Leozin

Thanks guys, but albeit inspiring those insights, they don't actually address the matter; I took a quick look at DropIt! like @gazumped pointed, but as far as I could see it can only monitor folders, not individual files. I also tried writing something up in the Windows Task Manager after reading @DTLow's approach but I hit a snag too. Maybe I'll suggest this as a feature, why not?

That's sad. Where can i suggest as as feature? That would be really nice. In the meantime, can you elaborate on how your script works?

It would go down like this: I have plain text note in one of my notebooks. I keep it in Evernote for search and reference purposes, but I originally used a desktop plain text editor, like Sublime Text or Visual Studio Code to write it (I like markdown). Can't Evernote have a way to monitor that specific text file on my PC (Windows, but could be on any platform) so that, when I launch the Evernote application, it would check for changes on that file and update the note?

Thanks guys, I made it. Turns out I was being dumb: I had relocated the local files, including the database, to a secondary partition, which is mounted on a HDD. My OS runs inside a SSD, but because of short storage, I moved the Evernote DB to the HDD. Stupid move, given that the DB is still small compared to the free space. :)

I've seen people complaining about Evernote for Windows' speed back in 2017 and 18, but now for some reason it's getting unbearable. I have less than 1000 notes and try to keep as few images and other non-text content to a minimum. I wonder how's the experience of those really heavy users who maintain 10k notes and counting. Evernote is taking long to load when opening the app, long to switch between notes and if you fire up the search... You must have patience. I beg the devs to think about what Evernote was meant for in the first place: to be a NOTE TAKING app, not a full-blown American Congress Library replica. Edit: one thing I suspect is slowing Evernote down is the amount of preloaded fonts for each and every note: As you can see, there is a number of fonts that come with Windows – or not – that will most likely never be used in Evernote. So there could be an option for the user to limit or select just a few good fonts to be available in the never-ending drop-down menu.