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I'm still using legacy of course. But I've been a beta tester. I've given my feedback. I've watched and waited. I found the beta unusable and so I was surprised when the beta testing ended and suddenly became the live version with the slowness and the resource hog problems intact. If it's still a beta product, why make it live with the problems inherent in beta projects? I think that's what has alarmed me, EN decided to go live with a product that was nowhere near usability. Everyone here saying, "Yeah, but legacy..." are recognizing it's not usable. I'm perfectly okay with using legacy and waiting for a beta to become fully baked, but by going live with an unusable product EN seems to be saying, "We don't really know how to solve the problems."

24 minutes ago, PinkElephant said:

The users from back then say „ I a missing this, my workflow got broken there, what a mess“. All true, for me as well, but for all of us EN does offer a solution: Wave the magic wand, install legacy, get back to work. Why not simply ignore  there is a version 10 in the field, watch it as a sort of extended beta that happens while you use what you know. 

If it were a matter of features, yeah, sit back and watch and wait for features to be reincarnated. Trouble is, it is not just a matter of features. EN is slow. No getting around that. Some slowness is still workable as a tradeoff. I have a Yoga 11" that I carry with me almost everywhere. Eight gb of RAM and mostly adequate processor that gets me 6-7 hours of battery. I don't primarily use it for content creation. But taking onsite with all my notes for support solutions is invaluable. EN v. 6.25 uses 1-2% CPU and 154 mb RAM; EN v. 10 uses 92% CPU and 80-90% RAM. That's not a tradeoff. That's a deal killer.

Hi. It seems to me that almost all of your posts on the Evernote forums are about how to leave Evernote. Ultimately, it is up to Evernote what to allow in their forums, but from one user to another, I’d like to ask you to stop posting about how to leave the app, because your point has already been made—there are other options out there. If you would like to use the other apps, we wish you the best of luck with them. The information you are posting seems genuinely helpful for other information workers, but please post about other apps in other forums. Thanks.

I would think Evernote and EV users would find this info useful. Rather than a "how to leave EV" post, the poster has emphasized across many posts there is no one size fits all solution and explores methods of making information capture useful. I've delved into this topic myself as my EV notebooks span twelve years and tens of thousands of notes, clips, emails, etc. One example he has not mentioned is the Zettelkasten method of notetaking. He has not mentioned Zetlr, or Zotero, The Brain mindmapping, to mention a few. None of these will offer a complete solution to everyone, but it is to Evernote's benefit to understand how to make the program more useful in a burgeoning information environment. EV has been my capture method of choice all these years, but knowing how to go beyond capture and be able to answer my wife's question, "What are you going to do with all that information?" really concerns me. Maybe some EV users are not bothered by that. I'm pretty sure some are.

His points about EV v. 10 failings are well taken as EV was a daily part of my workflow and now that has been broken.