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…

One solution is simply try to avoid text editing in Evernote, especially on iPad. Think of it as a repository, not an editor. I try create text notes using Drafts, which is great for writing, and has the ability to send notes directly to Evernote, formatting intact. Just like I use a scanner to capture paper documents, or drag PDFs from whatever source into Evernote for later use, I use Drafts to capture text. if I need to do a lot of editing of Evernote text, I do in on my Mac. The editor actually works pretty good on that platform. At the same time, it seems like the iPad is the weakest platform, Evernote seems to be ignoring the fact that iPadOS and iOS are not the same. Of course, one might question the sanity of using two text apps when one should suffice… hopefully one day the iPad Evernote editor will be all I need.

I don’t think Evernote has done any iPad specific tweaks with v10. I assume they have to make some OS specific changes for MacOS, iOS Windows and Android, but they seem to be ignoring iPadOS, and giving iPad users the iOS version. Running the Web version on the iPad does what you want, but introduces some other problems.

You have a point. The biggest drawback of Evernote for me is that it clearly is aimed at the desktop, not mobile. On iOS you can’t drag a bullet item with a gesture, but you can with a mouse on the desktop. You can’t press the Evernote icon to get options like Create New Note like you can with most iOS app. You can’t see PDFs inline like you can on the desktop. There is no iOS widget like most apps have. As has been noted, dragging from other apps has mixed results at best. The big question is if these things are even possible given Evernote’s architecture?

No, I always am connected to WiFi. Just guessing at what the problem is.

I have a fifth generation (2017) iPad. It seems like everything - starting the app, opening a note, redrawing the Home Screen, showing the calendar - takes many seconds to complete. I often see the spinning wheel indicator when opening a note. I suspect part of the problem is that offline Notebooks never seem to get downloaded. Though I have it set up to download all Notebooks, they never seem to get completely downloaded. I also have to wonder if any iPadOS specific tweaks have been made, or if the iPad just runs the same app as the iPhone. Does anyone else see these issues? Is an iPad from 2017 just to old to run v10? Certainly Evernote runs just fine on my current generation iPhone. But using it in my iPad, it's the slowest app I have.

I think it is fair to say that fonts aren't very high on Evernote's priority list. No way to set a default font and size, bullets and numbers and checkboxes don't align properly if you do change the size. One of the reasons Evernote continues to be lackluster as a text editor/note taker.

..and not having much luck. On my iPad, a couple of times I managed to reorder rows, but I'm not sure how I managed it - I think from pressing and holding, then I was able to do it. But not consistently. On my iPhone, I have yet to do it. Is there a trick to selecting and dragging a row with your finger? Maybe I'm just a klutz? Edit: Sorry, I didn't make clear I'm talking about v10.6, which allows editing of tables.

The nice thing about Craft is that it was developed with mobile in mind. Unlike Evernote, all features are available on mobile and the desktop, and you can do editing on iOS with gestures, no more awkward cutting & pasting. And as you say, it is really a great looking app. Not as feature rich as Evernote, but it is constantly adding features, and at a quicker pace than Evernote.

I ask because while Evernote is great for storing and retrieving stuff, I still find the Evernote editor not very good for use on mobile. A small default font that can't be changed, no way to reorder lines or paragraphs (other than cut & paste) make it frustrating to use on my iPad and iPhone compared to other iOS note apps. I have toyed with using Drafts for writing notes, then Sharing the text to Evernote when I'm done making changes. You could probably do the same with Bear or another iOS note app, but I'm not sure it makes sense to use two apps for taking and managing notes. Is anyone doing this?

And modern iOS editors allow you to do this with gestures. An app like Notion or Craft is much nicer to use on mobile for text editing than Evernote is. Cut and Paste is a computer thing, not a mobile thing.