Secret Code

This issue has been affecting me quite a lot recently, and I see from my notes that it was also an issue in February this year. (Not that it wasn't at other times, just these are times when I got worked up enough to make notes, and now to post!) Although there are far too few data points to go on it does seem others have posted in this thread at those times ... which supports my belief it's related to server load issues ... in that when Evernote's servers are slow to respond it exposes bugs in the web client design. This is what I observe (new web client only; I don't think I've seen this in the old web client although I do revert to it for various features): Very occasionally I get an error message - a red banner "failed to save note ..." (or failed to delete) which disappears before I can screen-capture it. But usually no error indication at all Often accepts edits and appears to be saving (tick mark with circular animation), but multiple copies eventually show up with different amounts of the typed text, as many have described in this thread Sometimes tag edits, reminder date changes and folder moves do not get applied: they are displayed for a few seconds then the note reverts to what it had before The duplicate notes are not in a logical time order (assuming the note display is in time order), ie the most complete note is not necessarily the most recent. It's as if the notes are sorted only to a granularity of 1 minute. I can't comment on this, appealing though it sounds: What I think is happening is that the web client saves to the server every few seconds (as it should), and when there is a timeout due to slow server performance, the following happens: Edits to the note body get treated as a note conflict and the server saves a new note Edits to tags, reminder dates and folder moves just get lost (which is worse than raising a edit conflict) Under unknown rare conditions, the server end actually reports an error to the client And when you manually refresh the web client some time, all the conflicted notes are shown - except that the web interface does not seem to do anything to mark note conflicts. edit: I should answer the questions from the first page: I avoid having multiple Evernote tabs for this reason No Windows or Mac clients open Android client running but not open No noticeable connectivity issues at my end No shared notes Browser Firefox 47 (currently) on KDE Linux