Dave-in-Decatur

As I understand it, what works now is to right-click the tray icon, then click Open Evernote. I tried a few experiments, and this seems to take approximately 2 seconds, as opposed to 1 second to simply left-click. Perhaps it takes 2.5 seconds as opposed to .75 seconds. In any case, the worsened user experience (which many people are reporting in several threads) seems to me to be more psychological than substantial (as user experiences tend to be, I would suppose). I don't use the system to tray to open Evernote in any case, even for the quick note--but it does seem to me that there might be many users and use situations for which quick access to creating a note is more important than quick access to the entire program. At any rate, I guarantee that if Evernote were to go back to the previous functionality those users would inundate these forums with complaints.

Thanks, that's helpful. I do find the same thing, and I do prefer to have links open in the app, so I know what you mean. I guess I just haven't had it happen very often, if ever. I must not insert "internal links" in the Android app very much. Is @raj goel's workaround helpful for you? I'm not sure I quite followed what he was suggesting.

@EverGrope, it really does no good to look around and revive all the old threads on this issue. One was enough. WRT other solutions, see this thread in particular:

Here's another, very long thread on the subject, with various suggestions for alternative ways of opening the program interface with one click: Not that I expect anyone who wants to click the tray icon and get the program interface to accept those alternatives. This seems to be one of those issues that trigger the "my way of using Evernote is the only rational way" response in a lot of people. And yet left-clicking the tray icon to create a new note or take some other specific action, rather than opening the main program window, is fairly common. I have at least two other apps that do exactly that.

Ctrl+Z works in the Web client and the Windows desktop app, and has the advantage of letting a person keep typing. Good call! (Of course, I still wish it would make the link when typing punctuation immediately after the paste, not only when typing Space or Enter.)

There is another long thread on this topic, which contains a number of suggestions of other ways to open the program interface with a single click. It seems, though, that people who want to open it from the tray with one click want to open it from the tray with one click, period; and don't see the advantages of having one click to start a new note. EDIT Yet another thread on this topic with recent activity: But I have at least two other apps that do exactly what Evernote does: left-clicking their tray icons creates a new note or takes some other specific action, rather than opening the main program window.

I'm curious about the word "customer" here. Per Merriam-Webster, a customer is "one that purchases some commodity or service." A person who uses a service for free may be a client but is hardly a customer. And why should a business that generously provides some free service consider the interests of the nonpaying clients of great importance? Hopefully Notion will support your free use more effectively for you than Evernote. But do you really think Evernote will miss another nonpaying user? I don't mean this insultingly or anything. It just puzzles me why "putting it behind a paywall" is considered somehow an unfair business practice for a business to use, and why a business should feel wounded by the loss of someone who avoids paying if at all possible. Sigh. We live in an age of wonders.... PS. You're not addressing Evernote, Evermoney, or Ever-anything here, only other users of Evernote (most of them paying Evernote to put up this forum for you to complain in for free). If you want to give Evernote a piece of your mind, you can open a support ticket: https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/requests/new. But, oops, you'd have to pay.... They get you every way, I guess.

My wife doesn't use Evernote, but ... yeah. Good to know we're not alone!

So, artificial unintelligence?

Two years later, does the problem even still exist?? In desktop apps and the Web client one is always offered the choice between Web link and app link. In Android, though the link created is the evernote.com/shard type, it still opens in the Android app. Can't speak to iOS, which is what this thread was originally about.

Personally, I wish it were easier to create a link, e.g., by putting punctuation after a pasted-in URL (you may have noticed that having a period, comma, etc., after the URL keeps it from making a link). But I understand about not want to accidentally activate it.

Hmm, also v. 10.54.4, on Windows 10, and it's still bottom right for me. I almost never use this--and probably could use it more--so I don't really have an opinion on where it ought to pop up. Cursor position and recent screen-clicking has no effect on it. I declare meh.

Glad you got it figured out, @RobynA! It might be helpful if you'd say how -- others may come here looking for such a solution. I had something similar happen some months back. Evernote support advised the following: Select the note(s) that has this issue. Select File > Export Note... Choose a destination on your computer and select Save. Select File > Import... from the menu bar. Locate and select the ENEX (.enex) file you exported of the note(s). Click Open. Tags will automatically be imported. Another option is to use Note History (if you have a paid subscription, or pay for one for just 1 month to get access to the history) and find an earlier version of the note with the content intact. From there you can either restore the note, or perhaps for extra safety, export it, then import it to a different notebook to compare the content.

Please note that we continue to discuss a topic introduced by a "member" who still has only that 1 post and is almost certainly a sock puppet that posted content generated by Notion's AI. (At any rate @Anthony2023 has not yet chosen to prove otherwise.) Also note that none of us was fooled by it.

There have been several reports of this problem recently. It seems to affect users that have continued to use the "classic" Web interface instead of the "new" one. Apparently Evernote no longer supports the "classic" interface. The change from Classic to New can be made in the user's Account Summary. For more information, see this thread:

Define "understand". As opposed to "misunderstand". Or "I think I understand". State number of consecutive years in a monogamous relationship to confirm knowledge of the difference.

Yeah, I actually did think of that. Ack. Too late now.

Revisiting my own thought process ... If it goes up to US$180/year for me (which I sincerely hope it doesn't), that's still only $0.50/day. I'm positive that I get at least that much value from it each and every day. I know that Evernote no longer provides the tools and features that some users need, but it does for me (indeed, there are things I haven't explored yet, like tasks), and the burden of changing to something else and probably losing some features I rely on would give me more aggravation over the course of the next year than the cost of the increase. But I still hope it doesn't do that.

There's a thread on that issue going on in one of the forums. If you're still experiencing it, the answer seems to be to switch from the "classic" Web version to the current one somewhere in your account settings.

Interesting idea, thanks! Evernote was trying to download to my Downloads folder, which has 148 items in it totaling over 62 MB--so not huge, I think. I tried just removing the Downloads link from Recent Items, but that didn't help. I hated to lose that whole set of recents, but I tried emptying it (with Evernote not running, having crashed). Oddly, Evernote still wanted to save to Downloads (does it keep its own recents list?), and still had a label "Working on it" in the folder space in the dialog. That folder was showing empty, which it obviously is not, so something is going wrong with Evernote's ability to use this dialog. Since I can drag and drop or use the Web client to save an attachment, I'm not going to waste time on it. I'll hope that it just goes away somehow. Of course I've been hoping that about some former political office holders too....

You're responding to a thread that is more than 4 years old. Things do change in that time. Can you give more details?

I've seen this a few times on the Android app. Clearing the cache or restarting the phone usually helps.

Hello, and welcome to the forums. We may or may not be able to give helpful advice in this situation; we're mainly just fellow users here. It would help to have more information about the version of Evernote you were using, the device and operating system, were you on a reliable Internet connection at the time, etc.

Good to see you back here!

Welcome to the forums. These are user-to-user forums, with no development team members here on a regular basis. The best way to contact them is via a support request if you have a paid subscription (https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/requests/new), or via the feedback feature in the apps.