All In With Evernote!

[Robejazz 4]

Good Day All,

i am ready to go back to being all in with Evernote. I’ve always liked the product and nothing else is quite like it. I have a couple of questions; sorry if some have been answered already - a lot of negativity in this forum that I’d like to avoid  

1. I used to keep my files in Evernote. Mostly my teaching lessons etc…. Is that still a good idea. How many of you keep a lot of files in Evernote ?  I mean working files…..

2. Assuming I keep my files in Evernote - what’s the best way to back up and have my stuff local as a back up ?

 

thank you 

[buckethead 221]

1 hour ago, Robejazz said:

1. I used to keep my files in Evernote. Mostly my teaching lessons etc…. Is that still a good idea. How many of you keep a lot of files in Evernote ?  I mean working files…..

 

I use Evernote for work as well as personal. I keep things separate using Stacks. The work side is pretty much 90% pdf files of teaching resources. The web clipper is awesome for grabbing files when looking for new resources. I think it is a great idea for keeping files in EN as the search is great and I am able to dump all the files into a single folder. I organize by tag so I make sure I tag every resource I save.

 

1 hour ago, Robejazz said:

2. Assuming I keep my files in Evernote - what’s the best way to back up and have my stuff local as a back up ?

I just export .enex files per folder once a year for backups. 

[gazumped 12,078]

Just for contrast,  I keep all my detailed information in Evernote;  I file by notebook in that all my contacts,  suppliers,  projects and topics have their own notebook and anything to do with each matter is stored there.  There are overlaps,  which is what I use tags for,  and my note titles are in the standard form <date><type><detail><keywords> where <date> is the date of the meeting / letter / phone call to which the note relates in yyyymmdd format for sorting into a time line <type> adds the meeting / letter / phone call information and <detail> identifies the name of the individual or company involved.  Keywords are whatever occurs to me at the time.

I use Stacks to split home and work details and surprisingly -to me anyway- less than 500 notebooks with this system.  The major downside being that backups need to be on a notebook-by-notebook basis and the process is not for the faint hearted.  I use Backupery which is another subscription,  but can be left to run in the background once per week.

Despite all the wailing and breast-beating in other threads here I've used Evernote for 15 years or so and not had any major issues.  I'm using Windows 10 & 11 on two Dells - a laptop and desktop - and a Samsung tablet.  As of now I have around 63K notes with reasonably fast response times.

[s2sailor 2,458]

25 minutes ago, buckethead said:

I just export .enex files per folder once a year for backups. 

I do this weekly using Evernote-backup code on GitHub.

[Mike P 2,987]

1 hour ago, Robejazz said:

2. Assuming I keep my files in Evernote - what’s the best way to back up and have my stuff local as a back up ?

There is no obvious way of downloading all the attached files from a selection of notes, if that is something you might want to do. However, if you export as html (single web page) all the attachments are placed in a folder with their original file names.

[Robejazz 4]

I figured I’d reach out again and get some fresh thoughts on this. Anyone all in as a  file manager with Evernote ?

[s2sailor 2,458]

15 minutes ago, Robejazz said:

Anyone all in as a  file manager with Evernote ?

Not me, at least until they add multi-selection actions and a way to filter out all of the non-file files that get picked up when you do web clipping.

[bmcl26 580]

I have not yet found a practical use for it.

[PinkElephant 8,846]

The Files option as it is today is useless. This starts with a very long wait until it even shows files, followed by the lack of any handling / sorting options.

What I do use is notes that hold files and related information. That is very useful.

[tired and disappointed 669]

And even with this very limited functionality they managed to make it buggy: Setting for "show file size" is gone next time you open the files section.

[tired and disappointed 669]

32 minutes ago, janndk said:

And even with this very limited functionality they managed to make it buggy: Setting for "show file size" is gone next time you open the files section.

ticket #3902781

[mackid1993 1,312]

10 hours ago, PinkElephant said:

The Files option as it is today is useless. This starts with a very long wait until it even shows files, followed by the lack of any handling / sorting options.

What I do use is notes that hold files and related information. That is very useful.

I find that it'll say x number of files but will actually display far less than it is listing exist. Currently it's useless. I can see with refinement it being useful.

[dbvirago 536]

On 1/16/2024 at 8:18 AM, Robejazz said:

Good Day All,

i am ready to go back to being all in with Evernote. I’ve always liked the product and nothing else is quite like it. I have a couple of questions; sorry if some have been answered already - a lot of negativity in this forum that I’d like to avoid  

1. I used to keep my files in Evernote. Mostly my teaching lessons etc…. Is that still a good idea. How many of you keep a lot of files in Evernote ?  I mean working files…..

2. Assuming I keep my files in Evernote - what’s the best way to back up and have my stuff local as a back up ?

 

thank you 

I don't use it day to day as much as I used to and not at all on mobile, but I still keep everything in there for archival purposes.

Instead of thinking about backup, put your stuff on the local drive into a default folder and let Evernote upload it. That way, you have your 'backup' in advance. 

[tired and disappointed 669]

20 hours ago, janndk said:

ticket #3902781

"Hello there,

Thank you for reporting this bug... we're not able to follow up on every individual bug report...

Kind regards,
Evernote Support Team"

[ferol 530]

5 hours ago, janndk said:

"Hello there,

Thank you for reporting this bug... we're not able to follow up on every individual bug report...

Kind regards,
Evernote Support Team"

This is a super positive response....

[gazumped 12,078]

Seems likely that several users reported the issue and while it will get fixed when they can,  they're not planning to advise each individual of their progress.