Etonreve

Incidentally, now that I've established that I do actually read Evernote's marketing materials, it is ridiculous for anyone to claim, as has been done in this forum, that it is not intended as a full-on productivity tool. So many of the blog posts discuss how the use of Evernote will streamline one's work process. It is not meant to be merely a storage device. Which is why if some people like notebooks because that's their preferred work method it should be heeded.

Google's post explaining why it changed its logo was a lot shorter than Evernote's. And of course, the black guy had to do a high five because we all know that's what all black people do when they're happy. (I'm not saying it was offensive, but really.)

He (I'm assuming it's a man) has a tendency to contradict other members. It is tiresome.

It was possibly the most solipsistic marketing exercise to which I've ever been subjected. I find graphic design discussions interesting, but WHAT ABOUT THE CORE PRODUCT? Read the comments if you have time. My favorite, by Colin, was: "Wow. It’s pretty sad when 99% of the comments here are asking for the product to be better and dont give a rip about the branding. As a long-time (and paying) user, I agree. Been using Apple Notes for almost everything I used to use EN for (except web clipping)…" https://medium.com/@futurepixelfm/wow-its-pretty-sad-when-99-of-the-comments-here-are-asking-for-the-product-to-be-better-and-dont-d907e0a9a455

I suggest you contact Customer Service. I did recently and had a good outcome. I had had a Premium subscription and the interface had not given me the option to downgrade to Plus. After my subscription expired, I contacted CS to see if I could get Plus. They said that I could, but that there were no guarantees that Plus would be continued in the future. At the same time, I was offered a reasonable discount on Premium, so I re-subscribed to Premium. All I care about are note saving, retrieval, adequate storage (Basic's is too paltry), and organization. I would also like more notebooks. I'm not interested in many of Evernote Premium's other features, such as showing notes in a presentation format or work collaboration. But Premium at a reduced price was justifiable for me. I hope that Evernote in time can work out a permanent tier that offers the features that people like me want at a price less than $70 a year. For now, I'm back with Evernote for another year at the Premium level and am delighted.

My Premium subscription expired. I'm not sure I can justify the money to renew it. I mainly use Evernote for the space, of which I only consume a fraction. Many Premium features are of no use to me. I really could have used the Plus-level option.

When the price increase was announced I was angry not to be offered the lower price for Premium as some other Premium users were. I went down to Basic and started using OneNote. After a few months I was offered an upgrade to Premium for 45 USD. On app, there's a date for my renewal, but it's grayed out so I can't see what the charge will be. How long do Premium users have the option to downgrade to Plus?

I'm not overjoyed by the Premium subscription cost, but if holds steady, the program works, and Evernote is forthcoming about problems, I'll take it. Life's too short.

I started with Basic, upgraded to Premium, but probably have had a Plus subscription at some point. Here's my feedback. I care most about: The Web Clipper. Upload capacity. I save a large amount of material. It's mainly images that take up the most space in my account. Notebooks. The notebook is the foundation of my organization system. I do make tags, but almost never use them to search and there are many times when I can't type a tag. I either don't have the time or the interface doesn't offer the option at the time of saving. I am glad that Evernote finally made it possible to create notebooks on the fly while clipping. But now I'm out of notebooks. Advanced search. Email-to-Evernote. Evernote's graphic design is pleasing. It is clean and attractive. Features that aren't important to me or areas for improvement include: I use the Reminder function, but it's not essential. I don't care about sharing notes, but there should be an easy way to tell which notes were shared and with whom. Elaborate formatting of notes is not important to me, if needed, I would use a program designed for complex formatting. I don't think it's easy or convenient to stack notebooks. A slide system is not necessary. Using the Evernote camera function to create a note is awkward. Evernote works very slowly on my Desktop, to the point sometimes of being unusable. I usually use the web or Android version. I very much wish the print feature were better.

Sometimes this forum does have an Orwellian feel or as if one is being gaslighted. Up is down. Black is white. Poor customer service is great.

The assessment of relevance can be subjective, but this one isn't even close. In a discussion of the elimination of a more affordable price plan, how is the existence of free alternatives offered by Evernote's competitors not relevant? And as you noted, I was reinforcing a point made by another Evernote user earlier in the thread. I'm not writing for the tiny contingent of people here who think Evernote can do no wrong, but for other customers and for Evernote itself. A company that ignores feedback from its customers is crazy. I don't think that Evernote really cares -- there have been so many instances proving that -- but hope springs eternal. (Or should I be invoking the joke about the "definition of insanity being a repetition of the same action while expecting a different result?")

I've never known how to directly reply to a previous response in this forum without using the quote function. I, too, did not understand the person you quoted. What does ending the Plus level for future customers have to do with us? A reward for our loyalty? What?

My remark was pertinent and it is your long-winded response that is inappropriate. I may not agree with other member's arguments, but I seldom tell them they don't have the right to speak. In the past, I used to use the Ignore or Mute function on users who in my opinion weren't contributing to the discussion. That seems to have disappeared. If I'm mistaken, please tell me where it is.

I completely agree. Sometimes I can barely read the printouts from my Windows laptop.

Who made you the Relevance Judge? It's quite pertinent; another member was talking about an alternative to Evernote for people who don't want to pay for a Premium account now that the Plus level is being eliminated.

I have Office 365 free through an educational institution and received a ton of extra OneNote space for free upon buying an external hard drive. I've continued with Evernote because it's familiar and I have a lot of notes, but I hear that OneNote keeps improving.

I created a stack called "Old" and added notebooks that are no longer active. Like you, I would prefer to place them in an archive that is out of sight.

The sharedate:* search helped me, but I'm surprised that Evernote does indicate the status, as does, for example, Google Docs.

Unsure. I've been a Premium subscriber for much of the time. Evernote Desktop has not worked for years. I've tried to get a discount for that. My subscription is about to lapse and I may either go back to Basic or leave Evernote entirely. I use Evernote for many things, but combine a malfunctioning app with a high price and poor customer and tech service and perhaps it's time to go.

I agree and commiserate with you.

Yes the adapter you mentioned Etonreve will work just fine. Bear in mind that you will not get the same read/write speed that you could get with an SSD Hard Drive but it will be much more faster than your HDD 7200rpm Hard drive. "Do you think using a USB hub would be a problem for the adapter?" -> Nope. As long as the USB hub is powered it shouldn't make any difference. What laptop model you have? I'm surprised that you don't have an MMC/SSD slot on the side of it. If you give me the model/specs of your laptop I can tell you if you do have this kind of slot or not. I have a Dell Inspiron 15. Thanks a lot.

I really appreciate the suggestion. Does every laptop have a slot for that card? I'm looking on mine and don't see one. Would an adapter like this one work? http://www.amazon.com/Sandisk-MicroMate-Memory-Reader-SDDR-113/dp/B000YBH4YU/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1401916980&sr=1-1&keywords=sandisk+adapter+usb Do you think using a USB hub would be a problem for the adapter? I'm running out of USB slots. Many thanks for your suggestions.

I have a very large account and have been suffering right along with all of you with these same problems for a couple of years now. A couple of days ago, I saw Lesicaire's suggestion to move to an SSD. My C: drive is an SSD, but I have had Evernote's database on a 2nd internal drive because it is so large (25GB). Before I moved my database files to the SSD, I used REVO Uninstaller to completely uninstall Evernote. I downloaded the latest version of Evernote and re-downloaded my database to my SSD C: drive. The download happened overnight. I had a sync error, but eventually it seemed to finish syncing and it appeared to be done. Evernote, was worse than ever. It was unusable. It would only unfreeze long enough to freeze again. Next (further leveraging my years of experience with Evernote support), I opened Evernote in de-bug mode* and selected "Optimize Database" from the debug menu (next to help). This took a few hours and seemed to fail the first time, but I ran it again and it seemed to work. Here is the punchline: Evernote has been working perfectly. It hasn't frozen once! I can do other things while it is syncing and sync doesn't sometimes take 5 minutes for no reason. Every morning it takes Evernote minutes to open after I boot up my PC, but this morning it opened immediately without freezing. I hope it lasts, but I am optimistic because I've done all kinds of troubleshooting before and it never worked this well even for a short period of time. Thanks Lesicaire! *to run Evernote in debug mode, type: evernote.exe/debugmenu in the Run Dialog in Windows Thanks for the info. Would that I had an SSD.

Thank you. I will look into it.