, not forward.

Seriously considering switching to another notes app ...

Is there any place where the previous version can be downloaded and re-installed ?

Here is a link to 6.21 for ya.

After installing, the app will probably give you option for the update to 6.25.

https://we.tl/t-r6lEYzuBPy

So, do we know developers actually care?

I am so mad right now. I use Evernote for a decade or so, and it's the first time I am actually so negative.

Missing:

1. Full light mode

2. Manual Sync

3. Shortcut buttons

4. SETTINGS - have you ever seen an app without settings?!?!

5. Options for shortcuts etc.

6. REMEMBERING the sizes of the columns of the GUI!!!

 

[PinkElephant 8,073]

https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/360052560314-Install-an-older-version-of-Evernote

[BenBo 9]

I just barely stepped into this mess today.

Most of these posts are ~2 months old now.... are they really not bringing back the Sync button?? 🥶