Dave-in-Decatur

2 questions, from someone who has both old v. 6.25.1 and current v. 10: #1: I think I understand your process, but I'm not sure I get the reason. How does putting "file://Table of Contents" into the file info get you to any useful search filtering? Or am I completely misunderstanding? #2: Sorry to differ, your honor, but in 6.25.1 the auto-generated TOC is a numbered listed with draggable handles, and I can drag an entry to the end of the list without issue. The problem you describe only happens when I drag it to the blank line past the end of the list; or when I accidentally drag it to an indented position--both of which are regrettably easy to do. Personally, I have to think that the auto-generated TOC is on their to-do list, since it seems to me that if you can select notes and merge them, select notes and add tags to them all, select notes and copy their links, etc., a way can be found to add those links to a new note in the form of a numbered list.

Basic question: what are you printing from, the Evernote Windows app or the Web client in a browser? I don't see any of those extras when I print from the Windows app. EDIT: But when I print from the Evernote Web client in my browser, and instruct my browser's print dialog to include headers and footers, I get what you describe. Hence my question.

This is a nice point. It's possible to open individual notes in separate windows in the v. 10 Windows app, but not (AFAIK) entire notebooks. Trying to follow your process (and using Opera rather than Chrome), I find that in the Web client I can create a shortcut to a notebook; click on the shortcut in the sidebar; and hover my mouse over the shortcut, right click, and select Copy Address. Then I can use the copied address to create a new bookmark in my browser bookmarks bar to click and open the notebook directly, in a new tab or window if desired. (I can also create a new shortcut to that address on the Windows desktop and click the desktop shortcut to open the notebook opens in a new browser tab.) This is a very desirable ability. Given the overall similarity in operation between the desktop app and the Windows client, I find it easy to switch from working in one to working in the other (till I try to use one of the app shortcuts in a browser tab!). Good stuff!

Hi, and welcome to the forums. As @lost_gweedo says, the Web clipper creates a new note in the notebook you designate, so in your case the notebook with the title of your book. You can't clip directly to an existing note, nor, as you've discovered, simply drag one note from the list into another note. What you can do is merge multiple notes together: click on your notebook in the sidebar on the left, then first select the chapter note, then use Ctrl+click to select the Web-clipped notes in the order in which you want them to appear. As you select notes, a popup dialogue bar will appear. When you've got all the notes selected, click the "Merge" icon on this bar. This will open a dialogue with various options. I said you should select the chapter note first, but in fact if you don't, you can rearrange the sequence of notes in the dialogue; whichever one is first in the list will give its title to the new, merged note. The "Advanced options" dropdown will let you choose some specifics of how the new note will appear, and whether to retain the original notes or have them moved to Trash (where you can still access them later until you delete them). Another option is to select and drag content from within a Web-clipped note into the main chapter note. One way to do that would be to open the main note in a separate window (double-click on it, or press Ctrl+Enter while it has focus in the note list), then select each clipped note in sequence, select all its content, and drag it to the new note. This could get a little tricky, though, depending on the complexity of the Web clips, and I would stick with merging. One final thought on structuring your notes. I also have notebooks for books to be written, and individual notes for specific research, ideas, etc. I haven't yet organized these notes into chapters, but if I decide to do that in Evernote rather than in my writing software, I will probably use a tagging system such as @lost_gweedo suggests. Then when I view a specific chapter's tag, I will see all the notes that pertain to it. The added advantage of this is that if you're not sure which chapter some material might belong in, you can put multiple tags on it and decide later. Such a system will keep your chapter notes from becoming too long and unwieldy. Evernote is designed to work best with relatively short notes. Hope all this is some help!

Hi, and welcome to the forums. "Same problem," when several people reported various possibly related problems almost a year ago, is not yet enough info for your fellow users here to work with. To start with, what Evernote client are you using: Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android, Web...?

Just at a guess, since Evernote now constantly syncs as we type, I wonder whether your Internet connection might periodically become unstable or weak. I can imagine (but I can imagine a lot of things) that this might cause the program to freeze as it tries to sync what you're typing to its servers.

Hi, @nikawolf, and welcome to the forums. Please be aware that these are basically user-to-user forums, so they are not "our" suggested templates. If you have a paid account and this is not working as it should, it might be best to start a support ticket with Evernote support: https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/requests/new.

I promise not to ask again, but could we get a couple of concrete examples? Esp. of how the "old" EN does Web clip editing that v. 10 fails at.

Just a thought about this: as @Alxa pointed out above, the "old" Evernote Windows program did/does have an option to spell-check in multiple languages at the same time. I just selected English, French, and German and found the spell-checking covered all 3 as I switched among them as I wrote, though it slowed down the typing noticeably. So presumably at one time Evernote did license all these spell checkers. It evidently seemed like a reasonable business decision at the time, and I hope that it may seem so once again, but likely not till after other functions of the new version are sorted out and syncing improved.

Hi, and welcome to the forums. Yes, I've observed this, and been annoyed by it, too. I only use Edge because I haven't gotten around to installing the browser I want. But this happens in the Evernote Windows app too, and I'm not sure that a setting in Edge can affect that. There is no setting in the app to turn it off, but Ctrl+Shift+V will reliably paste the URL as is.

Well, as has been mentioned in this thread, it is certainly possible. Since it doesn't work as you wish ("Magic wand does me no good"), I'm just asking what it is specifically that it does wrong. As for the old version, again, can you say exactly what you can do there (it's still possible to install and use it) that is no longer possible in v. 10? I ask this because I don't know. The editing of Web clips that I do is pretty basic, and I find that it often works better in v. 10 than it did in v. 6.

This thread is almost 2 years old, was discussed off and on till June 2021, then resuscitated a couple of months ago. Over the course of that time, Evernote 10 developed a good deal. (For instance this post from February 2021 links to a page with complex figures and formulas and says it displays badly when clipped to Evernote; but I just clipped it and it seems fine, apart from different fonts being used.) So I presume you're not just saying +1 to the problems from October 2020 but are interacting with the current version. Can you say more about what exactly you need to do that isn't working? That would help the discussion here--and even better would be to give feedback or raise a support ticket to Evernote, to help the develop of the program.

I can see that this would be very handy to have--I prefer keyboard shortcuts to mousing for as much formatting as possible. @agsteele, is the impossibility of a macro due to the fact you mentioned in an unrelated thread, that the Evernote API has not yet been updated so that scripting programs can access such functions?

Well, here's something interesting. There's also no keyboard shortcut to open a note in a new window listed for the Windows app. But if I have a note selected in a list of notes, pressing Ctrl+Enter will open it in its own window, just like in the old Windows v. 6 program. (It doesn't work in the Web client.) Evidently the list of shortcuts is not fully up to date. Will something like Cmd+Enter work on the Mac?

I don't see any of those pop-ups you mention at the end. I believe they can be controlled in settings: Personal Settings and Reminders. I agree that upgrade pop-ups would be extremely annoying. I made a considered decision to upgrade to Professional, based on my needs and my use of the product, so I don't see pop-ups. But having one display in the middle of an operation like a search sounds very intrusive. I suppose it could have been meant to advertise the greater search capabilities of Pro; but I assume you also made a considered decision, know what the various levels offer, and are where you need to be. I could sort of see a popup at the moment of opening the app, or shutting it down, but not in the middle of work.

Keep may well work for your purposes. I hope so. Just always remember that with Evernote you are (or can become) a customer. With Google you are (and always will be) raw material.

By v. 8, I assume you mean v. 6? There never was a v. 8 of the Evernote Windows program. Be that as it may, the new code base (as I understand it) for v. 10 may very well treat pasted HTML differently than v. 6. I've seen other oddities in Web- and email-originated text. If Ctrl+Shift+V doesn't give the desired result, you could try simplifying or removing formatting (under More in the editing toolbar) after the paste to speed the cleanup.

@PinkElephant's advice is sound. I have a question about what exactly you did. Did you close the Evernote window, and if so, did you just click the X at top right to close it, or did you do File > Quit Evernote? The former only closes the interface window that is open; the latter actually shuts Evernote down. Since Evernote is constantly syncing, such a shutdown could have disrupted the sync and caused the corruption.

Same here, honestly. I think I held out for over a year, waiting for enough functionality to come back. It did, and the added functionalities, which I could try out in the Web client while still using the old v. 6.25 of the Windows program, eventually made it a desirable and easy transition to v. 10.

Just for completeness' sake, when I restarted my computer today and got the notice to update to v. 10.42.7, I made a test note with several kinds of attachments. It synced properly and was fully visible both on my (older, EN v. 8) Android phone and on the Web client. So from my perspective whatever needed fixing did get fixed.

As @gazumped suggested, the issue could have to do with the URL being browsed. In English, at least, there is a bug in which any URL with the string "home" in it, when clicked, is redirected to the Evernote Home page. Why it would send you to the Russian landing page is not clear, though.

Not a headache, exactly, but maybe just an annoying ringing in the ears. I will adjust my process to accommodate it ... until Evernote improves it or makes it optional, and then I'll readjust. A First World problem, definitely.

Thanks for pointing this out: if you use a template to start the new note, Evernote will grab the first line of the template as the title. Pretty dysfunctional. For all the people who've been begging for auto-titling, this implementation may be a boon, but for the rest of us it is pretty much a mess.

Hi, and welcome to the forums. There have been a number of questions raised about this. I think the standard reply (from your fellow users, which is basically who's on these forums) is "Yes, Evernote would like you to pay for its services, and they'll ask you to do so. Since free lunches are increasingly rare, you may need to consider this the price you're paying in lieu of cash for the service." Not meaning to be dismissive, but there it is. If Evernote did like Google and Facebook, and collected our personal info to sell to advertisers, they wouldn't need us to subscribe. They don't, so subscriptions are their only source of the revenue necessary to do what they do.

This bug has been reported in the forums a few times. Simply do any typing at all in the note (it doesn't have to be a heading, and you can then just undo it). That should activate the "Save as template" option.