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Like everyone else I know I have duplicates in there somewhere and I just remove them when I come across them. This particular situation was a stupid mistake on my part. The excel thing (I would have used google sheets) would probably have been simpler with a query to just display non-duplicates. I'll remember that next time.

jbenson2, I made the mistake of copying 3 private folders from my main laptop into my tablet/laptop, and then ended up updating both of them with different info over a 2 year period, so I had to find the extra notes in both notebooks. If this ever happens to anyone else, here's what I did: I exported the local notebook from one laptop and imported it into the other. I put them both under a stack so that I could see all the notes in both notebooks by selecting the stack. Then I sorted by name. I was seeing duplicates everywhere, and when there was a single I moved it somewhere else. It would have been much simpler with a 'find duplicate' tool within Evernote though, that's for sure. At one point I swore I was going blind...

I'm *this* close to doing just that ?

Gotcha. Yeah, that's what I was thinking, but I really don't want to leave that to the last minute. I'll just keep hitting the down button on my list until everything is downloaded (and hope I don't forget anything).

Basically because if the import creates "new" notes, then updating one of those notes on my main laptop before I leave will not update it on the travel laptop and I certainly wouldn't want that.

I'm trying to find duplicates. It turns out that my duplicates would have the same title and the same creation date. Anyway to search for duplicates? I am using a workaround right now, but I'd sure prefer to have Evernote list them all for me.

I was going to export the notebook from my main laptop and import it on my travel laptop. I figured that HAS to work. BUT.... I'm not sure the notes themselves would remain in sync if I made a change to a note. I'll try it when I get a chance. For now I've been clicking on each note. Damned pain in the butt. I'm sure it's a bug. I thought I read that when you select a notebook or do a search, all the results, ie the notes in the list view, get downloaded. I suppose it makes sense to only download what you click on, but they really should implement a "sync entire notebook" feature for those using sync on demand.

Nice call. However, none of the options worked. The tags were applied though, and the pdf did print, but all the of unsynced notes had just headers and no content. To be fair, though, I have 6.8.6 on that mini-laptop. I'm afraid of upgrading on that machine because I know this version works on it, but I suppose I should. Not sure it would be faster than selecting each note though!

I have to get my travel laptop ready for a trip and have a question. On demand sync is set up on the laptop. I want to sync my Travel notebook and all its contents. I can find no way to do that, other than manually selecting each single note within that notebook one at a time. It's going to take forever. Isn't there a way to download the entire notebook? (by download I just mean sync)

Someone above mentioned that tags were implemented. I don't get any. I just shared a TIFF2018 Notebook with account B, and when I login to the web as account B, I see the notebook but none of the tag s that those notes have. The tags are also all missing in the previous version of web, so I'm pretty much scr***ed. Please get the tags working on one or the other. My second premium account is useless to me without tag sharing.

For mac maybe but not Windows

There is another thread about this here if want more reading...

Yeah, I got a bit excited reading about Spaces. From what I've read it reminded me of the old OS/2 days where you could create desktop shortcuts that would open entire projects (programs, files, etc). Your "deck" icon would open your deck-related files, programs, whatever without having to open the program first. It just didn't care where the deck-related info was coming from or what format it took. I'm guessing spaces lets you gather everything related to deck-building (notebooks, notes, tags) and allows you to share and/or collaborate on the whole shebang.

A "pinned" note stays at the top no matter how you sort.

It's funny how all of the various workarounds for pinning a note involve searching/finding a note when "pinning" actually means never having to search or find!

The most glaring omission, I think, is the ability to resize the image (I mean really resize, not just dragging to make it look smaller on a page). Most images I include in Evernote are way too large, and every single time I take a picture of a receipt or anything with my phone I always have to open each image with Snag-it and resize to 30% and save. I dream of being able to right-click an image within evernote, selecting Resize, and having a lovely fly-out with percentages and/or pixel sizes. The better dream is to have a setting where I could say: limit all photos to width: xx or height: xx, whichever fits best. As they say in the movies, a girl can dream...

ah, a future date. Right.

I would not consider changing the date daily on a note a viable solution. I would need a pinned note to remind me to change the date on the pinned note ;-)

Reminders don't display in "List" view, so that's out. Using a prefix would work but only when sorted by name, and in the correct Notebook, so that's out too. Using a shortcut would work but your note has to have a short name otherwise it takes up too much shortcut real-estate and you can't rename a shortcut. But it still interferes with workflow because if you have just created a complicated search then click on the "pinned" note-as-a-shortcut your entire list changes. So that's out. I use tags 0, 1 and 2 and keep important "pinned" notes as 1. But that's a filter, and like using a shortcut, it will interfere with workflow by changing the list. So that's out. So yes, there are multiple ways around "pinned" notes, but none of them are true "pinned" notes. Add me to the list of people who would love this functionality.

That would definitely help. I started a thread about that a while back - you can vote for the idea here: Another option might be to sync-on-demand by folder (or tag, which would be much better). If I could tag notes as "archive" and know that those go to the cloud but everything else stays put, I would consider making the jump.

I just read in this thread that MAC has the notes within folders and a small database file. I wonder why they couldn't do that with Windows? Cloud services can play nice with WIndows folders (Dropbox, Google Drive...).

I haven't made the jump yet because once I do, then there is no way to backup the database (exb file with ALL my notes) and while I like the cloud as much as anyone, I use it as backup, not as my primary source of everything.

Cucumbercutter, that might be a nice feature, as long as we could also type it. I find it much quicker to type Rosemary -notebook:film -notebook:recipes than to go around right-clicking on multiple notebooks. I'm old school that way I guess.

Actually, that sounds better than it works. I had a separate account for work stuff and for the past year switching between two accounts didn't work (folks at evernote never found what causes the problem). I gave up the 2nd account in frustration. Even if it did work I'm not sure I would go back to two accounts. There is something nice about knowing everything is in one place.

It isn't a new idea, but it is a wishlist item. Please allow us to exclude a notebook from our search with a -notebook type search term. And if that is impossible, then provide a way to tag notes automatically with the notebook name. I need to exclude a notebook from a search. I most always do, multiple times/day. Since I can't do that, all the notes within those notebooks have a tag with the notebook name. I can't type -notebook recipes when searching for an article that appeared in The Onion, but I can sure type -tag:recipes to filter out 2,000 notes. It takes some housekeeping to ensure that all notes within a notebook also includes the notebook tag. Not all notebooks require it, but I have at least 4 that do; that is 4 notebooks that interfere too much with most searches such that I have to tag all the notes within them: recipes, woodworking, work and film. And yes, I need these notebooks because they are shared. I got rid of all my notebooks except for 4 shared ones and 2 that I use daily. I prefer to use tags. But I don't like having to do two things to so many notes (move them to the notebook and tag them with the notebook name).