Mark Brough

Did you confirm that unticking "Preferences/Check spelling when typing" successfully disabled spell checking?

Of course things do not get improved like that. That is a totally naive suggestion. I have wasted time on several occasions carefully reporting things to Evernote, in the spirit of cooperation, only to be insulted by thoughtless advice and questions from staff who have not bothered to consider my problem report. I find this lack of respect for cooperative customers to be insulting. As evidence - this very issue - a significant issue which should not happen in 2021, with software which has just been rewritten using modern technology - it has been extant for a year, with no helpful response from Evernote whtsoever.

As a further insult from Evernote ... even though I have disabled the spell checker, and even though "Preferences/Check spelling when typing" remains unticked, Evernote still checks spelling as I type on some notes, not others. So naff! For these notes, CPU activity remains high. Ticking and then re-unticking "Preferences/Check spelling when typing" fixes this problem. (I have not yet discovered how long it fixes it for. Until close/reopen?)

For me, Eric Schutte's workaround has worked. (Disable spell checking.) Sounds as though there are several problems in this software which each cause similar symptoms.

I too have developed, over many months, a suspicion that the problem is due to spell check. It really is pathetic that Evernote have never investigated this problem and posted a helpful response to us. Evernote is really quite a simple database application, and in no way needs to consume as much CPU resources as this.

Thanks for that Goz. Joplin looks good. I will investigate further.

Evernote is pretty fundamental to the way I function, but has become just a big headache. And not only this performance *****-up. How can they have spent so much on rebuilding the product, and yet got it so wrong? Problem is - there's no alternative to Evernote. Why is there no competitor who simply creates a database of simple text notes. Without unfathomable complexity (Notion), infantile inflexibility (Keep) or clumsy structure (OneNote)?

Me too. Only happens with long notes. Crazy CPU tends to begin when I click in a note to edit it. Although sometimes just displaying the note is sufficient. Continues with Evernote minimised. Stops when I click outside a note to cease editing. Doesn't stop when I click in a different, shorter note, to cease editing in the long note. Windows 10, 8GB RAM.