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  1. This thread is a life-saver for our entire company workforce and school system of many hundreds of users. I rarely comment on Evernote message boards because generally speaking the software works as intended and has been consistent in quality for years. Somehow, Evernote 10 is completely unusable and inoperable. I won't go into details as it's clear from this thread - apart from it being a slow/sluggish, incompatible, lack of keyboard shortcut, and slashed essential feature-set version - all developed over years of customer research and discovery (ie. listening to your fanbase), that I am at a loss for words at how this release came into existence to be quite frank. I am thankful for this legacy release being able to run off the same database without requiring an entire rework or overhaul of our workflows. I am usually an advocate of updates and advancement in UI/UX, functionally, etc. However, EN 10 fails on all accounts as voted by our many users. As I am sure all of your paying longtime power users will attest, please revert back to the power, robustness, feature packed, speed, efficiency, and reliability of EN 7. Thank you, Long time user and EN fan
  2. Agreed. The Evernote Watch app is in desperate need of a functionality update and upgrade. Also, I cannot seem to find the app anymore in the watch app store?
  3. Yes, this is high priority for our students as well. We have Evernote premium accounts for our writing classes of hundreds of students and have been trialing the transition in a few classrooms to alternative writing software such as Focused to eliminate distractions while our students write. We have considered something like this: https://setapp.com/how-to/how-to-write-distraction-free It would be very similar to Evernote's "Presentation" mode that ALLOWED text editing (writing). Our students continue to press the "Presentation" mode and attempt to type; frustration ensues when they realize they cannot type in "Presentation" mode. @Evernote, could you please add a text edit feature into Presentation mode or alternatively add a "Distraction Free" writing mode? This way we would not have to transition our classes to alternative software. Thanks for your consideration. Howie
  4. So I upgraded to the new beta, and still no luck with editing PDF files in preview. Rather than saving to the original file (which it used to do), an essential function keeping files synchronized and a seamless workflow, it asks to create a copy of the PDF. This would mean, each time I make some edits to a file, I would have to save a new file on the desktop, and drag that new file back into the same evernote note (deleting the initial attachment, and replacing it with the new), and synchronizing, to have access to the edited file in evernote. To see how it should actually work - editing MS Word documents continue to function properly in Evernote. You open the attached file in MS Word. MS word opens, you edit the file. File -> Save. And Evernote updates the attachment. Everything is synchronized. You only have one file - an up to date working document across all of your devices. Not sure where along the way PDF editing in third party apps.... NOTE : I tested this using PDF Pen Pro (instead of Apple's Preview). It worked like it should - updating the existing file. Something about the Preview app is not allowing Evernote to update the existing file which is ashame.
  5. This is really important and exciting to get fixed! The annotation capabilities are useless when it comes to filling out extensive PDF forms. Prior to this problem, I could work my way through an extensive application using PDF Pen Pro or Preview, checking off boxes, throwing in signatures, filling in text boxes, click save, and the file would be synchronized for me to access and edit the PDF file anywhere else. Now, as we all know, it tries to make a copy of the file and save it somewhere else. For whatever reason, this problem does NOT exist for Microsoft Word documents for example. I can open the document, edit, and save it, and it will save the updated file within my Evernote database without trying to create a copy of it somewhere else.
  6. @Antonia @ jj Select the text you'd like to have encrypted --> click Edit from menu --> select "Encrypt selected text"
  7. @DTLow Regarding point two, I am always paranoid of the 'best' way to replace a file (ie. pdf or word document) within a note if the file has the same name... For your Step 2 above, after saving the new file to the desktop, what is the exact order of actions you take to replace the original? I've tried it in the past and it had reverted back to the old document at times. I have had luck with the following: 1. delete the original word/pdf/excel file inside the note 2. click and drag the new file into the note (with the exact same name... ie. newchapter.doc or bug.pdf) 3. hit the sync button to make sure it syncs the new file Is this what you do? Thanks! ps. I really do hope this gets fixed! I've been a devout EN power user for years... but things have been getting rough for me with all of the following issues: - EN spontaneously threw 2000+ notes into the trash without my knowing.... surprise discovery!! (it may have been preceded with EN crashing, cannot say for sure (ticket submitted) - encryption/password protection feature has always been horrendous (except on iPhone): require password protecting entire notebooks... I currently have hundreds of little text notes in evernote encrypted, and the fact that it allows any password for any little text snippet... well over the years as my passwords evolved and I forgot about those notes, I now find myself unable to unlock many of my text notes from years back (my fault, I know... but I just wish there was a global password for large notebooks). - merging notes on a mac does not provide ability to order the way notes are merged - Annotation + editing word/pdf/excel documents in Preview/etc. (above) ........ Oh boy
  8. @Michael Harrison Indeed that is genius... thanks! It DOES sound potentially dangerous though haha - using at own risk... hmmm, any potential pitfalls here.... ?
  9. Interesting find @eric99! Thanks for sharing. It has kick-butt reviews on the Google Play store, 4.5/5 stars with >62,000 reviews. Easy notebook encryption is what we currently need for our school and individual PDF encryptions to export into EN is rather janky and unproductive. Xodo looks to be an alternative to PDF Pen Pro on the Mac, or PDF Expert on iOS, correct me if I'm wrong. A powerful PDF editor yes, but that seems to be about it? These two apps mentioned, and even Preview for Mac offers password encryption of PDF's. Thanks!
  10. Dear Evernote, I would like to request as many have, one essential feature to the Evernote desktop app for Mac. I teach an English and Chinese Language class for a college where we require all of our 100+ students to utilize MacBooks for classroom learning of languages. The ability to password lock notebooks, which is one layer more specific than what is available on the iPhone and iPad (eg. app lock), is essential in order for us to continue using the note taking app as our teaching tool. Individual notebook locking allows us to leave laptops logged in with Evernote running permanently in the background while still limiting or providing control over beginner, intermediate, and advanced student access to topic specific notebooks without having to lock down individual notes or entire laptops. Please introduce this feature in an update to Evernote for MacBooks or our institution will be forced to change our Required Student Tools and Materials list to a note taking app which enables such functions. Sincerely, Howie D.
  11. Dear Evernote, I would like to request, as many have, one essential feature to the Evernote desktop app for Mac. I teach an English and Chinese Language class for a college where we require all of our 100+ students to utilize MacBooks for classroom learning of languages. The ability to password lock notebooks, which is one layer more specific than what is available on the iPhone and iPad (eg. app lock), is essential in order for us to continue using the note taking app as our teaching tool. Individual notebook locking allows us to leave laptops logged in with Evernote running permanently in the background while still providing beginner, intermediate, and advanced student access to topic specific notebooks without having to lock down individual notes or entire laptops. Please introduce this feature in an update to Evernote for MacBooks or our institution will be forced to change our Required Student Tools and Materials list to a note taking app which enables such functions. Sincerely, Howie D.
  12. Your welcome Bob. Might I add that the developer of FastEver is also quite responsive to email for suggestions, bug fixes, etc. Over the years, I have reported minor bugs that only occur in my unique circumstances, and he responded overnight with a solution or recommendation. In fact, here is some food for thought: Perhaps Evernote ought to consider acquiring Rakko Entertainment and its developer(s) for their growing line of EN apps and highly personable programmers. Afterall, Japan is EN's largest and most loyal client market according to some articles, and also where Rakko is situated I believe. This wouldn't solve our Android smartphone EN photo-taking dilemma, but at least the existing iPhone users would have a nice package rolled into one. The importance of this thread for EN probably should not be taken lightly. The 'Photo' niche is already very big and only getting bigger as evident by 'photo-features' in most apps being roll-out these days including Dropbox, banking apps such as BoA, Google Goggles/Glass, etc. The list goes on. I'm sure the smart folks at EN must be working on something to address the concerns in this thread, if not assigning a committee to debate circles around it.
  13. I have been a paid member on and off for several years now. This year, I auto-subscribed to be a constant paying customer. While this feature is very importantly to me personally, it is an absolute must in our company of over 50 employees currently on paid subscriptions for evernote. Peter Martin has summarized it nicely, and I could and should add MANY more reasons for their addition: +51 While for Peter, the first point was more critical, the second point is more essential to the workflow in our company and how we use EN day in and day out. I should note that we currently have resorted to using a paid third party app that has implemented this quite well: FastEver Snap by Rakko Entertainment (apparently a SINGLE programmer from home was able to code this app, update it regularly, and sync it with Evernotes API). In the app, you select: - the dimensions of the photo (which correlates to an acceptable size): lower quality settings for business cards, photos of clients, and other things we would like to load QUICKLY when utilizing 3G, or selecting higher quality when storing photos for magazine covers, website cover stories, notes, receipts, and documentatoin requiring OCR. Our company employs reporters and journalist, foodies, photographers, accountants, and legal services among many things, and all of them are provided with a paid EN subscription currently. We are ALWAYS on the go and rely heavily on syncing our evernote photos (receipts, notes, pictures, business cards, etc.) via 3G/LTE via our phones instantly. Peter's point on display size of an image is aesthetically important, yet the efficiency and speed of which notes can be uploaded, downloaded, viewed, shared over mobile phones is absolutely essential to how we implement evernote professionally in the business (point 2: rescale to reduce data size) The problem: FastEver Snap is only available for the iPhone. Many of our employees have already begun switching to Android based phones, and we haven't found a suitable alternative in the Google Android app store or elsewhere. So essentially, our company is back to square one... taking HUGE DATA HOG photos with Android smartphone cameras, importing it to Evernote AS IS, and incurring LONG WAIT TIMES to both upload and view the images for the sending and receiving end, while simoultaneously using up EN data transfer unnecessarily. In recent months discussions for alternative means of datasharing, workflow, logging, etc. within out business has proceeded to action and we will unfortunately be dropping our 50+ subscriptions as needed to accomodate for the reasons discussed. CONCLUSION: If a single young programmer is capable of programming this Photo Taking Evernote Syncing App with sizing options over the course of a weekend, AND ONLY charge a one time app purchase fee of $1.99, AND maintain regular updates on it that coincice with Evernote updates, my expectations are that Evernote ought to politely ask one of its elite programmers if s/he could spend an hour or two creating a resize function into its stock app, or a separate photo taking app for the growing mobile Android smartphone market (not to mention the mainstream iPhone market). It could be however that our concerns are unique to our company and not expressed by the majority of EN iPhone and Android mobile users out there. HD
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