Minimizing the message is SUCH a kludge.
My Catalina/Evernote experience is slightly different, as I do not have notifications turned on, for anything. But, since I bought a new 16 inch MacBook Pro, running Catalina, in late 2019, EvernoteSpotlight has crashed it many, many times according to Console's crash reports. It has become so annoying that I am using the web-based version of Evernote these days, and I am definitely not using it as often as I used to.
I am reading back in the posts above; clearly lots has happened since I posted much earlier in the thread. I am still bemused as to why Evernote has not fix this problem. The larger context is that Catalina is, in my opinion, not ready for prime-time. I have two other Macs in my studio configured identically, software wise, apart from running High Sierra, and neither has crashed at any time over the last seven years in the case of one machine and four in the other. Regular maintenance is done of course via Cocktail and similar, and the machines are turned off a few times a week and restarted. From this unscientific perspective Catalina seems to be the problem. Evernote is a casualty, perhaps.