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There is a feature in the mobile version only, which has driven me crazy. If I enter a date in the "dd.mm.yyyy" format and follow it with a blank it autoconverts the date to a link. 

I had a workaround in which i put the date on one line and the blank + following text on the next and then backspace the blank to the date on the line above.

In another completely unrelated comment I found out that there are options for the editing. And playing with this it seems that EN wants to convert it into a clickable phone number. Why a dd.mm.yyyy formatted date looks even remotely like a phone number is beyond me, but deactivating this option did the trick for me.

It is in Options - Notes - Advanced Editing (or something like that, I use the german version).

I also experienced a lot of problems with syncing of tasks. It seems, that tasks are synced separately from notes. And sometimes this just doesn't work. A few times in the last weeks I missed reminders I set in the tasks, because I created them on my desktop and later saw that they never reached my phone. The notes had synced without a hitch.

Edit: Forcingt the sync didn't help either. And I also experienced the never ending sync bar on my phone (Android).

2 hours ago, agsteele said:

Perhaps you are not aware that the mobile apps have a sync option: Settings | Sync | Sync Now

Or does that not work for you?

Wow! No! I was not aware! Thank You!

(I thought that the goal was to unify EN on all different platforms, so I didn't even look. Glad, that they differ in this aspect.)

2 hours ago, PinkElephant said:

Manual sync: ctrl-R will make EN reload (in practice: sync).

On a Mac it is cmd-R.

But my problem is on my phone. I think taking (or changing) a note, and afterwards switching my phone off (which frankly is what anyone does) is the problem. I think it will not sync until the Android battery saver options decide, when EN might get CPU time and Internet again. But keeping EN open (and my phone switched on) for a minute hoping it will sync eventually is not really the solution.

On 1/15/2022 at 1:13 AM, gazumped said:

<Sigh> So your phone and PC both have a note,  content A1.  On the desktop you change that content to A2 and then,  because you like to live an interesting life you then pick up the phone and change it's copy of A1 to A3. 

Evernote's server,  which duly receives TWO SEPARATE AND DIFFERENT changes to A1,  both with your apparently valid sign-in,  thinks "Hmmn.  User made some sort of mistake.  I save both so User can sort it out."

You'll like Google Docs.

 

This is really not what the original poster described. He created A1 on the PC, modified it on the phone to A2, and then added another thing again on the PC. This is one of the standard use cases for some of my notes too. An since I switched to EN10 I too have way more duplicate notes then before, since I can't manually sync anymore. And just have to hope my notes have synced. An no, I don't change something on my phone and just for fun immediately another thing on my PC. And I don't think the original poster did this, and I don't think your cynism is justified.

The problem is that you simply don't know if the sync has completed, since EN has decided to get rid of manual sync. This will normally not be a big problem on a permanently connected PC, but it is on a mobile phone.

I think for quite some time now the old screenshot tool (Alt-Ctrl-S) has been replaced with the new Shift-Win-S. Maybe you try this key combination?

With the new tool you can make rectangle shots, but also polygon or freeform.

I can confirm that this bug is fixed in EN 6.23, although it is not mentioned in the release notes.

Switching to Card View is working fine for me also, since I don't care about the view of the notes below while working with the reminder list above. And you can use keyboard shortcuts to switch the views, so I don't think reverting to an earlier version because of this is really necessary.

Regardless, I'm glad to hear that EN is aware that this is a bug, and they plan to fix it.

I also ran into this today - New Year note cleaning up. It absolutely is disruptive and annoying as hell.

16 minutes ago, robanero said:

I too have this ridiculous problem, but here is my workaround.

I am able to "search" for notes by using the Tags.  On the Tags screen, hold down on a tag to select it.  Then click on any other tags to add to the tag to the list.  Once you have your tags selected, click on VIEW NOTES in the upper right.

This gives you a view of only the notes that have the matching tags. 👍

Yes but with this we both are rather old school. I have my notes structured in a lot of thematically ordered notebook stacks / notebooks, so I do find my notes if I remember in which notebook they should be. And I have a tight tag structure, so I do find them through this also. But it is a nuisance.

The kids from today, they just throw everything on a big heap and let Google Evernote do the search for them. Since computers have become quite good at searching this is a rather efficient method. Until somebody decides to break the search feature for good of course.

9 hours ago, LuizSiqueiraNeto said:

Try to go back to the previous version, with me it worked. You can find instructions on how to do this through the above posts.

Yes of course, this is the solution. You just have to allow to install apks from third party sites, where at this point Google urges you very strongly to reconsider, cause this is very often a very bad idea. And after this your have to switch off auto-updates for every app on your phone, which will also include not installing security relevant fixes, cause EN is not able to get its act together. Yes, that sounds about the right thing to do.

For me the most incomprehensible thing with this bug BTW is for me not the bug itself - bugs can happen. It is not even that they did not revert to an earlier version, cause I really don't know about the intricacies of the Google App Store (if you look at the troubles with the actual Windows Beta of EN then sometimes there is more in the background going on then we know). No, if you look at the first post in this thread, then you will realize that EN knew about this bug through its voluntary beta-testers all along, and they released it anyway.

This reminds me of MS, who were told bei their beta-testers that this Window release sometimes deletes all your data (which an OS really shouldn't do), and they too released it anyway. Somewhere in the management of EN somebody said "what the heck, we'll just release it, hardly nobody will notice". That our note-keeping app is unable to search for notes anymore.

4 hours ago, pjbeee said:

Evernote's handling of this has been just awful. It feels as if we hardly matter to them. 

I have to agree too. They broke the search in a note keeping app and just don't seem to care that one of the most important features of such an app is now unusable.

I think this may be releated to the "search not working anymore" since the last update, which is also not working for me anymore.

I can select every other option for the list view of the widget (last shown, recently, notebook, reminder...  sorry if not all options are correct, I use the german version of Evernote), and they all show a list of notes in the widget as they should.

But if I select the "saved search" option, then none of my saved searches show up, I only get the very unhelpful message "list can not be shown, maybe there is a problem with your WLAN". Yes, surely. I didn't now that EN on Android is only to be used with WiFi...

Yes, EN on Android does not get much love. But releasing an update ("dark mode is better", and I even like and use dark mode) which breaks search, which frankly is one of the most import features of a note keeping app, and (a) not repairing it or (b) rolling back the changes as quickly as possible baffles me.