ObviousBob

I created a note by copy/pasting from a web site to Evernote. The site included text and images. When I view the note on the Mac app, it looks fine, all the images are there. If I view the note in the web app, some of the images just show an icon that says "Untitled Attachment". But if I double click on the icon, the image opens correctly. Then I close that screen, and again, just an icon. On iOS, again some images are just icons, though not necessarily the same ones as with the web app. Again, tapping on the icon correctly opens the image, but it won't display inline. Have others seen this? Is there some sort of work around?

On my iPad, I have Evernote set to download all Notebooks. When I select the Notebooks screen, all show a count, some show the count plus a little down arrow, some show a gray line, partially green, some show just the count. I'm not sure how to interpret what I am seeing: - the gray/green line means notes are being downloaded to my iPad? - the down arrow means they need to be downloaded to my iPad? - nothing but the count means they are already on my iPad? Randomly opening notes after turning off WiFi, almost all open, but some with PDFs have a down arrow in the PDF icon showing they need to be downloaded, so can't be opened. Ever since v10, I have never seen the Notebook list without at least some green lines. Is there any way to get all notes and their attachments onto my iPad?

What you are asking for is perfectly reasonable. I agree that the default font size is too small, and that the solution is to let users set their own default. But if I'm remembering correctly, this was never a feature in the mobile app (at least on iOS) before v10, so I don't think Evernote sees it as a priority. The workaround that was suggested works to a point - but if you do increase the font size in a note, the bullets or numbered lists do not increase along with the text, which results in a not very professional looking document. So that has to be worked on too along with the font size. I wouldn't hold my breath.. By the way, if you find Simplenote to be an effective alternative to Evernote, then maybe Evernote is overkill for your needs.

Thanks for confirming this.. this is the screen I remembered, before starting this thread I tried it and couldn't get it to work. It works fine now, so I assume there was user error involved when I first tried it. As a heavy iOS user, the more gestures the better!

I could have sworn that an earlier version of v10 allowed you to drag tasks to re-order them on iOS. It doesn't seem to work now. Am I mis-remembering this, or is there view somewhere that you can do this on iOS? (not that this would be the first thing I've mis-remembered😏)

Any number of apps can clip those sites - I can personally verify that Craft, Bear, Instapaper and Pocket all do it just fine. But not Evernote.

Why not mimic the web/desktop layout on iPad? Now THAT would be an improvement.. Or at least make the web version stable on the iPad. Right now it crashes at the drop of a hat.

Logging out and back in fixed the issue, thanks. Kinda like using a Windows computer in 1998😏

Some days ago, I tried to save several web clips. On iOS, it tries to import them, but fails. I don't mind so much that it fails, but it keeps trying and never succeeds. If I hit the "X" to dismiss it, it goes away but comes back after some time has passed. On my computer, this doesn't happen, either with the app or the web, but on iOS I can't get rid of this. I have restarted the app, even installed the release that just came out. Any ideas? This has been going on for several days now.

The web clipper on iOS doesn’t work anymore with the New York Times or Washington Post, either. This is an Evernote problem, as confirmed by Evernote Helps on twitter.

I will just note that despite the paywalls, my Evernote is full of web clips from both NYT and WP. It just isn't working now. Perhaps both sites changed their paywall rules recently, but the fact that Bear can successfully clip from those sites (and I just tried a Shortcut that saves to Craft, and it works too) points to Evernote being the problem. Perhaps I can modify the Shortcut to work with Evernote, but I pay the big bucks for Evernote support this feature, not for me to have to kludge something together.

I have not tried web clipping for a while, but it has always worked fine in the past. Today, I tried to clip articles from the New York Times and Washington post, both of which I have subscriptions to. Both failed. The NYT clip is almost blank, with a message suggesting I get a subscription. The WP clip shows the first part of the article, then says “show more” with a little down arrow. So both seem to indicate that I don’t have a subscription. I can see the articles on my iPad, and I am logged into both. Clipping both with Bear works fine - I get the entire articles as expected. Any other iOS users seeing this? Very frustrating…

A couple of comments about Bear - I am running both Bear and Evernote in parallel trying to decide which to stick with. I like the fact that Bear uses iCloud - the developers have no way to access my notes, and my experience is that syncing in quicker with Bear than with Evernote. Bear is a Markdown editor for sure, but can also serve as an archive - notes can contain anything you want as an attachment: image files, PDFs, links, web clips, or files from other apps, like Numbers spreadsheets. But I agree that a weakness is lack of OCR of attachments. So I have to decide how important that is. For many, it may not be an issue, or only a minor one. So I have to weigh the advantage of OCR in Evernote versus the speed and UI of Bear. One thing the two apps share is slow development. Evernote after almost a year, still doesn’t have all the functions of the previous version. And Bear has been promising a new version now for a couple of years, but hasn’t yet delivered.

Evernote should support Dynamic Text, but since it is not a native iOS app, that may not be possible. The only real solution is to allow users to set a default font size. They didn’t implement this pre-v10, so I am not optimistic it will happen anytime soon. A workaround is to create a note, set the font to whatever size you want, and save it as a template. Then when you create a note, start with the template. But this will take a couple of taps. When you create the template, it must contain something - I hit return a couple of times, then move the cursor back to the top of the note. This seems to work.

Are you sure that cat dog is the same as cat AND dog? When I try searching for two terms, it does indeed find notes with both, but also finds notes with only one of the terms. This is on iOS. After posting this, I notice that some notes that I thought didn’t contain both search terms actually did, but both weren’t highlighted.. need to play around with this more…