Momofthrees

4 hours ago, PinkElephant said:

I'm fed up with these discussions. We are users here, you can insist in whatever you want.

Sure it's a bug, and here are the bug busters:

https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

I don't need a new request. This is the forum to report bugs or possible issues with the current version. Nothing pisses me off more than a smart &R$# that has to post a link to a different forum, instead of just scrolling on past.  I need them to fix their programming, not request a new feature.

Yes, Please. Perhaps I want an image that isn't even in the note to be the thumbnail.  I'd love to be able to pick it.  

Why do you have an issue with a bug report. Are you having to fix it? Geesh. Bugs don’t get fixed unless they are reported. I signed up to be a beta tester for this reason!

No its a bug.

On 2/2/2024 at 2:30 PM, eric99 said:

Me too, it’s much easier on the eyes. I use it all the time, as do most developers these days

Not me, I can't stand dark mode. It is horrible for my eyes and gives me a headache.

8 hours ago, PinkElephant said:

I go for pink as well. Purple makes me look old 🤣

RFLOL We will let you pick your own other color.

In order to have divider lines besides the one choice we have, I have created image files that I use as dividers.  But when I replaced all the images in a note, the thumbnail for that image is still the old image. I checked on my iphone and the thumbnail there has updated, so it's just a bug on the Windows version.

43 minutes ago, AlbertR said:

People who like to read white on black should ask their eye doctors. I think they recommend black on white, because that's what we're used to with paper...

Why do we have to choose? Let the user pick the colors and I can have pink on purple if that works for me.

Why would I pay more for a Professional Subscription to solve a problem I don't have. You were the one with the issue of how I use tags, not me. My issue was being able to move them to their Stack, which was solved yesterday by another user.

11 hours ago, Dave Green said:

Are you sure it is not 1000 notebooks now?  https://evernote.com/compare-plans

Dave, You are correct. That's what I get for posting off the top of my head and not looking in EN.   It is 1000 and I have 859. Not sure where my brain got 200 from.   So yes, I am still almost at the time.  Most ancestor stacks have 5-6 notebooks, so I basically can add 23-28 new surnames before I hit the max.  

5 hours ago, PinkElephant said:

@Momofthrees You have created your own tags hell. By doing what you do, your tags expand with „2 at the power of n“. That’s the least efficient way.

 

Both work for searching, but the combination works better. I can for example search for everything I saved on day 1-3 of every February of every year.

Conclusion: You decided for the most extreme way of building complexity INTO your tagging, instead of keeping the tags simple, and create the complexity by building the adequate searches. And now you try to make a maximum complex system more efficient. This fails, because the answer is not to shovel more tags from left to right in less time, but to reach the goal with only a fraction of your tags.

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So, let's say I want to know every census source I have for 1850 Davidson County, TN.  I search for 1850 and Davidson County and Tennessee.  I get 198 documents.  Or I go to my 1850 Census M432 Roll 0875 (Davidson County, TN) tag and I get 8 results. The 8 results I needed on the first try over 5 different family groups.

Searching has never worked effectively for me. Because the bulk of my notes have images with 1800s cursive, EN tries to OCR and sends tons of negative hits. Sometimes the handwriting is so bad it is barely readable.

By tagging both the source note and microfilm note and ancestral note, I can in seconds get the information I need and only the information I need.

I am not. I saw that a few months ago and posted it to another forum and two days later it was back to 200 and I don't want to run out and not be able to create ones I definitly need like a new surname folder at some point.  I sure hope you are right though!

On 1/21/2024 at 11:38 PM, PinkElephant said:

There are only stacks of notebooks - never if tags.

If you mean nested tags: In general (opposite to legacy) nesting tags is supported in all clients including mobile. Plus it is reflected in search (opposite to legacy) by including or excluding child tags when searching.

When I create a new tag, I place it right away where it belongs. No need to move hoards of tags around.

Do you use a system for nesting, or do you frequently change the nesting concept ? 

Really stack/nest. Symantics.   I do have a system for nesting tags.  I mainly use notebooks for sorting documents, but since I am limited 200 notebooks, I have to get creative. I am at 190 now, in case you are wondering.  I use Evernote only for genealogy and have 30+ years of research, both family and locations in Evernote.  Years ago, everyone was told to use tags because they could be nested and you had more. But frankly, it doesn't work all that well for me on my phone. I find it a bit clunky to be honest.  But I still keep both systems going because OCD.   Just weekend before last, I visited the state archives and copied deed index books for one ancestal line.  Once I had entered the information both found and not found, I had covered 146 microfilms.  And found 28 need deeds.  So 174 notes (146 for microfilms 28 for the new deeds), and yes, 146 new tags. (Microfilm notes and deed notes get the same Microfilm tag, creating a cross index of documents found on a specific roll of microfilm over time.)
Here's a real tag nest (and if we can ever nest notebooks more than one level deep, I will adopt something similar). For each county I research, the state archives has about 1000 microfilm rolls, so eventually, if I live 15 lives  I could easily have 6000 tags just for microfilms alone. Add in maps, County Histories, a few more states, and you can see where my system gets big quickly! It could be overkill, but it works for me and keeps all the research organized. And this was way more information than you wanted

>Family Files Father

>Family Files Mother

>State Research

>>Research in Tennesssee

>>>Davidson County

>>>>Davidson County Books

>>>>Davidson County Microfilm

>>>>> Davidson County 001 Deed Book A-C

>>>>>Davidson County 002 Deed Book D-F

>>>Lincoln County

>>>>Lincoln County Microfilm

>>>>>Lincoln County 001...

That works great if the tag is right next to the tag you want to stack it in, but I have probably 1000 tags so I have to drag it through pages to get to the correct stack.  Legacy did this so well, and if it were still available, I'd literally go over there, do what I need and then come back to 10 like I used to do.  Not being able to bulk move tags is a big issue for a product that is supposed to help me do everything more efficiently.

But thanks for your response. At least I know I was doing it right.

I can’t see how to drag and drop . How do you get to the main tags window in Windows 10

In Legacy, we could easily drop and drag tags into stacks.  The only way I can see in the latest WIndows version is to right click on the tag name, and select move. Find the stack in the list and select it.

I have hundreds of tags. There has got to be a better way to organize tags into stacks other than one by one!  The least EN could do is remember where I put the last tag and open up to there the next time, or let me select several tags at once to move.  This is literally 10 steps back from where EN was 2 years ago with Legacy.

1 hour ago, PinkElephant said:

This means replacing the local database by a fresh copy from the cloud server. It is in some cases the method to get rid of a nagging problem 

You can do as they told. The only issue is probably that it will take several days until the local database is reconstructed. Better not to have any urgent offline job while it still downloads.

Which is why I haven't bothered. I ahve 22,000 notes and have been in EN all day working.  I cant wait several days to rebuild my database. And I found a work around for now, by dragging the images to the notebook. So it's not pressing to me to have them fix it, but it is very much a bug.

3 hours ago, PinkElephant said:

It’s something you seem to utterly lack - it’s called experience.

Or maybe it’s accidental that things work for me, and you are here ranting about yours not working for you, and searching for reasons it can’t work for others.

Sorry, you have an individual problem. If it couldn’t be solved here, support is your next stop.

It doesn't work for me either. Here is what support told me to do. Note: I have not done this.

Check that your content is present on Evernote web.

Go to File Explorer

Search for %AppData% folder

in the folder look for Evernote and delet the entire folder.

Reinstall Evernote.

13 hours ago, PinkElephant said:

Dragging files onto an EN notebook is not using an import folder. It works differently, as you describe.

For regular exports take a look at the GitHub Evernote Backup project.

Yes, but I can recreate the problem the OP mentioned with import folders importing mulitple copies of the same note over and over.  He is not the only one having this issue.

3 hours ago, drmrbrewer said:

It’s seriously infuriating.  How difficult can it really be to check the name and modification date/time of a file in the folder and not re-import the file again if it is the same as a file you’ve already imported?  I reckon I could code something up in no time that doesn’t get fooled like Evernote does.  If it’s so complicated then maybe explain to us users why it’s so complicated and maybe we might be more forgiving.  And yes I am sure that the modification date/time hasn’t changed for a file that is imported multiple times.

I found I can just drag the images from my hard drive to the notebook and it would create one copy of the document.  So I have moved from update folders altogether. But I wholeheartedly agree with you!

54 minutes ago, Twitchly said:

Yes, yes, yes. 

Yet, Ironically the forum is exactly the same and no one seems to complain about the colors here.

2 hours ago, agsteele said:

It is a beta test. You can follow the link offered and sign up to join the test or wait a little longer for the final version to be made available to all.

I did follow the link and signed up. Haven't been accepted yet.  We'll see.  I will definitely request that it be an option, not mandatory for all users. I think people like to be able to choose or not choose colors based on their own preferences. My office is blue. I tend to pick blue tones because of the aesthetic. But it's not for everyone and some colors can be quite cartoony and no one needs that!

On 6/21/2023 at 9:01 AM, drmrbrewer said:

Yeah I think the clue might be (as mentioned above) that notes are imported, sit there for a few minutes, and then later just randomly have a more recent update time, as if some process is going on in the background which updates something about some notes (maybe metadata rather than content), without me doing anything, and maybe the duplication happens at the same time.  It's difficult to follow what's going on when it's changing even as you look at it.

Yeah that's exactly what is happening. WHen you are importing large numbers of notes, it is starting the process over before it finishes the second time, and isn't verifying that the notes are already created.

On 1/17/2024 at 5:20 PM, Dave-in-Decatur said:

@Bill Myers, @WilliamL, and others who like the new UI, can you say more specifically what you like about it? "Clean" is too vague for me to process. I'm not interested in arguing over it, I just want to know what those who like it actually like. Maybe I'll be able to see it too.

Bill, like you I tend to not notice stuff I see all the time. The icons have been around for quite awhile, I think, but I don't know when they arrived.

Well I will tell you why I liked it when I had it. The bolder fonts on the notes list was much easier to read.  I find it difficult to read white text on a dark background.  I liked the lighter colors. Granted the ideal would be allow the user to define the UI.  I only use the WIndows 10 app, so can't say on other platforms.