Mark Forster

That would indeed be an answer to the problem, but the problem is remembering to do it! I'll do my best but I dislike in principle having to do work arounds for bugs which shouldn't exist in the first place. It is btw only the "x" which comes up when hovering which is a problem. The "Remove from Shortcuts" menu item has always worked fine. I've never had a problem like this with earlier versions of Evernote, and I've been using it since it was called Tornado Notes..

The mystery deepens. I've done your experiment myself and got exactly the same result as you did. I am though quite certain of the accuracy of my report. So either there was some additional factor which I didn't take into account, or it's an intermittent fault. Nevertheless it's happened to me twice now (at an interval of a couple of months) so I don't think I'm imagining things. I don't change my shortcuts very often. Once a month I delete one tab and add another, plus other occasional changes. In answer to your "usual questions": HP Desktop running Windows 11 Evernote 10

I don't know if anyone else has come across this, but there is a serious problem with Shortcuts in the current Desktop version of Evernote. I don't remember this in the older versions. It's caught me out twice so far, and only on the second time did I find a solution. The problem is that when you press the X button which appears when you hover your mouse over a Shortcut tab, it does not do what one would expect it to do - which is to remove the note from Shortcuts. Neither does it move the note to Trash, which is reversible. What it actually does (without any warning) is to remove the note from Storage altogether. This means that the note is completely lost to you. This is completely unacceptable in my opinion, but I did find a solution which only works a) if you are very quick off the mark and b) if you have the Evernote App on your phone (mine is a Samsung). 1. Shut your desktop down by turning the power off. 2. Go to your phone where if you're lucky you will find the note is still there. 3. Make a duplicate of the note on the phone. (it's one of the items on the Note Menu) 4. Restart your desktop and the phone should sync the duplicate note back onto your desktop.

Thanks everyone for your help and comments. I shall stick with Evernote for the moment and see how I get on with the changes.

Well I've been a paying customer since the beginning. But if 90+% of the users are free, then isn't the fault the charging structure, rather than the app itself?

But of course if you are presented with a new and different app, then you might investigate other new and different apps to see if they are better.

Although I have all three, it's the desktop version I use 99% of the time. I've never had a problem with the other two though.

Yes, I remember commenting unfavourably about it when they asked for feed-back. Bear in mind that you and the others who are replying to my original are (presumably) people who have stayed with Evernote. But every single Evernote user I knew left - I was the only one who stayed.

You could allocate/change both the notebook and the tag from the top of the note. This was fast and intuitive.

Thanks Mike, that's extremely helpful. So basically everything can be done in every possible way except the way it was done in the old version? Makes sense I suppose in a weird sort of way.

Thanks everyone for their answers. I've continued to struggle with the new desktop version since I posted my query 21 hours ago. So perhaps some kind person could answer these questions for me? 1) How do I see all notes? 2) How do I allocate a note to a notebook? 3) How do I tag a note? It's ridiculous that someone who's been using Evernote since it started should have to ask these questions.

Evernote has now forced me to change from the "Legacy" version (i.e. the version that actually worked) to Evernote 10. I tried v.10 briefly when it first came out, and made a considerable number of comments as requested - all of which were ignored. Now that I have been forced to leave Legacy, I've found that 10 is even worse than it was when I first tried it. In fact it's an absolute nightmare. Nothing in the right place, nothing is intuitive, it's very ugly, difficult to use, and missing some of the features which I used a lot (e.g. Presentation Mode). It's forcing me to break routines which I've been using for decades, and just generally takes twice as long to do even the simplest job - and that's after I've had to waste my time searching for buttons which are no longer where they used to be. I've been with Evernote from its very earliest days. I have got a vast amount of stuff in it. Moving would be a major effort - yet I think I'm going to have to. What are the latest recommendations for alternatives?