OMNIZEN

Hello, 

As of today, the IOS app crashes upon launching, i've tried everything to help fix the issue. After deleting the app, I went to redownload the beta but it NO LONGER SHOWS! I was shocked to see that it was gone. Anyone have any suggestions or recommendation? 

I know right? I actually am holding out for what the new EVERNOTE looks like and see. I do feel though this CEO is a lot more responsive and in tune with customers than previous teams. I felt like in the past there was such a disconnect with the users and what EVERNOTE was doing as a business. This team seems to really have a change in focus. 

On 6/25/2019 at 10:45 PM, Franthonyreyes13@gmail.com said:

I think app designers perhaps had in mind touchscreen typers/writers on the iPad so the default font size was quite small and it was fitting for that. If one uses then a wireless keyboard though (which many are starting to use) my eyes are farther from the screen... even if I have my reading glasses with me, it is not that easy to read. Good contrast, brightness, AND bigger fonts are important if one wants to avoid eye strain. So I think, a bigger font is needed.

I tried Bear app, migrated all my notes (16000 of them!) And with all the tags included (not the notebooks which I don’t mind) it works! It is a lot better even, with adjustable fonts... As of now, the Bear app is my alternative. If no change happens on this (sounds like a threat, haha sorry), I will definitely migrate. 

 This is been honestly, my biggest frustration with using the iOS version of Evernote. It is so difficult to you’ll have the default font size be so small. I am either adjusting the font every time or not even using the app.

It’s such a surprise to me that this hasn’t been resolved in the past as I always felt like I was the only one that had difficulty trying to read. And I have 20/20 vision. 

On 4/2/2019 at 3:01 AM, andrewchoflet said:

I’ve been using Evernote to take notes between listening to audiobooks, and have gotten to a serious point of frustration.

90% of the time I go back to Evernote to jot down a note it refreshes and I go back up to the top of my note. I then have to scroll down to where I left off (sometimes quite significantly) to continue typing. Sometimes It's so distracting I even forget what I’m typing and have to go back.  Which loops the issue again.

I’ve deactivated background app refresh, and still the same issue persists. I understand Apple is only partly responsible for this, but it’s far more frequent in Evernote then any other app I use.  I’m using an iPhone7+ iOS (12.0.1)

What can be done to stop this refresh issue?
 

This is been true for sometime and I appreciate you spending time to articulate it. I thought it was just me!

It’s not just frustrating for taking notes but I also noticed the same issue when working with reading PDFs.  When I switch the app or jump around, it’s like the app has to restart every time And you have to start over where you left off which can be honestly be frustrating when you’re trying to be productive and have a sense of flow.

On 9/19/2018 at 4:34 AM, noteaddict48 said:

Mr. O'Neill confirmed sacking of 15 % staff right now. Exactly which changes will be implemented in Evernote soon and in 2019 I could not get out of his announcement. 

If Evernote for Windows, in particular the editor, gets the major facelift I will happily go Premium.

 

I like the facelift, perhaps you could expand on that?  What kind of changes are you looking for? Also, maybe posting something in feature request would get some traction and more people 

On 6/16/2018 at 4:50 AM, Mr Jumbo Guy said:

Hi, I like Evernote very much. Its friendly and the UI is awesome but being limited to only 60 Mb/month on the FREE version is a HUGE down factor compared to OneNote which is TOTALLY FREE and there is NO limit on the amount of uploads and the size of notes in OneNote.

So, what do you all think of the biggest difference between onenote and evernote from your perspective?

I'm not saying to make it free because its an awesome handy app but saying that on the free version they should increase from 60 mb only to something a bit bigger than that.

What do you all think?

For me it’s about not being in Microsoft ecosystem I really dislike their business model and applicstions. So I might be biased. Evernote overall has this feel and integration that makes it stand out not just from one note but many note application. I like the tight integration not just with other apps but also Apple. The clipper is more prominent, simplistic ui compared to onenote. Overall it’s about preference, they have identical feature set and both heavy hitters but playing video “/audio, scanning feature and integration stand out for me as Evernote clear winner 

On 9/6/2018 at 4:00 PM, Swirley said:

Hi all,

I just discovered on going to use Evernote on my phone that it was asking me to deactivate a device in order to use it. This led to the discovery that 18 hours ago my account was accessed by an Iphone with an IP address in Egypt. I'm in the UK and using android on a Sony phone. 

I've used Evernote for years with no problems and am now freaking out that I need to change my password for everything, and also that my whole life is on there and some of its pretty personal or a security risk. Never worried about it before and now I don't know where to start. So this is both a post just to vent and say ARGH! Why don't they send an email to say someone else has logged into your device? Or have more security when it's from another country?

And secondly, has anyone else had this happen? Do you think it is an individual and that they might have downloaded and be going through all my notes as we speak? Or is it some kind of bot that doesn't actually care to read this stuff? I don't know where to start - feel I need to look through all 647 notes to see where my security may have been compromised. GAH! I've emailed the support people but is there anything they can do? Damn the internet. Bring back notebooks. 

Just change password, use two way authentication feature and if you have sensitive information start encryption with Evernote feature or saferoom app 

On 8/29/2018 at 8:00 AM, gazumped said:

Totally agree.  When I contemplate moving from Evernote (it has happened...) I factor in how much time the latest irritation-of-the-moment is adding to my day,  and compare that to the hassle of installing new software,  learning how to use it effectively,  converting my existing notes into a new format (or running two databases side by side) and settling back into an effective routine - at about which time Evernote will have usually fixed the bug anyway and I could have stayed where I was. 

I'm already committed to this application - unless there's a major security issue,  a massive bug,  or they go out of business (none of which seem likely),  it's a waste of time to consider it.

Interesting viewpoint and I agree. Evernote has this weird dichotomy that keeps the loyal user base shackled to their platform. There more and more competition but for some reason I stay ???

On 6/16/2018 at 4:50 AM, Mr Jumbo Guy said:

Hi, I like Evernote very much. Its friendly and the UI is awesome but being limited to only 60 Mb/month on the FREE version is a HUGE down factor compared to OneNote which is TOTALLY FREE and there is NO limit on the amount of uploads and the size of notes in OneNote.

So, what do you all think of the biggest difference between onenote and evernote from your perspective?

I'm not saying to make it free because its an awesome handy app but saying that on the free version they should increase from 60 mb only to something a bit bigger than that.

What do you all think?

Great obeservation. For me I just hate anything Microsof. Past experiences using their products I’ve just have a destaIn using nothing Microsoft. Evernote is a handy app and fits my workflow a lot better.

On 5/28/2018 at 12:12 PM, MRWConnected said:

Anyone have tips on how to get out of Evernote.  I've absolutely hit the wall of tolerance for the tool.  The interface gets worse with every update, and my team is about to explode with frustration.

Any thoughts on how to get out?  I'd like to be able to export into something useful, but the XML and HTML export options aren't exactly easy to work with or useful.  (Thanks Evernote - one more reminder that it's time to get out.)  I might move to Google Drive, or just Dropbox for now, but I want the notebooks in something more useful.  Anyone found an easy path?

 

It depends on what you want to export to I guess. I think at least for Mac there’s a few options / work arounds. It’s sad but I can understand the frustrations. I’m too invested and dependent on Evernote. 

Very true. Great suggestion. Let’s see if we can get the votes !

YES ! I agree since they came out with 8.0. I mentioned it a bunch of times to developers, I just don't get it. They by default go to small font size and eliminated presentation mode making readability more difficult. 

Yayys. I couldn’t agree more. Reading on iOS screens Evernote is brutal. I usually have to export and import content out of and into Evernote because the visibility is difficult. I wish I was a developer at Evernote, such obvious issues go overseen. I find they overlook such obvious things and despite feedback focus their developments on other things like when Apple does an event they come out with new features tailored to he keynote yet dozens of request that are simple get ignore. I just don’t get it... 

On 2/1/2018 at 8:25 PM, DTLow said:

I don't know about core, but it's a an enhanced feature for paid accounts.

I'm just not impresssed with the pdf annotation feature

Miscommunications. I’m just voicing my dissatisfaction with how pdf annotation is outdated and makes getting work done more frustrating. 

On 1/29/2018 at 7:25 PM, DTLow said:

I see a lot of requests like this,  Evernote should have ....

I know that the Evernote editor provides basic features and even less as a PDF editor but I'm not expecting much from free software that comes with my digital filing cabinet

PDF editing isn't even Evernote's primary business

I know I'll always get extended features from dedicated editor apps; word processing, spreadsheet, and PDF editors

PDF annotation for sure is touted as one of Evernote’s core feature sets. It’s been a long time since penultimate made any real updates, same can be said for the pdf annotation tool. Have you tried using the handwriting tool??? Sad case 

On 5/23/2016 at 12:29 PM, amcoffin said:

I use Evernote extensively on my Mac, iPad Pro, and iPhone. We use shared notebooks in my office and I have a ScanSnap Evernote Edition sitting on my desk. (I even have Evernote desk accessories sitting next to the scanner.) I'm pretty well immersed in the world of Evernote.

However, I've found myself turning to other tools, most recently OneNote, with greater frequency. The main issue, and it is a big one for me, is the fragmented and inferior support for note taking and PDF editing in Evernote. I use my iPad Pro with Apple Pencil extensively. There are some great Pencil-compatible apps for iOS, including Notability, PDF Expert, and OneNote. 

Evernote, on the other hand, is stuck with a strange and fragmented approach:

PDFs can by opened using the "Annotate" tool in Evernote, which I think is built around the remnants of Skitch. It's fine for adding arrows and icons, but terrible (unusable) for handwritten notes on PDFs. It really can't be used for anything more than simple highlighting -- certainly not detailed annotation or note taking. 

Drawings and notes can be added to an Evernote Note directly through the handwriting tool, but this simply inserts an image into the note. There's no way to use this tool to take notes over multiple pages, or to use it for annotation as far as I can tell. I've also found it to the buggy, with full pages of notes lost if you switch away from Evernote to another app before saving the image and returning to the normal notes view. I will say that that, though the tool is very limited, with very few options, the Pencil support works well and writing is fluid. This tool seems to have the most potential for future development.

Finally, there is Penultimate -- a separate app I want to love but is just too buggy, too limited, and too walled off from the rest of Evernote to be truly useful. Again, no support for importing PDFs/annotation, yet another approach to handwriting, and, though the Penultimate notes live in Evernote, nothing can be done with them in the main app. 

Why, at this stage, would Evernote have three separate, incompatible and incongruous approaches to annotation/note taking, none of which begin to match the functionality of some of the other apps named?

Attached PDFs can certainly be opened in other apps, such as PDF Expert, but there is no way to get the annotated PDFs back into an Evernote note without deleting the original attachment and reattaching the PDF. That's cumbersome, and annotation seems like pretty basic functionality that Evernote should offer. 

Evernote certainly has some broader advantages over OneNote, but really needs to explore something like the "canvas" style approach used by OneNote. The ability to "print" PDFs to a OneNote page and then markup the document itself and take notes/add text/etc. all on one page is invaluable. I've pretty much switched all note taking/PDF annotation to OneNote, with Evernote still used for project management and other organizational needs, which leaves me with my own fragmentation. 

Maybe I'm missing something in Evernote's approach, but I'm a longtime user that's completely frustrated with Evernote's inferior support for annotation and handwritten notes. 

Well said. I too felt the frustration of all you mentioned. But, felt like it was ME because this has been going on for years. I thought to myself, “am I the only one that thinks this is silly?” Then I keep hearing of Evernote’s vision, AL, team collaboration, better search capabilities. But nothing on formatting, looks, & most important the fragmented annotation. I just don’t get it. For me it posses as a real problem to get stuff done. I don’t even use Evernote for pdf annotation I feel as you have mentioned to frustrating and outdated for what I need. Evernote seems content as they add new features when Apple comes out with new things but leave the core functionality outdated & broken. Doesn’t make sense. 

On 5/23/2016 at 0:29 PM, amcoffin said:

I use Evernote extensively on my Mac, iPad Pro, and iPhone. We use shared notebooks in my office and I have a ScanSnap Evernote Edition sitting on my desk. (I even have Evernote desk accessories sitting next to the scanner.) I'm pretty well immersed in the world of Evernote.

However, I've found myself turning to other tools, most recently OneNote, with greater frequency. The main issue, and it is a big one for me, is the fragmented and inferior support for note taking and PDF editing in Evernote. I use my iPad Pro with Apple Pencil extensively. There are some great Pencil-compatible apps for iOS, including Notability, PDF Expert, and OneNote. 

Evernote, on the other hand, is stuck with a strange and fragmented approach:

PDFs can by opened using the "Annotate" tool in Evernote, which I think is built around the remnants of Skitch. It's fine for adding arrows and icons, but terrible (unusable) for handwritten notes on PDFs. It really can't be used for anything more than simple highlighting -- certainly not detailed annotation or note taking. 

Drawings and notes can be added to an Evernote Note directly through the handwriting tool, but this simply inserts an image into the note. There's no way to use this tool to take notes over multiple pages, or to use it for annotation as far as I can tell. I've also found it to the buggy, with full pages of notes lost if you switch away from Evernote to another app before saving the image and returning to the normal notes view. I will say that that, though the tool is very limited, with very few options, the Pencil support works well and writing is fluid. This tool seems to have the most potential for future development.

Finally, there is Penultimate -- a separate app I want to love but is just too buggy, too limited, and too walled off from the rest of Evernote to be truly useful. Again, no support for importing PDFs/annotation, yet another approach to handwriting, and, though the Penultimate notes live in Evernote, nothing can be done with them in the main app. 

Why, at this stage, would Evernote have three separate, incompatible and incongruous approaches to annotation/note taking, none of which begin to match the functionality of some of the other apps named?

Attached PDFs can certainly be opened in other apps, such as PDF Expert, but there is no way to get the annotated PDFs back into an Evernote note without deleting the original attachment and reattaching the PDF. That's cumbersome, and annotation seems like pretty basic functionality that Evernote should offer. 

Evernote certainly has some broader advantages over OneNote, but really needs to explore something like the "canvas" style approach used by OneNote. The ability to "print" PDFs to a OneNote page and then markup the document itself and take notes/add text/etc. all on one page is invaluable. I've pretty much switched all note taking/PDF annotation to OneNote, with Evernote still used for project management and other organizational needs, which leaves me with my own fragmentation. 

Maybe I'm missing something in Evernote's approach, but I'm a longtime user that's completely frustrated with Evernote's inferior support for annotation and handwritten notes. 

Very well written post! Couldn't have said it better and it really broke down the problems and potential. Definitely send this to Evernote social media / email, get it on their radar! This is one of the biggest hinderences / setbacks that if Evernote fixed would really help with customer satisfaction. Also, consider adding some ideas on what would your ideal annotation / PDF experience to be. More so what Evernote should do and look like, you know ?

On 10/16/2016 at 9:03 PM, EN_ROCKS said:

Agreed - EN premium is the best but is seriously lacking in supporting annotation of PDFs. I had to buy PDF Expert to markup my PDFs, then I upload them to EN but I'd much rather not have fragmentation like this. The iPad Pro + Apple pencil + EN with improved pdf annotation (i.e. pdf expert-level) would be unbeatable!

Yeah I just don't get it either 

On 1/29/2015 at 4:41 PM, PastorS said:

Is it possible to change the default font size in the mobile apps?  Too small right now.

Agreed 

On 5/23/2016 at 0:29 PM, amcoffin said:

I use Evernote extensively on my Mac, iPad Pro, and iPhone. We use shared notebooks in my office and I have a ScanSnap Evernote Edition sitting on my desk. (I even have Evernote desk accessories sitting next to the scanner.) I'm pretty well immersed in the world of Evernote.

However, I've found myself turning to other tools, most recently OneNote, with greater frequency. The main issue, and it is a big one for me, is the fragmented and inferior support for note taking and PDF editing in Evernote. I use my iPad Pro with Apple Pencil extensively. There are some great Pencil-compatible apps for iOS, including Notability, PDF Expert, and OneNote. 

Evernote, on the other hand, is stuck with a strange and fragmented approach:

PDFs can by opened using the "Annotate" tool in Evernote, which I think is built around the remnants of Skitch. It's fine for adding arrows and icons, but terrible (unusable) for handwritten notes on PDFs. It really can't be used for anything more than simple highlighting -- certainly not detailed annotation or note taking. 

Drawings and notes can be added to an Evernote Note directly through the handwriting tool, but this simply inserts an image into the note. There's no way to use this tool to take notes over multiple pages, or to use it for annotation as far as I can tell. I've also found it to the buggy, with full pages of notes lost if you switch away from Evernote to another app before saving the image and returning to the normal notes view. I will say that that, though the tool is very limited, with very few options, the Pencil support works well and writing is fluid. This tool seems to have the most potential for future development.

Finally, there is Penultimate -- a separate app I want to love but is just too buggy, too limited, and too walled off from the rest of Evernote to be truly useful. Again, no support for importing PDFs/annotation, yet another approach to handwriting, and, though the Penultimate notes live in Evernote, nothing can be done with them in the main app. 

Why, at this stage, would Evernote have three separate, incompatible and incongruous approaches to annotation/note taking, none of which begin to match the functionality of some of the other apps named?

Attached PDFs can certainly be opened in other apps, such as PDF Expert, but there is no way to get the annotated PDFs back into an Evernote note without deleting the original attachment and reattaching the PDF. That's cumbersome, and annotation seems like pretty basic functionality that Evernote should offer. 

Evernote certainly has some broader advantages over OneNote, but really needs to explore something like the "canvas" style approach used by OneNote. The ability to "print" PDFs to a OneNote page and then markup the document itself and take notes/add text/etc. all on one page is invaluable. I've pretty much switched all note taking/PDF annotation to OneNote, with Evernote still used for project management and other organizational needs, which leaves me with my own fragmentation. 

Maybe I'm missing something in Evernote's approach, but I'm a longtime user that's completely frustrated with Evernote's inferior support for annotation and handwritten notes. 

Someone said it! About dang time and so eloquently. So true. Whats more concerning to me is how long its been like this. Its not only outdated but simply not competitively useful. 

Thanks for clarifying. I guess for me it's about convenience of use. I have stuff I like to keep secure but I'm not holding any security national secrets. Nor would I care to much if someone saw my notes. But the idea of encrypting an entire group of notes / or even notebook and have it easily encrypt / decrypt easily is what I'm looking for. 

Can someone answer me this question about saferoom. Why is it that, if you change the password (for security purposes) that the note will only remember that one password and not a new updated password? Seems to be a HUGE issue in the event that you scrap or change passwords often

Awesome idea! 

12 hours ago, ilia5101982 said:

@OMNIZEN, thanks for your message. Yes, I agree that Saferoom has a problem of the usability in desktop apps. Right now we are finishing a significant update for Desktop version that will make them much simpler and less cumbersome. I will post some updates in coming weeks related to Saferoom Pro Beta version which is almost ready for Windows. Simplicity is one the essential pillars of Saferoom's development (others are security and speed) - and we are working on that.

Thanks again for your feedback - it really means a lot to us.

Thank you for taking time to reply. I'm excited to see ur group is so receptive to feedback but moreso being "in tune" with requests. I look forward to seeing what happens and using full potential of software! 

On 2/12/2015 at 8:10 AM, ilia5101982 said:

 

Hello, Evernote community,

 

We are a small team of developers and we are passionate about our new product which is Saferoom. We have been working hard to provide users with zero-knowledge encryption functionality without destroying user's productivity. We wanted to build an encryption app that will be easy to use and allow anybody protect their personal data.

 

Saferoom is now a set of mobile and desktop that together add full encryption capabilities on-top of Evernote. It means that you work with Evernote normally, and when you need to create or view an encrypted note you use Saferoom. All the time your encrypted items are part of Evernote notes, but you can see them (e.g. decrypt) only inside Saferoom app. And Evernote is just a beginning - we want Saferoom to be like "Passbook" for your encrypted data.

 

Saferoom encrypts whole note including all the resources - independently of the resource type and your password is stored on the device only. It also means that password cannot be restored - that is a price for true zero-knowledge encryption.

 

Our app is available in iTunes Store:

https://itunes.apple.com/app/saferoom-one-app-to-encrypt/id964858486

 

And in Google Play Store:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.secomsoft.Saferoom

 

 

Saferoom Desktop for MacOS and Windows are free:

 

https://itunes.apple.com/app/saferoom-zero-knowledge-encryption/id981600236

 

Windows:

http://en.softonic.com/s/saferoom:windows-mac-iphone-android-windows-phone-7-web-apps/windows

 

And also you can use Saferoom Chrome extension:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/saferoom/nnphkaehepldgkjgnlnmfmpcjkklibfj?hl=en-US

 

 

Here is a video demos of Saferoom capabilities:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzyNcs_NN5H_JVxZCeR1bFg/videos?spfreload=10

 

Any feedback is always welcomed.

I've tried saferoom. It seems like a pretty good idea. One has to consider how saferoom is different from the built in EN encryption function. From my trial of both mac and ios version its very nice software but it looses me with the duplication of the note and complexity of creating a encryption and non encrypted note. This from reading the documentation, is intentional. I really dont understand as it makes using your software cumbersome and inefficient. Having more than one of the same note, one encrypted and the other one non-encrypted creates more work for me. Im particularly look for just to encrypt and pass protect my note as simple as possible. With saferoom, I think if it were acouple less steps to do that, it would be phenomenal.