Madflute

44 minutes ago, PinkElephant said:

There are partially competing keyboard shortcuts by a bunch of apps, and the combinations (especially the „good“ ones) are limited. Plus there are some shortcuts that in parts of the world are used to create special characters found in the local languages. Not all shortcuts in EN were made editable, for whatever reason.

There are no one size fits all rules on shortcuts. You can edit some system shortcuts in MacOS settings, you need to take into account which other apps you use and then make you own „personal strategic shortcuts plan“ to set the combinations that will work for you. 

This comparison can help you transfer from legacy to v10. Note there are some new shortcuts that did not exist in in legacy: 

https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/208313358

The issue is that the Legacy had menu items that I could hook with Keyboard Maestro. V10 won't let me.

Do you have any suggestions on how to deal with slow UI responses?

The one thing that bothers me most right now is this. My tables contain hyperlink-embedded strings. The Legacy had let me right-click to copy the string with the embedded string as a whole, which I could paste to other applications that support hyperlink-embedded strings. V10 won't let me do this. I have to select the entire string first before right-clicking.

But the issue is making a selection within a table in V10. The UI response is so erratic. It's slow, and the resulting selection may be impartial or incorrect. It's just frustrating me 😓

23 minutes ago, PinkElephant said:

You can edit many keyboard shortcuts. Open the shortcuts help (little symbol bottom of left panel), and hover with the mouse over a shortcut, without clicking it. A handle (4 dots) will appear to the left of the shortcut. Click it, and if there is an edit option in the little menu, you can change it.

No scripting in v10, as a general restriction by the framework based design.

Hi, thank you for your response. The editable shortcuts you talk about are very limited to system functions such as Open Evernote Helper. 

First, I need to disable ⌘＋⌥＋F, which is conflicting with my critical Finder operation (why does Evernote have ⌘＋^＋E and ⌘＋⌥＋F for the same function anyway?). And the one I used hundreds of times a day with Evernote Legacy, ⌘＋⇧＋A, to display all the notes in the list view presorted.

The only reason I stayed with macOS12 was because Evernote Legacy won't work with macOS13. Evernote Legacy was that much important to me. My Evernote Legacy went into auto-update, which updated to the current version with the app name still remaining Legacy. What a nasty trick.

I am now forced to use the current version, and I have been very unhappy—the uneditable hotkeys conflict with other global shortcuts. There is no Show All Notes. The hotkey to Notes, ⌘＋⌥＋２ won't work. Only ⌘＋⌥＋[２] NumPad works. Ridiculous. And there are no menu items I can use Keyboard Maestro to macro. Just painful.

And most of all, the current version is maddeningly slow, especially the tables I use most often. I know there is no solution to my agony. I just had to vent. Thanks for listening.

Woa! Thank you so much! Problem solved!

Hi, I need help desperately. Something unthinkable happened.

I have a note with an Apple Numbers spreadsheet attached which is shared with a co-producer. The data we entered recently disappeared. My last entry was on August 16, and my co-producer's last entry was September 2. For some reason the file last update date went back to May 22 and all the data in between has lost. I don't know what to do. Please help.

Thank you @PinkElephant for your response.

This is a tough one. I set up shared notebook for them but if they can't create/attach their own tags, I have to keep attending them. Is there any way to transfer the ownership of the notebook so they can go on their own?

I am somewhat puzzled by this limitation.

I do a lot of shared notebooks with my clients. When it comes to tagging, the things get a bit gray to me. What is the tagging rules on shared notebooks? It seems the tags I created cannot be applied by my clients? It can be applied only from my side if I created that tag from my side?

Here is the weird one I never experienced before.

1. Went to the client house
2. Opened her Evernote logged in as her
3. I created a new notebook on her desktop app
4. I created a new tag on her desktop app

But it won't let me apply that tag (auto fill not working) to a new note that created on her desktop app. This was a head scratcher since I had never seen this one.

I am happy to report "Forgot Password" did the trick. Thank you everyone!

Thank you @agsteele,

Since my friend sighed up with Google SSO, she doesn't have Evernote login info. I assume the Password Reset would create one. I will tell her to try it. If it din't create a new password, disconnecting the Google account will end up bad.

Hi,

I introduced Evernote to one of my friends. She created he Evernote account with Google SSO only to realize Scannable won't connect to her account because it doesn't have Google SSO option.

I think it's better for her to get out of Google SSO and login with email/password but I couldn't find the way to do this. Is it possible? Any help would be appreciated.

3 hours ago, Brendan Murphy said:

Will this work? https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/online/compress-pdf.html

Thank you for your response. Actually this is one of the first things I tried. My 120MB+ PDF saved only 2-3MB with this service. My PDFPenPro does a better job but not good enough to make it less than 50MB to work with new Evernote limitation.

11 hours ago, Brendan Murphy said:

You can use Preview to split the document.  Just copy the pages you want to create a new document with, then select File -> New From Clipboard and it will create a new document with just the copied pages. 

Thank you for your response. Unfortunately splitting a document won't work for my needs. Brother has a really good PDF compression algorithm before outputting to a file, but I lost this amazing function when I returned their useless document scanner. I wonder where they got the compression software from. It was quite amazing. A 120MB+ PDF became less than 50MB without compromising the integrity. The only requirement was the original be 300dpi or compression won't even kick in. And this compression just apply while the data is still coached within iPrint & Scan software. Does anyone know what I am talking about?

After 5 month of agony, finding out I can go back to Legacy version was ecstatic. Since yesterday, I am back to my happy Evernote life! All the lost functions are back, and the performance is back!

Now I am very curious. Can someone pitch me what's so great about the new Evernote ( Mac desktop version) about? I don't see it. To me, nothing about this new version is good.

On 3/15/2021 at 9:00 PM, PinkElephant said:

If you are still missing a key function, you can install and run the legacy client side by side:

 

This is incredible! I am truly ecstatic! Everything I have been suffering since the new Evernote is gone. All the Notes are opening with any latencies. 50+MB PDF are displayed. Work Chat is working as it used to be. This is truly incredible. Thank you! Thank you!

14 hours ago, Geert Vander Veken said:

On the other hand web-version looks OK.

Not for me, with any browsers I have. They are exact the same. Not only that, it takes 2 min to login for me. At least the desktop version doesn't do that.

6 hours ago, PinkElephant said:

We believe you are able to copy and paste your own postings.

You don’t need to prove it by double posting - once is enough,

Sorry, what are you talking about?

I have a note that is a accumulative record since January 2017. It contains more than 1,100 rows of tables with hyperlinks and check boxes. I had no problem until the new Evernote GUI. Since then, it is getting slower and slower. As of today, it takes more than a minute to load and more than 15 seconds to see what I just typed. I cannot create a new note since the point of doing this is to find the old ones then copy/past to create a new entry that tracks the date/time.

The only solution I can think of is to move all the data of this note to a spreadsheet but I don't know how. Any help would be appreciated.

6 hours ago, Brendan Murphy said:

How large is your PDF?  For really large PDFs, you lose the "View As" option.  I don't remember what the threshold is, but I think it's around 20 or 25 MB. 

Also, the latest version is 10.9.10, so you may want to try and upgrading to that to see if it resolves your issue. 

Oh, sorry, I am already 10.9.10 now. It seems 50MB is the cutoff point. This change is new to v10.8.5 since I had no problem viewing 1 page on all the scanned magazines. Now they are all attachment and this is hard.

Do you have any cheap way to reduce PDF file size without compromising the image quality? PDFPen Pro got me 20MB but that's not enough to make it smaller than 50MB. 

6 hours ago, Mike P said:

You have quoted a very old post.

Yes, sorry about that. This forum doesn't send out notification when my post has a response even though I have email notification selected in my profile.

Thank you for ⌘+/ shortcut. To my surprise, ⌘+1~9 is already assigned to random notes. How can I edit them? I can't find "edit shortcut" option. Thank you for your help.

On 11/4/2020 at 10:31 AM, Mike P said:

alt-ctrl-1

I am on Mac so I assume it Opt+Cmd+1 but that get me to the dashboard instead of all Notes.

My macOS version just updated to v10.8.5 today, and realized the PDFs I had as View As 1 page is all showing as attachment, and the option to change is gone. What's weird is there are some PDF files that still gives me the option to change but the majority of the PDF notes are not showing that option (see the screenshot) and just sitting there as attachment.

HELP! I am loosing my mind.

Evernote became so hard to use since v10. I am seriously considering canceling my subscription. So far the changes has been nothing but pain.

Mac v10.1.7 update has been quite upsetting. How come they took away so many features. Or am I blind and just can't find the features I am used to? Since none of my support tickets have been answered, hope someone could help me here.

• When I create a note in a shared notebook, I used hit [Share] which opens a chat with the link to the note where I write a message about the note. This feature is gone. I need it back so badly.
• Preferences is gone. How do I disable Evernote from the menu bar? I don't want to have it there.
• How do you customize keyboard shortcuts? This feature is also gone.
• ⌘ + ⇧ + A is no longer showing me All Notes. How do I jump back to All Notes when I am in a specific notebook?
• The notification icon is gone. I need it to see what others updated when.
• Sync icon is gone. I need it when I can't wait for 5 min.
• Window position is not remembered. Every time I start and login Mac app, it opens centered where I don't want it to be. Why this way? Frustrating.
• Copying Link is gone. How one is supposed to copy a link?

Thank you for any help! I am loosing my mind!

-Hiro

I have 1TB internal SSD but most of the spaces are used for my sample libraries for my performing. This can't be external drive for the access speed reason (also not a list I will take for live performance reason).

My last question. Can Evernote db on an external drive? Can symlink work?

Thank you both for chiming in.

So, is the consensus is that the Mac users are pretty much doomed? I am about 22GB in on this MBP. I scan a lot of old magazines so I have then with me when I write articles. I did not know that is the space all of 5 Macs I use is using for Evernote.

This is really tough.