John G 415 1 Posted October 24, 2022 Share Posted October 24, 2022 This morning when I went to create a notebook I was surprised and a little disappointed to receive a notification that I reach my notebook limit I have a Evernote Professional Account and I've been a subscriber since 2011. I'm hoping this is just a temporary glitch Has anybody else experience this issue? If yes, wondered how you have resolved it I just installed the update this morning. I'm hoping this is not a feature of the update Thanks in advance, John Link to comment
Level 5 PinkElephant 6,749 Posted October 24, 2022 Level 5 Share Posted October 24, 2022 Notebook limit …. OK, I assume you are a „notebooker“, not a „tagger“. The limit is 1.000 notebooks for subscribers (250 for Free, 10.000 for Teams). You probably will have to merge some of your existing notebooks. Maybe an excellent moment to explore the beauty and usefulness of tags, I would like to add. https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/209005247 Link to comment
John G 415 1 Posted October 24, 2022 Author Share Posted October 24, 2022 Thanks - I have a professional account = 1000 How will I find out how many I have? Link to comment
Level 5 PinkElephant 6,749 Posted October 24, 2022 Level 5 Share Posted October 24, 2022 When you go to notebook view, it will tell how many notebooks there are. Here a screenshot from my iPads client: Link to comment
Level 5* gazumped 10,706 Posted October 24, 2022 Level 5* Share Posted October 24, 2022 Wow - I lived for a long while with about 5 notebooks. 99% of my notes were in one humungous steaming pile, with the outliers being just shared notes and work in progress. Then the convenience of the work-in-progress notes suggested that maybe I should keep all my notes in 'themed' notebooks - if I keep all my Amazon receipts and deliveries together forinstance I can immediately find the latest purchase by just clicking (or searching) the notebook name. So I threw caution to the winds and started making notebooks for my contacts (both company and personal), my projects, and various apps that I installed. I've done that for a few years now, and I still have less than 400 notebooks. Either you have a very active life, or you might want to look into how you assign notes to notebooks. We'll have to leave you to decide how to go about it, but there must be some way to merge notebooks / archive old notes / use tags rather than notebook names to get some headroom. Link to comment
John G 415 1 Posted October 24, 2022 Author Share Posted October 24, 2022 Thanks for the comments. I just checked I have 1000 notebooks I'm sure there are some workarounds but I'm reluctant to do this - I have a good workflow for my new and past projects using notebooks, also for me more fundamental is that I'm paying for a premium service for a solution that is meant to make my life easier managing information. I'm waiting for a response from Evernote support, I would be interested to hear the justification for this limit 1 Link to comment
Level 5* gazumped 10,706 Posted October 24, 2022 Level 5* Share Posted October 24, 2022 Evernote might review the limit - it used to be 250 notebooks for everyone. Eventually I guess they need some kind of a limit to budget for how much storage space they need to provide for users. I have no idea what (if any) effect adding more notebooks does to an account's architecture, but inevitably it's going to take some time to make any changes. Short term you might consider a second account to hold 'new' notebooks? Link to comment
Level 5 PinkElephant 6,749 Posted October 24, 2022 Level 5 Share Posted October 24, 2022 Personally I wouldn’t expect any changes to the limit. If I look at the forum, I can’t remember a significant number of posts about the notebook limit. About the individual note size there were some, mainly related to storing video. It may be that the thread owner has a workflow that suits him and his needs to store information in a certain way. It is obvious that this method is not supported any further when the notebook limit is reached. The classical solution would be to create a notebook (ONE notebook) for finalized projects, and move the content of a project notebook there once the project is terminated. Before dissolving the notebook, all notes inside receive a tag designating the project, plus tags like the year, the client, the subject, and a closed/archived tag. The later allows to exclude these notes from searches. Using such an archive is. I issue, because the original notebook can be recreated easily from the tagged archive notes. Or (plan B ) switch to another solution. Link to comment
donquotee 0 Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 Along the same lines for size, how long can an individual note be? Link to comment
donquotee 0 Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 i see this is answered in the link above by PinkElephant. thanks Link to comment
Evernote Staff* Scott T. 662 Posted October 25, 2022 Evernote Staff* Share Posted October 25, 2022 FYI, here are the limits based on account type. Link to comment
Level 5 PinkElephant 6,749 Posted October 25, 2022 Level 5 Share Posted October 25, 2022 Before you are allowed to join the Order of the Chosen Ones you need to write 100 times, long hand, neat and legible: Thou shall use tags, and notebooks were created by the long horned Thou shall use tags, and notebooks were created by the long horned Thou shall use tags, and notebooks were created by the long horned Thou shall use tags, and notebooks were created by the long horned …. This document of insight into the highest secrets of the order is to be signed using the civil and the secret name of the novice, and will be sunk into the deepest server vault, guarded by the task-fletching WorkChat hound. Then he awoke and started to merge and delete his notebooks. Happy tagging everafter ! Link to comment
Level 5 Dave-in-Decatur 2,886 Posted October 26, 2022 Level 5 Share Posted October 26, 2022 Writing 100 times.... I will not get into the notebooks vs tags argument I will not get into the notebooks vs tags argument I will not get into the notebooks vs tags argument I will not get into the notebooks vs tags argument 1 1 Link to comment
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