greco_italiano

@Dave-in-Decatur thank you for that link! My issue wasn't that the program is slow per se, but rather that it takes up extremely high CPU cycles during active use (i.e. also drains battery on laptop as a result). I actually tried the new version by first logging out, clean uninstalling, removing all the old bits (revo), and reinstalling fresh with v10.76.2. Somehow, now during active usage, the app is taking up even more CPU resources for me (25, 30, even 35%). @PinkElephant With all due respect, brushing aside my concerns with "using an app causes the use of system resources" implies that an application can have no downsides. One can disagree on the level of CPU resources that are "reasonable" for a given app to consume during active use, and that can be up for debate depending on what the application does. But I don't see how it is at all unreasonable for the user base to expect an app to consume a "rational" amount of resources during its active use? Let's say that Evernote, during active use, consumed 50% of CPU resources -- would that be "using an app causes the use of system resources"? What if it used 75%? 100%? It's clear that there's definitely some threshold above which, for any given application, the CPU usage (and resultant impact on battery life) becomes unacceptably high. What is that number? At some point it goes beyond "overthinking when trying to control what a modern OS does". This is why I actually listed CPU resources being consumed during active use of some other applications that are either more powerful, or somehow similar in constant sycing the cloud or web-application based. I'm not talking about comparing Evernote to notepad, I'm talking about resource-intensive programs like Word, Excel, & New Outlook for Windows (which is web-application based, so to make a better comparison to Evernote) -- none of these consume even remotely close to what Evernote v10 does (my numbers in my prior post above). I simply don't understand why it is unreasonable to ask the question that, given that Evernote is a document editor like MS Word, why does it consume 7x the resources of MS Word? Both are multi-media document editors, and both are syncing edits immediately to the cloud (Office 365). Is it really so unreasonable to expect an app to consume resources that are typical for the type of work it does?

On Windows 10 here, long-time user, and just wanted to bump this in the off-chance any Evernote technical staff are continuing to follow this issue. While, I can report that at idle, unless at some random times, the CPU usage is usually less than 1% (though occasionally 2-4%), the main issue for me is that during active, normal usage, the CPU usage is extremely high. When simply editing a purely text-based note, I get to around 15-20% CPU usage consistently -- this is absurdly high compared to other applications that edit documents. For reference, the legacy v6.25.3.9348 app, in my usage, never exceeds 5% during active use of editing a note (usually 3-4%). Microsoft Word, in active use of typing and editing, 3-5%. Microsoft Excel 5-8% actively editing a file. Even the "New Microsoft Outlook for Windows", which is a web-based app that is constantly syncing to the cloud in real-time, never exceeds a few percent (and usually actually just 1%) in actively editing a mail message (which could be considered similar to Evernote v10 writing of a note that syncs constantly to the cloud). @PinkElephantreports that between 10 and 30% is to be "expected during normal use". Using upwards of a third of the CPU usage is no way an amount that should be expected for an application that is not a game or doing graphics editing. This is just a note-taking software, not Adobe Premiere video editing! The only thing we can hope for is that the Bending Spoons acquisition's stated aims to increase speed and reliability ("Future-proofing Evernote’s foundations") also includes a revamp of Evernote v10 into a v11 that is responsive and not more resource hungry than graphics programs.