cmaryon

3 minutes ago, LilMarauder said:

@cmaryon -  is there a real "Archive" ish feature in Evernote? I've been looking and can't find anything that actually uses the word...do you have to create a new notebook? 

No, there is no archiving that's why we're all still here! Dissatisfied with the absence of archiving and with having negative searching for tags repeatedly offered as a solution.

48 minutes ago, DTLow said:

1 hour ago, cmaryon said:

The point of archiving is that the archived material by default does not appear in the search.  You want it excluded unless you specifically include it.  

Missing in Evernote is the "by default".  The default is all material appears in the search.  You have to specifically exclude archived material

When I used the word "archiving" I meant archiving, not Evernote archiving. When you archive something in the real world it is no longer a part of the main repository, and while it is still available when needed,, you do not have to specifically exclude it. That's what should happen in Evernote.

Glad the exclusion tag method works for you. Shouldn't have to remember to add that each time tho.

C

Tagging broadly helps you find stuff, not lose stuff.  The point of archiving is that the archived material by default does not appear in the search.  You want it excluded unless you specifically include it.  My workaround (and I'm sure others have probably mentioned it) is to move archived notes into an archived notebook.  It's not great, but it works for now.

To LiMaurader, you can set a default notebook in Web Clipper, or tell it to choose the last book you used, that should help you avoid clipping to notebooks you consider archived?

C

Thanks guys for your replies.  Patricksan, sorry, I meant to but forgot.  Have now.  csihilling and fredhammersmith, thanks for your ideas, I'll do some experiments.  

Cheers. 

On 2/16/2017 at 9:26 PM, fredhammersmith said:

But at almost 22K notes, the lack of a real archiving functionality is really showing.

Just to wake this up a bit, I have an Archive stack with notebooks within it which are not in general use but I need access to them from time to time.  This works well for me.  But I also have other stacks for other purposes, and now I want to archive a stack.  In other words, I want to archive the notebooks within the stack (move them into Archive, right?) but I want to keep their relationship with one another, so keep them in their stack.  But you can't stack within stacks.  Fredhammersmith, at 25k+ notes, I am not in your league, but I feel your pain.

I don't dispute that sometimes the lack of understanding is from the user side.  I am not saying that a help request means the product isn't perfect.  It may be the documentation isn't clear enough, the product may be fine.  However even if both are as good as they can be, nevertheless I sincerely hope that the provider aggregates the help requests to identify if there's a gap they want to fill. It's all feedback.  That doesn't mean the product and associated services (guides etc) are weak, but it is feedback on how the customer uses the product - the very best feedback there is.

Possibly, however the company should view it as such, requests for help are clear indicators of the company missing a need.  But I certainly agree that feature suggestions should be collected separately from other forms of feedback, without a doubt.  

I guess so jefito   After years in IT support and product development/management, anything a customer says constitutes feedback for me, for example if they need to ask for help, it means we haven't given them sufficient pointers in the first place.  Suggesting new features is only one form of feedback.

7 minutes ago, csihilling said:

Try clicking on the drop down by your user name at the top right of this page.  Then click on Profile and See my activity and you should see your posts.

Thanks.  I had dipped in there to see "My posts" or something - I found it under Profile as you said (there isn't a See My Activity, but no matter).  

I get periodic messages to show someone has posted in here, and I remember posting something myself a long time ago, but can't see my post.  I just get what looks like the original post of Feb 7 2016 from KLAHRO and 7 replies, not including mine. Also I don't understand the post about being moved to the feedback forum (sounds good!) - do we now have two conversations?  Is that where my post is?  There's no link to the moved post, do I now have to trawl through to find it?   I am of course perfectly capable of doing this, but it doesn't seem very efficient.  Perhaps we are now in the feedback forum and the old thread is languishing somewhere else, along with my post.  I thought the whole board constitutes feedback.  What is it otherwise?

This is not just feedback about the Windows Desktop product, btw.  The functionality we've suggested would cross all platforms otherwise there'd be no point.