Why did you remove Context?

[Missing Context 13]

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

[weidnet 7]

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

[Allexx 3]

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 5]

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. 

[krzyskk 1]

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.

[vizhu 1]

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

[Peter Olins 24]

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?

[PinkElephant 1,381]

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 13]

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? 

[Missing Context 13]

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 5]

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. 

[PinkElephant 1,381]

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

[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 ***.