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  1. I can share my personal frustration. Far too often, I am mid-thought when writing when I realize I need to see something in a note in a notebook already open on another monitor. I will click on the note to give it focus so I can scroll through the note. When I do not see a response, I click again (sometimes necessary when switching monitors). Usually, Evernote will later register both clicks then spawn a fullscreen window of the note, taking several seconds to render and being completely unresponsive until it finishes rendering. By then I have forgotten what I was trying to do in the first place. I will press CMD-W to get rid of the window I never wanted, go back to the document I was writing, re-orient myself, then go back to Evernote. I find it frustrating.
  2. Everything PinkElephant said, plus be very careful that the new environment can handle the load if you have a larger database. I attempted a switch to Apple Notes last year, summarized here: https://discussion.evernote.com/forums/topic/113738-note-size-limit-increase/?do=findComment&comment=627412
  3. That's a fair question. For me, it is too slow under certain circumstances, enough that it disrupts my flow and thought processes. I upgraded this MacBook Pro partly to improve the speed of Evernote. It is better on M1 Pro but not better enough, in my opinion.
  4. Mac EN hosts a local copy of the database. A fresh install induces a complete download that can take many days to complete. Consider letting it stay powered up and connected continuously, including overnight, until the sync completes.
  5. We agree that this feature will not bubble to the top of EN’s priority list for a while, if ever. The workaround you propose certainly works for greenfield (new) notes and notebooks. As HSM notes, the workaround does not work well for brownfield (existing) notes and notebooks. In the end, this missing feature is one more reason that iPad EN cannot replace desktop EN yet.
  6. I also see this as a critical feature. I use the create date to refer to the date the content was created and sort accordingly. That works well for the desktop version. Others seem to use create date to refer to the date the note was created in Evernote, regardless of the date of the content in that note. This works well when the note content is entered into Evernote at the same time the content is created. Evernote iOS assumes that all content is entered into Evernote at the time of creation. When the note is entered into Evernote on a date other than when the content is created (for whatever reason), then this assumption falls apart. I have zero interest in tracking when the content was entered into Evernote. I have much more internet in tracking when the content was created, whether or not it was entered into Evernote on that date.
  7. Apple switches architectures every 15 years or so. Perhaps EN decided to skip ARM and instead prepare for the next architecture switch in 2035?
  8. Tonight I retired a 2018 Intel i5 MacBook Pro, replacing it with a 2021 M1 Pro MacBook Pro. A large driver for the purchase was the hope of improved EN performance. I should have checked here before I made the plunge, but now I am here. The EN database is downloading and likely will continue downloading for the next several days. It is disappointing to learn that EN still is not native to the new MacBook architecture. By new I mean more than a year old.
  9. I know this has been discussed before, but after fully downloading my database a few months ago, I noticed it has come out of sync — see photo. I let it run for a bit in the foreground, but it was only managing some 145 kb/s — see photo. Is this normal? Is it OK? I know some people have some responses prepared, so let me save some bandwidth by addressing those preemptively. See below expected responses and my response to those responses. The storage is full Nope. See attached photo clearly showing 500+ GB available. You have a slow connection Nope. See attached speed test I just ran. You have a slow iPad Nope. See attached photo identifying this as an M1 iPad Pro. You shouldn’t download your notebooks (it is a waste; no one needs to do that; you have better uses for your storage; etc.) Maybe or maybe not, but this is a philosophical discussion that probably has nothing at all to do with download speed. Does anyone know what causes slow download speed?
  10. In case it helps the next person, I spent a week experimenting with importing Evernote (EN) notes to Apple Notes (AN) then aborted that effort last night after talking to Apple support. AN has several serious flaws to keep in mind when considering a migration: AN will silently drop attachments and features it does not support This is terrifying AN will not let you know if / when it finishes synchronizing I let one set of imports settle over the weekend but my five Notes instances (iCloud, personal MacBook Pro, work MacBook Pro, iPhone, iPad) never agreed on note counts and content This is also terrifying AN is terribly sluggish when loaded After loading 20 GB of the 160 GB database, AN was borderline unusable AN logs (from Notes app and cloudd process) never did quiesce after days of synchronizing, continuing to report errors and warnings This is also terrifying AN has zero facility for redating notes Occasionally I change the creation date of Notes in EN and this is a critical capability for me AN has no meaningful way to export notes This makes the migration to AN a one-way trip with no escape hatch In the end, my fear of AN lack of integrity trumped my reasons for migrating to AN. BIG REASONS TO MIGRATE AWAY FROM EN EN has note size limits that I regularly bump up against This is still an issue but perhaps may change soon I am reluctant to install EN on my work laptop because I do not want my personal information swept by a corporate backup or monitoring process If EN had encryption at rest then this would not apply SMALL REASONS TO MIGRATE AWAY FROM EN Premium EN costs $ Still true, but in the grand scheme of things this is just a few dollars per month EN is getting sluggish-ish But AN is worse at scale For me, the big reasons to migrate are not big enough to overcome the fear of notes losing integrity in AN. Cheers, Marty
  11. Agreed. This is yet another reason for EN to implement encryption at rest.
  12. I would actually prefer that EN said, “Our magic is in the note app, not the storage” then allow me to choose whatever backend storage I prefer, e.g. iCloud. I would pay the same or even more for the software, despite having storage costs on top of the software costs.
  13. This issue is near and dear to my heart. Because of this and other limitations, as an experiment, I am trying to move my entire database to Apple Notes. It is not going very well. I would be willing to pay more, perhaps even double, to overcome this and other limits. I have heard this approach before. I want my notes to be a fully contained archive without external dependencies. Those items on which the note depends may or many not exist when I want to read the note. Evernote’s concept is perfect for storing this type of data.
  14. We are clearly not communicating well. EN does tell users what to do, but those instructions depend on certain iOS security features not being used. When those iOS security features are used (as in my case), the EN instructions do not work. iOS has a feature to accommodate this situation. I suggested that the EN app take advantage of those features. Nowhere do I suggest that this happen without user acknowledgement or that anyone should be surprised.
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