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Thanks. Too bad we can't search for the links.  Remind me to never change their names again so that I can at least find their source that way 😉

1 minute ago, DTLow said:

If you encounter broken links, you can search the note title

This only works if you haven't altered the text

I realize that. What I'm asking is to avoid the "If you encounter".  I know what you are saying, but I'm closing an account and importing everything into my main account. I do tend to change some link names, so I'd rather do the necessary clean-up while I still have the original account open on a separate screen, where I could click on links and see where they lead, then re-create if necessary. So, if I could search for "notes that contain internal links" then I'd be way ahead of the game, having filtered out hundreds of notes.

Right. But I'd rather not manually go through each one of the notes I've imported just to determine whether or not they include a link. If I could search for any note that includes such a link then I could do the necessary re-linking.

Is there a way to search for notes that include links to other evernote notes? You know, the results of : "copy internal link"?

I just imported an enex from one of my other accounts and I wanted to re-create any links that are in the files as these will, of course, be broken now that they are in a new account. 

CalS, I currently have both instances of Evernote open (desktop vs web) so that would really amount to the same thing.

I'll just have to try a few things until I'm happy with the workflow. You know how it is when you decide to try a new method - it takes a bit of time to figure out if it is worth your while.

On 8/6/2019 at 10:33 AM, dcon said:

If you open your .exb file (typically in <\Users\<you>\Evernote\Databases) with an SQLite browser, you may be able to determine that. (I'm using SQLiteBrowser: https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser/releases , the portable version) If you open the 'note_attr' table you can see search for the uid and see the associated title. (You can also see the notebook it's in) (BTW, I open the file with the Open-Database-Readonly menu item - just to be sure it doesn't do something! Alternatively, make a copy of the exb and open that)

dcon, I forgot to thank you for this information. Works like a charm.

That's a great suggestion... although doesn't this solution assume that I'm auto saving my screenshots in an external folder first (and then auto naming/moving them into separate subfolders which are watched by the two instances of Evernote)?  I didn't think you could save Evernote screenshots to a desktop folder. If I could then that would solve all my issues. As you point out,  I could use evernote exclusively for work screenshots set to save in a work folder watched by my work account, and I could use another of my multiple capture tools to auto save in my original folder. If I decide to import that folder into my personal account I could do it if I choose to.

Ah darn. All that research this morning and the solution was right there in Evernote:

Nutshell version of what I need - I am running 2 instances of Evernote: work and personal.  I need one keyboard shortcut to send my evernote screenshots as new notes in my Work account,  and another (default) shortcut that creates the note in my personal account. 

The problem - When 2 instances of Evernote are running, the screenshots are saved as new notes in the last account that was selected.

The solution - find a way to specify "create new screenshot note in x account". That could be too complicated. A simpler solution would be to just have a shared 'Screenshots' folder and have all screenshots saved there. More work for me in that I would have to go through it at some point and move the work related ones into the work account, but at least it solves my problem.

The new problem

I can't find a way to specify the notebook that should be used when creating the new screenshot notes.  I figured it would be easy enough using ENScript to do that, but it turns out it isn't. 

According to this Developer page https://dev.evernote.com/doc/articles/enscript.php I could (and have) created a windows shortcut to create a new screenshot note. 

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Evernote\Evernote\Evernote.exe" /task:ClipScreen

However, that page also specifies that "individual commands cannot be combined", so i can't add the ENScript function /n notebook which "Specifies the name of the notebook to create the note in" (oh I tried!).

On 9/17/2019 at 2:17 PM, cfjrb said:

This can absolutely be done already.   There is a bit of setup but it is worth it if the link will be used repeatedly.

Step 1: make a shortcut in Windows to the desired search using ENscript.   For example, to search for notes tagged as "bookmark" make a windows shortcut with the target

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Evernote\Evernote\ENScript.exe" showNotes /q tag:bookmarks

whenever you run this shortcut, evernote will display just the notes that match the search.  (You probably want to make sure in your EN options that "Open note links from other applications in a new window" is unchecked

 

Step 2: Get the full windows path that points to the shortcut.   Go to it in file explorer, then Ctrl-Shift-RightClick and "copy as path"

 

Step 3: Use the path obtained in step 2 to create an Evernote link out to the file system

the syntax is "file:///pathFromStep2"

highlight whatever you want to be the link in your EN Note.  use Ctrl-K to insert link

notice that you have to take out the quotation marks that windows puts in 

That does it!  Not that bad and it will really allow you to organize!

Brilliant!  However, I only got it to work when I added quotation marks around the search terms after showNotes /q:

eg:  "C:\Program Files (x86)\Evernote\Evernote\ENScript.exe" showNotes /q "stack:FilmNotebooks any:intitle:CWC intitle:DISC tag:tiff201*"

I created these sorts of shortcuts on my android tablet by running the saved search and then selecting "Add to homescreen".

Anyone know what the link to that shortcut would look like? (Obviously I can't right-click and select filepath on Android). I'd love to create a two column table: links to saved search in Windows and links in Android.

I would love this functionality as well. It would be so great especially for android, where searching for multiple words can be a pain. It's really hard to search for:  "notebook:recipes tag:made tag:@jonnie intitle:Chicken tag:#Italy

But if everyone in the house could just go to the kitchen tablet and select a link from a nice table like this:

that would open a main page with yet another table

Links on this last page would just execute a saved search. Search results would be displayed normally, the way they are now. My husband wouldn't have to browse through a bunch of tags or all those results when he searches for "chicken" (turns out 'chicken broth' is in every recipe!).

Now I know there are ways around this right now.  I could execute one of these searches right now, create a Table of Contents, and link it to the word sous-vide for example.  However, that TOC doesn't get updated when I add new sous-vide recipes, so I would constantly have to re-create TOCs.  Now there's a program called Filterize that creates dynamic TOCS. That works. It isn't cheap.  The thing is I like the results of a search in Evernote; I like seeing the pictures in snippet mode.  I like being able to sort my results by date created or by title.

We already have the ability to save searches, and we have the ability to create shortcuts to them. Is it really a different ballgame to stick some of those shortcuts in our notes?

8 minutes ago, Raphael Tsavkko said:

Yeap, I never use beta versions. I also don't use the web version, all my issies are in the desktop version.

Well, I don't use the web either and I took the two minutes it takes to login to the web, noticed it was beta (I don't remember ever turning that on), changed it back, exited, and my desktop syncing issues were gone. That's all I'm saying.

2 minutes ago, Raphael Tsavkko said:

I've re-installed, cleaned everything and downloaded all data from the server. It helped. I'm still getting some error messages like before, but the app freezes, though it doesn't crash. It is crashig when I use the search option (ctrl+f). Not the first time, but if I type it again my Evernote freezes and I have to force it to close an ope again. IT also happens when I'm editting a .docx and I save it, my Evernote completely freezes and a few times it crashes.

Did you check to see if you were using the beta version of Evernote web?  If so, revert to non-beta. It seems to have fixed the problem for me.

Also, note that I don't use Evernote web. Ever, really. But as far as I understand, when we sync that's what we sync with, so issues in the web can easily translate as issues with the desktop version, especially where syncing is involved.

dcon, now that is a neat trick. I can't wait to see it in action. 

For the moment, though, I'm not sure such heavy guns are required. I discovered that I was running the web beta and that was causing a whole bunch of syncing issues. I've since turned it off and I'm going to wait a week or so to see if I still get the crashes. I suspect I will not, and I've been 2 full days without one so far.

(I've told the techs via my open ticket; here's hoping they advise others with sync issues to disable evernote web beta as a start towards troubleshooting).

Brilliant. You are right. You have to complete the search by clicking on the magnifying glass on the keyboard, presumably to 'execute' the search.

I can tell, I can just tell that I'm never going to remember to do that...

Jefito, well now that is interesting.

DTLow, Yeah, I'm connected to the internet. Just regular notebooks; not offline, not "On device".  Proof: I just did another test with 2 notes: one with the word Fandower in the title, and one with the same word in the body only.  Checked that my phone got synced, it did. Looked at the files in my Cabinet notebook on my phone: both files are there.  Did a search: only the note with Fandower in the title appears.  Oh, and it doesn't matter if I complete the search (e.g., "fandower" instead of "fandow"), I get the same result.

Screenshots from my Pixel2, Evernote Android v8.11

12 hours ago, CalS said:

Is there a note title above or below the line with uid in it? 

Best I can tell uid in either the 123456 or alphanumeric 12345678-1234-1234-123456789012 version does not make it to the ENEX file.  Need someone with more expertise to help here.

No title. That's part of the issue - I can't find the note to fix it.  I selected about 2-3 months worth of notes and fixed those, hoping that would do the trick, but the log still shows this one. I'm really not tempted to fix my entire database - it just takes too long.   And yeah, the number is completely uninformative. Doesn't match anything else that I could see in the log.

Anyway, I'm sure i'll have to go back to support with this one. I swear if the front-liners tell me to re-create my database before they send anything to tech I'm going to scream.

Evernote for Android v8.11, still with the search issues... 

This time Android is searching in titles only.

I reproduced a number of times. Desktop search includes body of notes, Android does not.

E.g., I searched for 202008 and the desktop shows 2 notes, 1 with the search term in the title, the other with it in the body.  Android only finds the item that has the search term in the title. I've reproduced plenty of times.

I've been dealing with this issue for the past few months as well. Sometimes I get 10 crashes a day (a crash being Evernote simply disappearing). I've had tickets opened and after dealing with the "um, did you reboot" and "oh, just re-create your database" first line customer service rep nonsense for weeksI finally got through to tech only to be told that there was a new version out, could I try it.

The thing that is hard with this bug is that when you get it, you get it multiple times/day, multiple days/week and then for some reason you could be free of it for weeks. Then bang, it comes back.

What I'm seeing in the log is also  [ERROR  ] [18256] [440] Unable to load note: uid=119218

Can't fix it using Ctrl Help fix note.

If I knew which note it was I could remove it. How can I find out which note it is?

2 hours ago, JMichaelTX said:

@Ian Small, thank's for another great video.  In general, I love the direction you are headed in with respect to tags.

However, I do have one UI request:  Please don't waste so much vertical space on the listing of tags.  This would apply to all devices, but especially to mobile devices.
It is far, far more important to those of us who have lots of tags (> 1,000) to see as many tags on the screen at one time as possible, and still be readable and touchable.

Also, please greatly improve the contrast of the text.  The light shade of grey used for the Tag Names make it very hard to read.

 

+1 to all of this

Yeah, I do that too. Actually, I was sort of wrong.  When selecting multiple tags it actually works nice in android because after selecting tag 1, the resulting list is filtered so there is less scrolling. You don't have hierarchies, but you don't need them at that point. I'm trying to think of what the issue is... whatever it is, I get a pop-up screen of my tags and that one has all of them in a flat list. I just don't remember when that happens.

One feature that would be nice is the ability to keep filtering on a search result.  I don't bother using search on my phone because there is no way to narrow down the results.

but the hierarchy disappears when selecting tags as filters

I get the hierarchy as well

Look at you apple heads showing off....

On 6/28/2019 at 8:59 PM, CalS said:

Or just burn a tag for @terry.  Not the worst thing that ever happened in the world. That way an @ in a tag drop down will show all people.  

On 6/28/2019 at 9:05 PM, DTLow said:

The limit is 100,000 tags.  I'm not concerned with using up tags

 

All true, but my scrolling finger can only do so much on my Android phone... 😀