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Years ago my wife tried evernote. It was a failure. Now when I try to share a notebook with her, she never gets the message. It seems that you are sending the share to her old account, instead of emailing her, which is why she never gets the share. There should be some way to bypass sending the notice to evernote or make a choice. My guess this causes a lot of problems for evernote not working. /Len

This first note in this thread states that Anchor notes is "impossible". First, are you kidding, anything is possible. Second, you should hire people who know this. Third, if this many people want this feature and your (Evernote) think it's impossible the correct approach is to assign the task of a whitepaper on why its impossible (Specifically). If by the end of the paper that person can't give you a solution you have the wrong person. But if the solution is complex or abstract give the problem to a real programmer or 2. You will get solutions. Review that for consistency with your implementation philosophy, see where it breaks, fix that, add the feature, and move on.

Linking does not even work in the current version IF THE NOTE is not synced yet. Syncing is a slow process, especialy when you try to jump in with both feet and convert from something else. The upload limit has killed me 3 times. That is before I could make Evernote useful I had to give up for a month. year later I tried again. Same thing. A year later I tried again. Now I'm working on try 4. Its gone better (I think you moved the upload limit). Anyway I tried linking a couple of notes in a new notebook and could not make it work. As usual I made a test case and believe the problem is that copying of an internal notes link simply does not work - unless the source note is synced. An unsynced note can receive a note just fine of course. I also find the page limits for OCR and file size are a real pain. Scansnap can make and OCR these files, but it looks like they can't be used. I have not had time to verify with the usual debug procedure. If linking relies on the source note being synchronized YOU MUST have a way to FORCE LINK a specific note when other stuff is synchronizing, (or it should just be automatic). Since I first tried evernote my internet bandwidth is at least 4 times what it was. No getting 20 Mb up and 140 Mb Down. Evernote is still the major networking headach and bottleneck to productivity. I'm going to comtinue my 4th attempt a bit longer, but this time its audios amigos.

I really think Evernote is missing the boat, and I'm sorry if this offends anyone, but I normally charge for consulting, and you're getting it free - so no polish. The main features of Evernote are related to its ability to act as a data collection point which is accessible from multiple machines. It was really great 5 years ago, and held promise. Alas, the company is only moving horizontally, and failing to exploit what the ability to collect data means. Sharing data with multiple machines is no longer special. The cloud makes that possible and cheap. So what do you do with this data? Well in the case of dropbox, the format of the data is legacy files and folders, so what you do with it depends on the application you apply to it. Very simple. Evernote does not have that ability. (it could, but that might be a little too out there for management at this point). So what you can do with your data in Evernote is limited to the client, and that's a serious problem if your client isn't keeping up, and its not. Yes, you have some neat objects knit together - but it won't take Dropbox or a third party to figure out how to do that in the file system. Microsoft has already started with the obvious (like comments in NTFS that you can attach to your files, but this is a baby step. Here are the very simplistic things Evernote just fails at: There is no time control. Reminders are nice, but people use calendars, not reminders, and if you are sitting there with all of your data at your command, exactly what are you planning to do with it and when? What notes are required for that event? What files? There's room for a whole new paradigm here if you put your thinking caps on, and Evernote already has a foundation. Data, files, links, annotation,..... Templates are another feature that needs more integration. Yes, templates save typing and that was great in 1950. This is not 1950. Think about it. Clearly One Note is a great platform that will do most of what Evernote does - and I've got hundreds of hours with it, and some huge notebooks, but Microsoft's own narcissism stops them from ripping the market apart - they know ***** about networking, most of their developers don't speak English, and they think that there server products are "great", which everyone knows is not true. If you use their cloud services, create an empty notebook, and sync it, you can waste 30 minutes due to performance issues. Add a few hundred megabytes and you won't sync for days. Completely unacceptable, BUT what if they fix it? Then Evernote will be history, and that's pretty scary. Microsoft already owns the desktop, as you know, and even though they keep messing it up, eventually an unlimited number of monkeys are going to get it right, so the question is what does Evernote do to get ready in case that happens, and perhaps lead the way toward integration. You've got to build vertically. You need to own the time dimension. You need to build on the project paradigm. You need to work the dataset angle. This is what humans do. OK, times up. Got to go. /Len

I have a related problem. Notes that should not appear in a simple search do appear AND notes that should appear do not. Its a large notebook, but I'm sure the index is broken.