Sukjoon Kim 1 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 In original Evernote, when i move a note from one notebook to another notebook, no change on "Updated date". But in a new Evernote, when I move a note, just move a note, the Update date also changed. Is it a feature or fixed problem? I'd like to restore the old feature: When I just move a note between notebooks, it's not an update! So, When i move a note, or when i tag a note, It SHOULD NOT update the update date! I hope It's ready in a near future. 1 Link to comment
0 snovvman 0 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 I too, would like to be able to move notes between notebooks and add/remove tags without changing the modified date. I sort using the modified date and want to be able to freely reorganize notes without changing the sort order. Link to comment
0 Level 5* CalS 4,978 Posted January 8, 2021 Level 5* Share Posted January 8, 2021 Do changing tags change the update date as well? That didn't happen in the past. Link to comment
0 Jammurr 0 Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 It is ludicrous that organising notes by moving folders and tagging is updating the note edit date - this needs to be changed to "the old way" so that only editing (not reorganising) notes changes the edit date. I can see no reason for the new way to be the intended way of it working, must be a bug...? p.s. I moved a five year old note into a new folder structure and suddenly it is top of the list..... not what I wanted to happen! Link to comment
0 Pere 23 Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 This is a problem for me too. I want to reorganize notes without changing their "date updated", as the contents of the note don't change when filling them into a new folder. Link to comment
0 Level 5* DTLow 5,625 Posted June 17, 2021 Level 5* Share Posted June 17, 2021 On 6/17/2021 at 7:36 AM, Pere said: This is a problem for me too. I want to reorganize notes without changing their "date updated", as the contents of the note don't change when filling them into a new folder. Imho Any update should result in the "date updated" being changed fwiw I prefix the note titles with the subject date, for example 2021-06-20 Receipt [Groceries] ... Link to comment
0 JanLmns 0 Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 @DTLow Your prefix suggestion is an unworkable hack, going against the ease-of-use of Evernote. - Any content change in a note should trigger the update date to change - Any metadata change should NOT trigger an update date refresh - categorisations , folders, labels, etc. Looks like majority of people in this thread are of this advise. Usability of Evernote has seriously dropped for me since this regression : any reorg of my notes breaks the history. Last update date is an important element of a note : "When was I working on that topic", or "when did I last speak with that person". But when I move older notes in a separate folder, all this info is lost, forcing me to explicitly write down dates in the note itself ... not a good workflow ! Link to comment
0 Level 5* DTLow 5,625 Posted June 20, 2021 Level 5* Share Posted June 20, 2021 10 hours ago, JanLmns said: Any metadata change should NOT trigger an update date refresh .. Are you aware Note Title is a metadata item? Link to comment
0 Level 5 PinkElephant 4,041 Posted June 20, 2021 Level 5 Share Posted June 20, 2021 IMHO this whole thread is pretty pointless: There can’t be a million different definitions of “update”. A note is touched, edited, moved, whatsoever. And this means updated in the broadest sense of it. If you imagine a table of all different actions, and add a switch to define whether it should update the date or not, it is obvious that the combination of possible on/off choices grows beyond all reasonable means. It really makes no sense at all … and is often the result of (instead of accepting it is a system defined field under system control) building complex systems around these dates. My advise: Go and use tasks in the future for targeted actions, let the system default fields like creation and modified untouched. Link to comment
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Sukjoon Kim 1
In original Evernote, when i move a note from one notebook to another notebook, no change on "Updated date".
But in a new Evernote, when I move a note, just move a note, the Update date also changed.
Is it a feature or fixed problem?
I'd like to restore the old feature: When I just move a note between notebooks, it's not an update!
So, When i move a note, or when i tag a note, It SHOULD NOT update the update date!
I hope It's ready in a near future.
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