Anklebuster

9 hours ago, A brother in Christ said:

Thanks! Workona will definitely be useful. The reason I clip so many web pages is because many change or go missing. I also like the idea of having my own archive of information at my disposal in case my internet goes down for an extended period of time (I live in rural GA and that has happened a couple times). I know there's the Waybackmachine, which is helpful, but having Evernote is like my own little intranet where I can search only things I've deemed notable and will probably want to reference again. I tried just saving web pages to my hard drive but that became really cumbersome.

You're welcome. Don't get me wrong, I loved clipping web pages. I abused it. Where I got into trouble is that retention is exactly the wrong thing for my field: software. I don't know how many obsolete web pages I have archived: Excel 2010, Windows 7 Hacks, Templates for Evernote...sigh.

At the end of the day, each of us evolves to adapt to our digital diets. Good luck with yours!

18 minutes ago, A brother in Christ said:

I have no option but to work this way since I'm constantly researching, writing, editing, and jumping from task to task to task. I have to force myself to close all my browser windows sometimes and say, "Enough!" This really shouldn't be that much of a problem these days. Memory management has been a thing for a long time now. It seems software companies are more and more expecting you to pick up their slack.

@A brother in Christ This may be a bit Off-Topic but, your workflow might benefit from Workona, a very capable tab manager. You'll never have to have a billion browser tabs open again! Plus, it's a neat alternative to web-clipping.

12 minutes ago, A brother in Christ said:

Can Standard Note capture/save web pages with highlighting?
I found this app called Nimbus Note, Capture and Clipper. I might try it out.

I just got started with SN. Apparently it does not offer web-clipping. A quick Google search revealed that browser extensions have been created to work with SN. Personally, I'm glad it doesn't have a web-clipper. Evernote made it so easy to collect pages willy-nilly. Yet, the formatting isn't always retained. From now on, I'll just use a bookmarking tool.

I was going to go with Nimbus, but it costs 2x as much as SN.

I've had enough. Thanks to some of the suggestions here and on Reddit, I'm switching to StandardNote. It has an extension that imports ENX files (but not attachments.)

So long and thanks for all the fishy updates!

On 1/6/2021 at 10:25 PM, A brother in Christ said:

Wow, I'm sad to say that I'm not surprised this is considered "normal" for any software. 500MB is a lot of memory to be hogging for a text app that isn't even being used. I have no idea what it could be doing in the background like that, even if I am using the Chrome Extension. Maybe I need to be more diligent in shutting down web pages, but when I do research I often leave many tabs open for a while, even after clipping them. Maybe this is what is causing the issue. Still I don't see why the processes can't shut down after I've clicked "clip." Now my RAM usage is doubled because Chrome is using RAM to keep them open too. It's a good thing I have 64GB.

Whenever I decide to switch gears and do audio or video I'll just have to go through a process of closing all my browser windows and processes in order to make sure nothing happens while I'm recording, editing or rendering. That's just the nature of wanting to do everything on one computer.

I agree. Unlike you, I only have 12 GB of RAM and Evernote brought my system to an excruciatingly slow crawl. I thought I was being hacked, the lag on my mouse pointer movements was so bad. Firefox, with it's Chromium base, used to do the exact same thing. It seems to happen if I leave Evernote open overnight. (I forgot I had opened it.)

What did not make sense was, when I finally was able to see the Task Manager, Evernote was only at about 300 MB. But as soon as I sorted by %Memory, I noticed that the number quickly rose to 500MB!

This is strike 3 (or 5, who's keeping track, anymore?) With the annoying pop-up telling me I have the latest version, I think it's time for me to cut this dog loose.

On 11/5/2020 at 3:38 PM, Lemayp said:

From what I recall, I have experienced this on almost every monday morning when my laptop hasn`t been used during the week-end.

My laptop is in hibernate mode every time I don`t use it (current states is saved to disk and resume when I start using it).

After 2 days of hibernating, when I attempt to "continue" to use Evernote on monday morning, all notes would appear as blank, no exception.

The only solution I have found to this problem, is to kill all the evernote process.  Cleanly quitting and restarting Evernote hasn`t resolved the problem (there are still process running) for me.

Is there any settings I should set Evernote to attempt to get extra client log information to better investigate this based on the above comment?

Thanks for the tip to kill all processes! I saved your answer as a Web-clip. Ironically, if this happens again and I've forgotten, I won't be able to read your solution in Evernote. :)

As for why this happens to me, I'm guessing that I load Factorio and leave it running for days...it's plays havoc with all my apps, even after rebooting.

Cheers,

Mitch

In case anyone is interested, I fixed the line break issue and another, related, issue by taking the following steps:

In Power Query - Replace values for each character that needs special handling. #(lf) is changed to <br /> and & is changed to &amp;

In Excel VBA - Although the referenced macro (and variants) make the above transformations in a function called cBr, I found that it didn't work with Doc.Write. So I skipped the call. The relevant code,

DOC.WriteText CBr(.Cells(iRow, "B").Value) 'Note

becomes

DOC.WriteText .Cells(iRow, "B").Value 'Note

Since ENEX is simply an XML file, it's not too hard to convert spreadsheets to Evernote notes. Way back in 2012, I wrote a clumsy converter. Too bad I hadn't found Marty Zigman's blog post (Importing Microsoft Excel Data into Evernote without a Premium Account) before I had finished mine. Anyway, in the comments, many Excel users chimed in with various hints, questions and, most importantly, modifications to Marty's script.

I have to use Doc.Write and UTF-8, because I want to preserve the Chinese characters that are pasted into Excel. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to force the linebreaks to appear in Evernote. Since I'm transforming the file with Power Query, I thought I could use its linefeed representation, which is #(lf). When that didn't work, I tried \n, which didn't work, either.

Has anyone been able to preserve embedded line breaks in spreadsheet cells?

Cheers,

Mitch

5 hours ago, DTLow said:

This would also be my assumption and In the past I've used .enex files cross platform

Just FYI, someone with a Mac just successfully imported the .ENEX file that I created on Windows 10.

Thanks again!

Awesome! Thank you.

Hi there! Can anyone confirm the truth of the following statement?

An ENEX file created on Windows machine can be copied to a Mac machine and imported to the Mac's Evernote desktop application.

I'm assuming that, since ENEX is an XML file structure, it should work.