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Guys, I agree with you all.. Evernote is simple... But this Obsidian just doesn't do it for me (see screenshot from the note) . I've been struggling since yesterday, the note is from September last year, when I was working on v.10 I come across this a few times a week... I'll probably never see that 2 attachments again... The simplicity just has to work, but it doesn't work for me anymore... And believe it or not, this is why my wife is bugging me, why she doesn't have the notes she made... anyway colleagues. so I'm going to set up Obsidian and keep it all under control remotely via Dropbox, as I open the exact same thing for myself and if there's a problem, I know I'll fix it... As long as I have access to everything.

What app version are you using? I'm on Win 11 using the direct download, not the version from the Windows app-store and it doesn't ask for permissions.

Finding and moving to Obsidian and finding it overall superior to my needs, wants, and preferences... I agree with this take. Unfortunately (or perhaps, fortunately) I could never get my wife to join Evernote (even though I still maintain it would be awesome for her).

Are you just coming to v10 from legacy (like within the last 2 months)? I believe that v10 used to be a lot better in this regard --- prior to the UI-revamp that was done back in January/February. Anyway, I'm thinking the same thing as you about v10 now, but I also think that it used to be better.

Yeah - that was me to. I've never even needed support before and so the lack of it hasn't been any different to me except that I worried a bit about what the impact would be to me if I ever was unable to access my notes (outside of the periodic backups/exports that I do). Bending Spoons must be saving millions of € on the reduced/restructured support staff. I'm just in the peanut gallery, but I'd guess that them reducing the size of their support staff and turning the free plan into more of a trial went hand-in-hand. Think of the (tens of) millions of free users that got account-level support for free. BS don't need to support those people as much because lots of them are leaving. I suspect they are hoping that the drop-off of non-paying customers will help them get on top of support issues for those that are paying. This is also maybe a hot take here, but for non-account level types of support (log in, billing, etc), I wonder if 90% of that non-account level support needs are taken up by 2% of the user base... and they wouldn't mind if that 2% gets fed up with lack of support and leaves.

I think of it more as a current unfortunate situation that hopefully will be fixed soon.

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I think you are going to be a little more clear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA I don't understand this either. Whih three dots, where? Although search has some major problems, normal text searches and searches containing advanced search syntax seem to work fine for me.

I was about to make a similar post. I agree 100% with the OP. The new UI, where everything blends into the same light or dark color, is hard to read and just poor design. It makes it hard to distinguish between different sections, reducing the overall clarity and usability. A good UI should have clear visual separation between functional areas, making navigation intuitive and efficient. The legacy version handled this well; v10 completely lacks it. It would be great if the developers could simply include some UI customization options.

I use to WIN+SHIFT+F to find anything, sometimes adding [intitle:"whatever"]. Now, I am not able to find anything I was able to before updates. The IA shows always wrong results, then I press three dots options to show regular search results but the search words changes. Example I search for [intitle:Manual intitle:msi] and in the regular search box I find [Manual OR MSI] withouth the intitle and without the AND. If I change it, it wil start over the loop. Help please.

Totally agree. Its a bastardisation of all sorts of bits of code from all over the place. Mind you the Obsidian developers are onto a good thing as other folk are building the functionality for them for free and they just sell sync services with a small team and less overheads. Maybe they're onto something 😁

It is indeed a unique business model. And yet, somehow, we put up with it. For me, it's the path of least resistance -- migrating to a new app would just be too much onerous work. Just keeping my fingers crossed that I'll never actually NEED support, as I know I'm unlikely to get it...

This discussion nicely illustrates why we stick to Evernote. Obsidian appears to be quite delicate and reliant on numerous plugins, customized / hacked to individual preferences. While I might personally choose this approach, it’s crucial that our notes remain accessible to my wife without requiring my assistance. She needs a straightforward and user-friendly tool, it's a little bit like linux vs mac-OS...

Or continue this discussion on an Obsidian forum.

This is a user community. Have you submitted a support request at all? The issue you describe is not something I've seen myself so there maybe something that needs resetting on the Evernote side. Support should help.

I decided to just download the latest installer and reinstall and that did the trick. All my notes appeared as expected. I suspect that a recent update went wrong.

The NuGet package is not maintained in 10 years. The Login Dialog is poulated from the Evernote server. I guess that is broken. Is there an API to connect to the Evernote client on Windows?

I wonder what the point is of a note taking app that loses the contents of the notes. Now every time I use this app I am afraid I will lose my valuable data. This forum is hosted by the Evernote team, I came in with a legitimate problem and received no official support, not even an “we're sorry” or any kind of action from their side. My next notebook will be stored somewhere else, goodbye Evernote!

Who knows. Reading does not necessarily mean they will do something about it - either because they deem it to be low priority or they actively don't want to change it. Sometimes, but very rarely these days, they will even respond to issues raised in the forums.

Done. But do BS actually read that feedback?

Evernote releases frequent updates and requires admin rights to install. Any way to update without admin access

Very helpful - thank you.

Hi. You have a highly specific request which I don't recall seeing before. Evernote haven't mentioned any features in development which might satisfy your need, and offhand I can't think of an easy way to generate an alternative. The closest suggestion would be to insert a link to a footnote using the table of contents feature, or link to an external note containing the extra comments. You could certainly feed this suggestion back to Evernote, or contact Support to request its addition, but don't expect changes to happen overnight...

Different users share the same client and install, but run on their own database each. It depends on the root cause: If something is wrong with the install, it will carry over. If it is within the database, the new user will do ok

Interesting, I'm looking forward to reading more. And if anyone from Bending Spoon is reading the forum: I appreciate BS's work, and I understand that no company will be able to fulfil all user requests (especially not immediately 😃)