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Dave-in-Decatur

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  1. @MikePeiman, I'm a big fan of options, and I too would like to see the interface be more customizable. I'm optimistic enough to hope that that may be coming, but at the moment there are places where I sorely miss it (such as customizable styles and selectable global default styles). That said, as one person who tends to speak in absolute and dogmatic terms to another: This particular spot seems ill-chosen to plant one's "what a terrible UX" flag, since (as others have pointed out) all one needs to do is double-click rather than single-click in order to open a new note immediately, or use Ctrl/Cmd+N, which keeps fingers on the keyboard. As a UX professional, you undoubtedly notice and react to what seem like bad design decisions more readily than most of us ordinary users. The relatively few who post suggestions or complaints here represent only a tiny fraction of Evernote's users, though probably a larger fraction of people who are annoyed, but not enough to spend time here. It may be necessary to realize that what seems broke to a pro may not need fixing for most others. You've posted in these forums occasionally for 10 years, but still treat them as places to deliver direct rebukes or demands to Evernote, when they are obviously user-to-user almost entirely. Direct feedback can be given in other ways, such as opening a support ticket. The only purpose for such a post is to enjoy the pleasure of delivering a stern public finger-wagging (as I am doing at this moment). You've been using Evernote for 15 years, yet you find its UI/UX unendurably "wrong, failings, terrible." I can only conclude that you find something else about Evernote reasonably useful, or you wouldn't still be using it. Those of us who spend time here and often "defend" Evernote--such as by pointing out that there are already ways of doing what people want to do--nevertheless do also acknowledge things that we agree need fixing. As a long-time EN user, I would bet that you could offer some helpful advice or positive suggestions once in awhile as well as jumping on bandwagons of beefing.
  2. Perhaps the closest you can get is to coordinate an import folder with a notebook. Click the gear icon at top left, select Preferences, then Import folders. Then you can associate a particular notebook with a particular folder, so that all files put into that folder will be put into the designated notebook.
  3. There are known problems with speed on Android, and no clear solutions yet. If you search for a thread with "Android" and "slow" in the title, you'll find a lot of posts.
  4. @Boot17, you're a genius! On the Web client, anyway, this inserts a total of 5 spaces.
  5. Hi, and welcome to the forums. I've seen this a number of times. For me, clearing the browser's cookies (maybe for the last day, maybe even just for the last hour) almost always cures it. Evernote Web seems to do something that makes it unable to understand its own cookies.
  6. I suspect that Evernote's search of PDFs may not have been designed with a view to searching multiple PDFs each of which contained entire an book. Perhaps, as I believe @Atul Mishra said, splitting the books and putting each chapter in a separate note might be more useful, and either carefully tagging each note, or including specific keywords in the body of each note might also help. If I may suggest an alternative, unless you need to do this on a mobile phone, there is a research suite called Nota Bene which includes a multilingual word processor designed with scholars in mind, and has a module that does perform very exact searches on PDFs and other documents, and display the context of each found result so you can get to what you're really looking for. It is available for both Windows and Mac.
  7. In v 10, it is the message at bottom right in a note being edited that indicates when it has been synced. Since syncing is constant and automatic, no indicator on other notes would be needed. But, if I'm understanding you right, you're saying that this indicator says "All changes saved," yet there are "Download incomplete" messages when offline? I take this to mean that after notes have apparently synced, if you go offline there are still some listed as not fully downloaded, correct? As you've noted, Ctrl+R can be used to force a sync before going offline--are you still seeing "Download incomplete" if you do that?
  8. See my reply to your other post. And, as was mentioned here before, please, no double posting. It won't get you any different answers.
  9. And so I think, at this point, maybe only temporarily but maybe not, we must regard this not as an annoying bug but as an annoying feature. Suggestions made in this previous post in the thread and in this one pretty much sum up the options: use a blank line between paragraphs (as is common in some other short-form writing software, e.g. emails), or write longer-form material in software designed for that purpose, such as a word processor or Scrivener. Or press the spacebar a few times--3 ought to be enough.
  10. We're mainly other users here, not Evernote support. But since you (and I) are using v. 6.25, we must resign ourselves that this version is not getting any more updates, and what we have is what it will be--unless we update to v. 10, which I did on a different computer. But in either version, I have no trouble hovering the mouse pointer over a table column divider and getting the tool to grab and move the divider. As for setting a particular value ... would that be in centimeters, inches, a percentage, pixels? I'd way rather drag than have to try 10 different values till I got the right one; but that's just my preference.
  11. Hmmm. Now that I look more carefully at the OP, I realize I may have misinterpreted it myself. In v. 10 desktop, it is indeed possible to hover the mouse over a link, which produces a popup with the link, as well as Edit and a 3-dot menu, and then one can click on that link in the popup. That does sound rather like what the OP describes. But, as you and others said, just clicking on the link in the note (even if the popup has already appeared) opens the link for me. Not sure if I've muddied the waters or cleared them up. @Marco Disseldorp, can you clarify?
  12. In Legacy, v. 6, right-clicking on the note in the Note List will pop up a menu with "Remove from Shortcuts" at the bottom.
  13. Thanks for keeping this updated. I haven't checked, frankly, so I don't know if I'm getting this activity on my Evernote 10 installation. But truly out of ignorance, I want to ask what damage this constant "disk" activity might do? With an SSD, as I understand it, there is no disk, so there is no mechanism to be given extra wear and tear, but just a matter of writing and rewriting to flash memory. Still, I can see that it would be a problem if all that writing were slowing down the computer overall. Is that what you're experiencing?
  14. The issue exists in the Evernote Web client, not the current desktop app. It is definitely an annoyance, one that never made the slightest sense to me, and really should have been swept away long before now. But the best way to lodge this complaint is to click on your account name in the upper left, then click Share Feedback. Which I am just off to do.
  15. Thanks for a useful post. You describe quite well the limitations of attached files in Evernote on a browser: there is no local database from which the attachments could be opened, so they must be downloaded and saved. Similarly, from within a browser tab opening a note in a separate window would not be feasible, but a separate browser tab (or browser window) would serve well ... except that I find Edge will not let me do even that; I'd have to duplicate the whole Evernote tab and work in the duplicate. I did exactly that for over a year, and I found it helpful, as you suggest, till it got to the point where EN 10 was functional enough to start using the app itself (once I got a Windows 10 computer).
  16. A charming bit of deflection, offering (inaccurate) accusations against others, and then continuing your off-topic efforts to drift the thread in your direction. On the off chance you'd like to see a real user's progress from considering v. 10 a "disaster" to "quite good", here's a thread I started. Things change, a revision that started off on the wrong foot gradually got a lot better and now works quite well. That's my experience. Evidently it's not yours, but you might find a more sympathetic audience by starting or adding to a relevant thread in a relevant forum.
  17. Hi, and welcome to the forums. To open a support ticket, go to: https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/requests/new. This is for paying subscribers, but you can subscribe for just one month to request support, and after you're done unsubscribe. As for the Help menu:
  18. Hi, and welcome to the forums. We are mainly other users here, so we're limited in what we can do to help in a situation like this. You would do best to open a support ticket and let the Evernote tech support people help get your data back: https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/requests/new.
  19. @FrancesPorras, on the off chance that you are not a bot, I've reported your post as spam. If you're a real student, I say on behalf of all of us who actually do the work that the professor who flunks you out will be doing the world a service. I hope you will find honest employment.
  20. From Evernote Help & Learning: https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/360050105293, then look for "contains."
  21. "Predictive" text ... sort of like a fortune cookie? "You will mildly embarrass yourself in public in the near future."
  22. Already well known, actually, e.g. these threads, and maybe others: https://discussion.evernote.com/forums/topic/143224-javascript-error-since-last-update/ https://discussion.evernote.com/forums/topic/143243-latest-update-broke-evernote/ https://discussion.evernote.com/forums/topic/143291-is-official-evernote-no-longer-works-under-windows-7/
  23. Drifting a bit, perhaps, but I'm curious whether those who use note titles in this way (e.g. @Jon/t and @DTLow) find that Evernote's new function of automatically creating a title from the first line in the note is a help or a hindrance.
  24. @James000, I've been using Cronofy for a few years also, and it does generally work brilliantly. Once in awhile Cronofy's servers seem to slow down and it can take awhile for Evernote reminders and Google Calendar events to sync (either direction). And recently I've had some older notes in Evernote seemingly become unable to access Cronofy at all. Very strange; I have to copy their content into a new note, set a reminder, and then it's fine. But I emphasize that these are rare events, and on the whole it just works. For the curious, the Google Calendar event that is created will have a comment field containing a link of the form http://in.cronofy.com/Aa0bB2c, which when clicked redirects to your Evernote note. The events will be your default length and color, and there's no way to customize that yet. It's highly functional, but I do hope that eventually Evernote (notes and tasks both) will be able to create Google Calendar events directly.
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