Dave-in-Decatur

Just now the Web client updated to 10.51.7, and announced that backlinks were in place. Same experience as @Frki2 initially: no backlinks yet. Maybe it's something that's just a potential until the servers grind them out for each updated client for each user?

1 hour ago, LucaBen said:

I am not completely negative about the new Evernote, there are things that I like and things that I don't, but I am tired of funding a project that keep steering away from the core business I used to pay for (taking notes, keeping them organised), and instead of improving on that, they keep adding new features such as task management, to make Evernote an app that does everything and does it poorly.

This is the part I'd like to hear more about. What are the things you like and the things you don't like? What specific new features would you put up on a wishlist for Evernote to implement?

As for the new features, I use some and not others. For example, I expect to use tasks someday, but I don't yet. Meanwhile, I take notes and organize them every day just fine; none of the new features interferes with my doing that. I'm genuinely puzzled by what it is that you're looking for.

Only three comments, and probably not very helpful ones:

1. A great deal has changed in 10 years; indeed a great deal has changed in 2 years. See if you can find a 10-year-old copy of Evernote to install just to confirm.
2. Fixing a bug is entirely different from creating a feature, so a claim that Evernote doesn't fix bugs in a timely way is irrelevant to requests for new features.
3. If this works, great. But honestly, if it does I hope you'll make the same request to Microsoft and Google. Would you expect them to respond positively?

I've seen a few posts similar to this, I think, and I believe that the workaround (which is not obvious and not very efficient) is to make some edit in the new note--type a couple of letters and delete them, change the title, anything--and the proper template options will appear. This is according to my recall only, which is not always total these days!

Hello, and welcome to the forums. There is an existing thread on this subject. It would be more helpful if you would join that conversation.

25 minutes ago, Harry Slaughter said:

This thread is old, but still so relevant. Evernote abandoned users like me who've paying for and using it since its early days.

They'll be taking the Google approach to legacy support for 9. In other words, in a year or so they will drop support entirely and probably block access for version 9 and below.

I for one will be stuck with an app that is no longer supported, and upgrade path that is no good due to all the missing features, and 10 years worth of Evernote data locked into some odd XML format with no way out. 

I suffered with Evernote shortcomings (like the horrific editor) for years thinking they would get around to fixing them. Instead, I got the finger. I just hope by the time they kill v9, there is a way to migrate my old data into a better platform.

So, if I read you rightly, you're still using Evernote v. 6.25 (there never was a version 9), which indeed is no longer being updated or given tech support; you refuse to upgrade to v. 10 because of features that were missing two years ago, but many of which are back in place now, along with an array of features that v. 6 never had; you find the v. 6 editor to be "horrific" but refuse to upgrade to v. 10 to test its editor, which I find vastly improved....

IMHO (which, I know, you did not ask for), before you accuse Evernote of giving you the finger, you owe them the courtesy, at least, of trying v. 10, in the Web version if nothing else.

On 1/6/2023 at 2:20 AM, IgorKozel said:

Hi, I do have same issue. I think Evernote team dont care about Europeans.

What @agsteele said. But I will add that there have been multiple, persistent problems with non-English keyboards in Evernote over many years. Could there be any hope in the fact that Evernote is now owned by a European company (Bending Spoons)?

This hasn't been a problem for me in my work (which doesn't involve coding), so I don't get the seriousness of it, but I accept that it is so in other people's work. Most of those who have reported it in this thread seem to think that they are addressing Evernote's support or development team here, but that is not the case. These are essentially user-to-user forums. For those who have paid accounts, have you gone to Evernote support and created a ticket (https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/requests/new)? They may at least be able to explain why this function works as it does.

6 hours ago, rbianchi said:

I have the backlinks working... but in version 10.50.10. It is not weird?

edit: in Mac desktop

As of just now, me too, on a Windows 10 laptop (but not yet on the Web client). I look forward to using the new feature.

I'm not sure how this will help those who still use Evernote. These are basically user to user forums, and AFAIK Evernote staff don't browse them to estimate when it's time to fix something. The sync issues are real, although not for me. I gather that Evernote has been working on a new technology for syncing that is hoped to fix the problems (and hopefully not cause problems for people who aren't having them now). I'm able to wait for that. If you're taking notes in a meeting, maybe in a place with poor connectivity, would you be able to work offline so that Evernote is not constantly trying to sync?

I like this idea, and have voted it up using the arrow at the top.

14 hours ago, Developer2023 said:

The link - https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/208314748 is not clear about the following

#1 - Does the shared users needs to have evernote account as well?

#2 - Can we share the entire note book as public URL as well as individual URL who needs credentials or account. Basically two ways of sharing - forcing one to have evernote account . the other is sharing as a public URL which anyone can access

 

I'm not sure about this (I don't have experience with sharing notebooks). Unless someone offers a definitive answer here, it might be simplest just to test it out: share the notebook to someone with no Evernote account, and see if they can access it.

49 minutes ago, bbbccc said:

I have the same exact problem.  This started over a week ago. 

Evernote is crashing BOTH Chrome and Opera!!   Please help.

I don't use Chrome but I do use Evernote in Opera (on a slow Windows 7 machine), with a gazillion other tabs open. I don't find that it crashes, or even freezes. Whatever this is, it seems to be frustratingly random. Anyone who experiences it, if they have a paid subscription, should start a support ticket, so Evernote's techs can be aware of it: https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/requests/new.

All I can say is it works well for me, and I don't have those issues. Maybe I'm just lucky, who knows. But I'm staying, and glad to be able to use Evernote productively every day. This is not meant to discount your negative experiences, only to present my own experiences.

Hi, and welcome to the forums. To me, this sounds like a connectivity glitch somewhere between you and Evernote's servers, hopefully temporary. But how long has it been going on?

Thanks. I'll look out for it -- updates tend to roll out over time (and space); maybe by the time it hits Windows desktop it'll be fully implemented.  Or maybe it was just a case of a premature announcement, as someone suggested.

Hi, and welcome to the forums. There's pretty full info on sharing in the Evernote Help & Learning center.

18 hours ago, eric99 said:

The real problem with the legacy clients was the lack of a unified specification, not the implementation.  Even today, I still haven't seen a unified specification or a detailed user manual.

TBH, I hardly ever see a user manual of any kind for any significant software any more. I miss them. Evernote help and learning is pretty good at answering questions about features, but you have to know that the feature exists first. But they are doing updates frequently enough now (no, not every day as some people seem to experience, but every couple of weeks or so) that even an online user manual would have to be constantly updated.

9 hours ago, Frki2 said:

On new update today there was:

New 🌟

• Introducing backlinks! Now you can see which notes link to the one you're working in, so it's easier to connect ideas and keep your information organized.

Did anybody managed to figure how this is working? Or where this is shown?

What is the version number in which this update appears? I don't have anything later than v. 10.50.10, in the Web client and Windows desktop app.

Multi-level bullet points do exist; see the screen clip pasted below. Indented, fully-formatted numbered lists would be great, I agree, but while this is clearly an issue for people who need it for serious work, we here don't know how large a percentage of Evernote users that is. Or it may be that such lists will appear next week, who knows?

Thanks, @Boot17. To me, the most interesting part of Ferrari's post is what you cite: that he, the co-founder and CEO of Bending Spoons, has used Evernote himself for 10 years. That suggests to me that he knows Evernote's capabilities and its history well, and that there is no radical re-conceptualization in the works. He must be perfectly well aware of the v. 10 move to the Electron framework and would not be interested in undoing that and starting -- again -- from scratch. As for Evernote as "a product and brand with great potential" and the new heights, that's vague enough to make me a little nervous. One person's new heights is another person's   . Perhaps most intriguing is the claim that "the technologies and know-how Bending Spoons has developed resonate with Evernote wonderfully." One can only trust that this is largely true, since what they have by way of tech and know-how is known only to them. Caaauuuutiously optimistic.

7 hours ago, meghan matt said:

Right before the holiday break, I put weeks worth of written work notes into Evernote. I worked on the notes for a few days and then logged out for the holiday. I shut down my computer, and when I opened it today, every single note was gone. I have looked through all the old forums to no avail, and Evernote offers ZERO support, which I didn't know when I signed up. Please help me. I need all of that work back.

If you shut the computer down before the sync process completed, it's just possible that that process was interrupted. Note history is maintained for all accounts, free and paid, but is only accessible to paid subscribers. You could subscribe for just one month to get at the note history, which should show at least some near-final stage of the work you did over several days.

21 minutes ago, agsteele said:

Did you follow the link? It gives guest access.

I just tried, and without a subscription login it only works for certain issues, e.g., account. Honestly, @meghan matt, if I were you I'd call this an account issue of some kind and submit a ticket. As long as you're 1,000% sure you didn't accidentally create a new account with no notes in it.

As has been mentioned several times in this thread, this kind of hack is usually traceable to using the same password for Evernote as for other services. If someone gets your email address and a password you commonly use, they can get into your Evernote account. Hopefully, you've already changed your Evernote password to something unique.

I agree, it might be good if Evernote issued security alerts for unusual logins. OTOH, if they did I guarantee someone would pop in here to say "I travel all over the world on business and log in to Evernote every day. Why does Evernote nag me with these warnings?"

Hi, and welcome to the forums. I don't think the subscription level matters for this. What does matter, though, is the Evernote app you are using. PDF export seems only to be available on the Mac and Windows desktop clients. It isn't available on the Web client. Is that what you are using?