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Dave-in-Decatur

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  1. Hi, @Adrien Chartier, and welcome to the forums. FYI, these are very public spaces, and it's probably safer not to post your email address or other personal info here.
  2. Hi, and welcome to the forums. These are primarily user-to-user, and not a reliable way of contacting Evernote directly with specific requests or complains. You can open a support ticket to address them directly: https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/requests/new. As for F11--why not? It works the same way in browsers. As noted previously, this seems to be a problem limited to Windows 11, and it may be that Microsoft has chosen to add something novel to the way new windows open in some recent update, so not necessarily anything "precious" on Evernote's part.
  3. This is a feature request forum; you can do a search and find one or two existing threads on this or similar problems in other forums. Take a look at them, and add your concerns there, plus there may be solutions already offered.
  4. For the official version of what @agsteele has so neatly summarized, see these Help articles: https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/209005157 and https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/209005247.
  5. Welcome to the forums. If that's all you really want to do, then honestly Evernote may be more than you need. One of its chief virtues is its ability to sync so that your notes are available on multiple devices running different operating systems. Just to have to-do lists on your phone, there are all kinds of apps on Google Play. Many of them also want to sync your notes to cloud storage, but you don't have to if you don't want to. I like Color Note, which has decent to-do list facilities, and lets you color-code notes for various purposes.
  6. None of us here actually knows whether the software worked as intended. It would help if you answered the requests for more information about how many devices were involved. If the answer is >1, then Evernote may well have worked exactly as intended. "no part being made by Evernote to keep track of or keep their software functional": That is a very sweeping statement based on a single incident. Evernote puts out updates to its software on a frequent basis, precisely in order to keep it functional and help it function better. "their web interface goof'ed up": This happened in the Web client, not the desktop app? Then perhaps some hiccup in the browser is at fault (and again, how did the computer come to be on all night?). Why should Evernote work for free at all? They are not selling your usage data, searches, timeline, etc., like Google. They have no income but from paying users. "tornado of feelings": You asked a question, someone answered you factually, and you responded with outrage. An old saying about sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind comes to mind....
  7. Hi, and welcome to the forums. Have you reported this to Evernote support, so they can see how widespread it is? https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
  8. Hi, and welcome to the forums. This is a general technical support forum, with other users contributing to it. There are feedback and feature request forums: https://discussion.evernote.com/forums/forum/449-product-feedbackfeature-requests/. You can go there and pick your particular device's subforum to post this suggestion in.
  9. There are a couple of missing bits of information here. Did you leave your work computer on, or did it get turned back on overnight through some company-wide IT activity? Was your properly synced updated note on this same work computer or on another device? Was the outdated note on the work computer or another device? I'm speculating here, but if the note was updated and synced on another device, and then the work computer woke back up, I wonder if it's possible that the outdated version there was given a new time stamp and synced, and thus overwrote the updated version. The key to the whole problem is the work computer being on overnight, especially if the note was edited on another device during that period. It's entirely possible that Evernote operated exactly as expected. I too miss the "conflicted note" feature, but generally when a conflict occurs there is an immediate duplication of the note, and a notification of this to the person who is at the keyboard. It's not easy for that to happen with no one at the computer, but it seems like it did in this case. Something odd happened overnight, is what this boils down to, it seems to me. That's about the most that the people here taking our own time to offer FREE advice can say. For $9, you can retrieve the past history of your note (which Evernote created for free), and contact Support to let them know exactly how you feel about having to pay $9. Yelling at people who have told you all that they know about it is not that productive for anyone. Of course, that's only my opinion; but hey, it's free!
  10. Hi, and welcome to the forums. As has been suggested previously in this thread, your fellow users here can't really do anything but sympathize. Raising a support ticket is the way to get some ideas from Evernote about what may be going on: https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/requests/new. If you're able to do that, and they make a suggestion that works, it would be helpful to report that here.
  11. Hi, and welcome to the forums. Can you say some more about how you're doing the search? If I have my list of notes open, then go to the search bar, enter the search tag:tagname, and press Enter, I get the list of the notes assigned to that tag. Of course, the tag name has to be accurate and complete (or have the first few letters followed by *).
  12. Hi, and welcome to the forums. In the Web client, click on Tags in the sidebar, which will open out a new column with the list of tags. Hover the mouse over a tag, and it will become highlighted and have a ... menu link. Click on the ... and a menu will pop up with options that include renaming.
  13. This is not the same issue as in the original post at all. That post concerned app links within Evernote, IOW links from one note to another. You're talking about links to local files on the computer. All that said.... What Evernote app, and what version of it, are you using, and on what operating system? I find that in the Windows desktop app v. 10.57 (and also v. 6.25), a link with file:/// followed by a properly formatted, fully qualified file path, e.g., file:///C:\Users\myusername\Documents\Texts\Light.doc can be inserted in a note, linked to a string of text such as "the Light document," and when I click on it the file opens in the appropriate app. However, when I try the same thing on the same computer with the Web client, I always get an error message "The link to file "C:\Users\myusername\Documents\Texts\Light.doc" cannot be opened on this device." (This is a known issue.) I never get a popup asking permission to open internal links. Hence my question about your setup where you're seeing this.
  14. Proving the truth of what I will start calling "the Decatur postulate," that no matter what improvement is proposed for Evernote, a non-zero number of people will consider it a potential disaster. I loooove these forums.
  15. Thanks, @idoc, @eric99, and others, this helps me get a picture of the usefulness of Evernote for this kind of purpose, in contrast to mere cloud storage. To be clear, I didn't mean to imply that Evernote was not suited for this purpose, though I still wonder if that was its original intent. As you say, though, "original intent" or not, it provides a great facility for such work. I take your word that v. 10 is less suited to this than v. 6.25. My main point was that v. 10 is an improvement in many ways for my note-taking, and at this point in its development (unlike its woebegone initial appearance) it is definitely superior to v. 6.25 for that purpose.
  16. What @agsteele said: we're other users here, with -0- influence over Evernote's marketing. Since you do have a paid account, you can open a support ticket here: https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/requests/new. Lots of people have posted about this in the forums lately. If they all complain to Evernote support, something might actually get done; at least Evernote will be able to gauge the depth of the annoyance.
  17. My thoughts (hoping not to develop into a counter-rant!): I started using Evernote because it was called Evernote, not Ever-records-mgmt. It takes notes on multiple devices in multiple locations and lets me edit them on other devices in other locations. I get that lots of people use it to store documents as attachments so as to have them more readily searchable than in a simple cloud document server (I guess). But IMHO that is a side-purpose, not Evernote's main reason for existing. Fonts and colors are attractive. They're also useful, for instance in distinguishing various topics or highlighting significant material within a note. And attractiveness itself is a virtue--I disagree that work must be drab in order to be productive, which strikes me as one of the 20th century's less sustainable innovations. One note of irony: lots of people post in these forums wishing there were more formatting options in v. 10: more font colors, more fonts, and better outlining features in bulleted lists. Bottom line: "the old is better" for some reasons. It is not better for every reason.
  18. @Okonomiyaki, double-posting on the same issue is discouraged: https://discussion.evernote.com/profile/912350-okonomiyaki/.
  19. This is unusual. It would help a little to know what operating system you're on (Windows, Mac, etc.). You might need to do a complete uninstall (many here recommend using Revo Uninstaller rather than the standard Windows uninstall) and re-download the current version from evernote.com, in case something has become corrupted in your local installation.
  20. Hello, and welcome to the forums. What is your Evernote version number? As @agsteele said, if you have an older Android phone (like mine, Android version 9 or earlier), your Evernote version should be 8.13.3, which is the "terminal" version for these older devices. It has not been updated since June 2020. So I presume you mean an update to other versions of Evernote on other devices. I can confirm what you are seeing; see the screenshots below. The relationship between checkboxes/checklists in Android v. 8 and in v. 10 has been ongoing for some time, and may well have changed recently. V. 10 has checklists (which can have automatic strikethrough when boxes are checked) and checkboxes, which display as boxes with X in them when "checked" and cannot have strikethrough. Their underlying formatting does get updated from time to time, but the Android v. 8 app is not updated in how it handles them. Android v. 8 interprets current v. 10 checklists as bulleted lists only, with no boxes, and interprets v. 10 checkboxes as checkboxes, which can be checked in Android v. 8. Frankly, it's confusing. Agreeing with @agsteele, it's best to use v. 10 checkboxes, inserted from the blue + button (not the editing toolbar, which is checklists). However, what is worse is that v. 10 automatically converts checkboxes to check lists when you start a new line at the end of an item. This can be defeated by typing any text at all, even a . or a -, at the beginning of the line before the checkbox. I hope this is clear and helpful! As viewed in v. 10 (Web): As viewed in Android:
  21. Yes! Working superbly in Opera on a Windows 7 desktop and Edge on a Windows 11 laptop. Thanks!
  22. OK. Earlier you said Edge was working OK, and I'm not having problems on Edge (or Opera, which is also Chromium based). All of which only adds to the mystery. Please do let us know what you hear in response to your support ticket.
  23. I would encourage you to report this to Evernote support, if possible (https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/requests/new). It's not happening to me, and it may or may not be widespread, but enough people experience it that it's clearly serious. They are working on a new sync methodology; hopefully that may fix this sort of thing.
  24. Thanks. I'm going with "still not available on the Web.," in the confidence that they will soon appear there.
  25. WRT Web, I've had my Web client updated to 10.51.7 on 2 Windows computers, but I still don't get backlinks on either one of them. Meanwhile, on my Win10 machine I have the desktop app v. 10.51, and backlinks are functioning properly (in fact, they started to appear even while I was still on v. 10.50!) So whatever server-side processing was needed to generate backlinks in my notes has happened, but like @AlbertR I'm not seeing them in the Web client yet. @Scott T., can you comment on the Web client issue?
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