Why did you remove Context?

[Missing Context 18]

Why did you remove Context? That was a Premium feature!

[weidnet 10]

Same question: Why was this amazingly useful function removed.  Do you plan to restore it eventually?  

[Allexx 4]

On 10/10/2020 at 3:38 AM, Missing Context said:

Why did you remove Context? That was a Premium feature!

Same question:  do you plan to restore  premium Context feature?!!  

[eridanos 6]

Same question. Do you plan to restore “Context” / “Related Notes”? You can’t be removing features we rely upon and act like we won’t notice. Do let us know ASAP. It’s a big reason why I pay for premium. 

[vizhu 1]

I’m paying for premium mostly only for context feature. Is that a bug that disappeared or intentionally? 

[Peter Olins 42]

On 12/3/2020 at 6:43 AM, vizhu said:

Is that a bug that disappeared or intentionally? 

This pretty much sums up all my questions about the myriad lost features and hobbled performance of the new version of EN.

Perhaps the majority of the reported quarter billion (!) EN users are simple note-takers and haven't noticed the difference?

[krzyskk 2]

Do you think that there is any chance to restore the context? Why there is no official information about removing the context? This is something I pay for and should not be removed overnight.

[PinkElephant 2,015]

Anybody who can read should have a look at the support documents for the different clients. They don’t say in each detail what will stay, and what was abandoned, but it clearly states 4 discontinued items:

• no more local notebooks
• no more presentation mode
• no more Evernote-Special-Edition-Scanner support
• no more context

This means context is gone because it was decided to remove it, and it will not come back. This is not difficult to understand, although maybe hard to take.

[Andrea Beltran 1]

Bye, bye, Evernote.

[Missing Context 18]

On 12/4/2020 at 2:59 PM, PinkElephant said:

Anybody who can read should have a look at the support documents for the different clients. They don’t say in each detail what will stay, and what was abandoned, but it clearly states 4 discontinued items:

• no more local notebooks
• no more presentation mode
• no more Evernote-Special-Edition-Scanner support
• no more context

This means context is gone because it was decided to remove it, and it will not come back. This is not difficult to understand, although maybe hard to take.

I understand that is was intentionally dropped. 

My question remains: Why remove Context, a Premium feature? 

[PinkElephant 2,015]

You will most likely get no answer here. This is a user forum.

[Missing Context 18]

7 hours ago, PinkElephant said:

You will most likely get no answer here. This is a user forum.

I agree, probably not. But I would hope that someone at Evernote reads a forum under their section of "Product Feedback/Feature Requests". I suspect there are many subscribers who also wonder why such a useful feature has been dropped, that are unaware of this forum. Knowing why could help in possibly accepting the change, or at least understanding it. Is it simply not technologically feasible under the new system? Too expensive to maintain its bandwidth or CPU requirements? (I'm grasping at straws here, trying to imagine some reason.) Why remove a feature that gives Evernote an advantage over competing products? Did they think no one cared about it?

It is my hope that this thread may show some evidence that some of us do value the Context feature highly, and that by extrapolation, Evernote may understand that this thread probably represents a tiny fraction of the total number of disappointed users. Just how disappointed I will be depends on why the Context feature was dropped. 

[eridanos 6]

I have made a pledge to myself that I’ll stop paying for Premium subscription if the Context / Related Notes feature won’t come back by mid April 2021. Having more than 4,000 notes in my notebooks, discoverability of the past ones becomes an issue. I can’t imagine how a professional note taking service like Evernote has decided to drop such an advanced feature in favour of silly others, like integration with Apple Watch. I’m fuming really. Also, not only they dropped the feature but they have been reluctant in clarifying if it’s ever going to come back or not. I guess they hope we will just forget and move on. If the issue is purely a matter of computational cost vs % of users actually using the feature, then just make it an opt-in feature! Problem solved. 

[NoteTakingBoss 0]

On 12/3/2020 at 7:43 AM, vizhu said:

I’m paying for premium mostly only for context feature. Is that a bug that disappeared or intentionally? 

Same here.. it was intentionally removed, but I don't know why, or if it is coming back, but there goes my premium subscription until it's back

[NoteTakingBoss 0]

The really mystifying thing is that context still shows up on the google home page when I search google.. 

How hard is it to put those results in the app? But.. here's my lame hack in the mean time:

Copy/paste the entire content of the note you're working on into the google search bar and hit search. then open Evernote, resize the window to the left part of the screen and voila! Context/Related Notes again on the right side of your screen/Evernote! If you have a dual monitor setup, just put it on your second desktop. It works good, but you have to manually update it of course.. I'm relegated to this I guess until Evernote gets off their ***.

[weidnet 10]

The Context feature continued to work with the legacy app on the Mac ... UNTIL a couple of weeks ago, when it disappeared altogether, everywhere. I realize that Evernote managers can't monitor all of the complaints in user forums (and they certainly rarely respond), but has anyone found a way to let a human being at Evernote know about features that are missed? Even a simple response would be helpful: "No, sorry, we are unlikely ever to restore that premium feature." 

[PinkElephant 2,015]

They said with the release notes for v10 that it was removed and will not return. Clear enough !

If you want to send your message directly, you can use the feedback function which was introduced with v10. There will be no answer, but they promised to read it all.

Or send a support ticket, which for missing features probably will only confirm that the feature was indeed removed.

Sometimes facts tell more than stories can tell.

[weidnet 10]

Thanks, Pink Elephant. I didn't notice the mention of the demise in the release notes.  Too bad; context was useful ... and fun.

[RMMM 2]

There's a danger to using  a commercial application like Evernote for something that's fundamental and permanent in your life. This is a prime example why. Evernote 10 has been pretty bad experience so far. The only hope Evernote users have is that over time, its deficiencies will be mitigated.

Perhaps the Context feature was deemed to be too difficult to implement, so was dropped in the transition. Perhaps it was simply a whim of the Evernote management or development team. One can hope that perhaps features like Context will be reinstated when the Evernote management or development team is gripped by another, opposite, whim. But that's only a hope.

To my knowledge, the open source alternatives to Evernote are not very compelling so far, but that could change very quickly with the right support.

[weidnet 10]

Amazingly, the Context feature reappeared this week (at least using theMac legacy client).  Maybe not for long, but still an interesting development. 

[PinkElephant 2,015]

From legacy context was never removed.

It is still (and will for the future) be missing from v10.

[keroan 0]

For whatever it's worth, here comes another user desperately missing the Context function, the main reason why I went Premium...