Dave-in-Decatur

You might want to report this in the thread started by Federico, the product lead:

If you're going to make criticisms and promote other services, please at least use facts. "Bad in many ways" is just a general statement of opinion. The Personal plan allows unlimited devices: https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/209005157-Compare-Evernote-subscription-plans. It also offers many advantages over Free, such as emailing notes into Evernote and searching in attachments. Whether these are worth the cost depends on each individual's needs and resources, but choices should be made on the basis of reality.

Take a look at this from Evernote's product head; I don't know if it will apply to your case or not:

https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/requests/new. If you search the forum for API, you will find several posts indicating that the recent complete overhaul of Evernote's syncing has left the API behind. But mostly we're other users here, and this is far above our pay grade. There may be a developer's forum somewhere, but that info too is unavailable to the mortal man.

@idickinson, welcome to the forums. You're responding to a thread from over 2 years ago, so the issues now are entirely different. Please search around the forums for references to "slow loading" and the like, and look at threads from the last month or so. You will see the reason, which has to do with the recently introduced changes to the syncing structure of notes.

@vipen, here it is in full. I have highlighted the relevant material, which is based on information from Evernote support.

So do I.

Very few users "notice the issue" of notes that "don't load at all," because very few people are experiencing that. As you say, everyone's getting slow opening, but your specific case is unusual. They should communicate better, but I doubt that it's malicious. Have the escalated it beyond the basic intake level? If not, that would be worth pounding on the door about.

@vipen, welcome to the forums. It's always helpful to read through a thread before posting. One of the earlier posts (quoted below) set out the reason for what's going on (and there are numerous other threads currently on the same subject. Evernote introduced a new syn structure for notes, and older notes have to be updated when they're opened. There's really no mystery about it, nor does it reflect on Evernote's long-term usability.

@McVitas, you've been around these forums for awhile, so no need to tell you they're basically user to user, even if Evernote staff look in from time to time. If the theory is, "Well of course Evernote staff will see this," to me that's like standing in the middle of a grocery store and shouting at the manager. Eventually, he may show up. Your problem will not have been solved in the meantime, but you will have succeeded in annoying your fellow customers.

@kj4321, take a look at the messages just preceding yours. Evernote programmers are aware of the issues and are bearing down on them. As a free user, you can contact support via Twitter. You could also subscribe for just one month, then drop back to free. While subscribed, you could access your Note History and see what is there (this might be the easiest and most direct approach). And you would also get paid access to support.

@lotsa_notes, I agree that this was at least partially foreseeable. Why not just pop up a message saying "Note being converted" each time a conversion happens? This would have multiple benefits. First and foremost, people would know what's going on, and know that it was expected. By the time most people read the message, most notes would be converted and ready to display, or nearly so. It would also let people know that, if notes were slow to appear and the popup did not show, then there might be a real problem. This could have been handled so much better. It does seem that Bending Spoons is continuing Evernote's longstanding reluctance to communicate, not just problems, but simple reassuring information.

There's already a long-running request for this and other sort preferences. It would likely be more helpful to add your support there (click the up arrow at top to vote for it):

This issue -- inability to add a note to the Android home screen -- has been widely reported (though not everyone gets a crash afterward). Evernote support has been made aware, but it couldn't hurt if you'd send them a report also. See these two existing threads:

Well, we're talking notebooks here rather than tags, but it's true that people might have a long list of notebooks they need to filter or search for.

True, @agsteele, but in my experience also that setting often doesn't seem to work, even when adding via the blue + sign. (Nice timing on your ticket! )

I agree that that would be more logical, and I've voted it up (although there is probably at least one other idea thread in this forum that already has this). It has been ranging between a favorite idea, a pet peeve, and an obsession in the forums ever since v. 10 came out with tags at bottom. But @Mike P is probably right that it's not moving. Many have also requested that the interface be more customizable in general, as in v. 6, but that also seems a dim hope. This is the one thing I would question. I don't think any of us has any idea how many workflows people get into with Evernote, because of its amazing versatility. And of course you're veering into the Total Tagging vs. Nothing But Notebooks war too, but let's hope no one goes there.

@gazumped, that's not the issue. @Emphyrio, like me, has used a feature in Evernote v. 6 (for Windows, anyway) to color-code the names of the notebooks in the notebook list. This can be helpful in grouping particular kinds of activities, for instance. I always liked it, but it always had limitations--it only existed on the device on which you created it: it didn't show up in the Web or mobile clients, or even in the desktop program on a different Windows PC. It no longer exists in v. 10, unfortunately (just as the tab feature of the Mac desktop program didn't make it into v. 10 either). The emojis workaround is about the only way to accomplish it. There are other samples here ( @Mike P seems to be a big fan) and here.

Good catch! I find the same thing. It also doesn't matter whether Edit Protection is turned on or off.

@GrahameE, as previously suggested, this should be reported to Evernote support: in Android, the 3-line menu at bottom left, then the gear at top right, then Support. Be sure to include an activity log.

You're responding to a thread that is almost 3 years old, and deals with an issue that has been solved long since. The answer is, no bots here please.

Just recently posted by @Molly_S of Evernote staff in another forum:

Welcome to the forums, @Holger Degroot. Others have reported loss of content also, and we have been told that Evernote programmers are actively investigating the problems. Just regarding notes being marked as "updated" simply for having viewed them, this is also a known issue that they are working on.

Thanks. I decided to leave my post responding to the now-deleted up, since the point I made seems to remain valid, and to be clear enough even without the context I was responding to.

This matches my experience too, esp. on the Android app, sometimes on Web, seldom in the Windows desktop app. But it seems to happen differently for everybody.