Bryn26

14 minutes ago, agsteele said:

v10.7.6 is just released and has an option under preferences to turn off spell-check.

How did you know that? My desktop client on 10.6.9 was reporting no available updates, but when I went to just download the installer it was indeed 10.7.6.

So glad to finally be able to use Evernote 10. This spell checker nonsense has been ridiculous.

Evernote is just getting sadder and sadder. How can a ridiculous thing like this make it into the update, after the months and months of unhappy users? I assume there was zero testing. Does Evernote still not give half a damn about the quality and pace of their development?

It's beyond disgraceful that this feature wasn't available when the new version launched, and even more so that it still hasn't been added.

I genuinely wonder if Evernote is in so much trouble as a company that they have a random dude on Fiverr managing their entire development.

On 1/8/2021 at 2:08 AM, Austin G said:

Hello everyone.
Confirming that this is still on schedule for the 10.6 update to be released this month.  Thank you all for your patience. 

I truly can't wrap my head around how slow the pace of development is. Is Evernote in so much trouble these days that they have one developer?

Just now, Dan @ WORKetc said:

Why isn't there any kind of response from evernote, anywhere?  Or if there has been and I've missed it entirely I apologise in advanced.
 

Even a simple ""hey, we hear you, we're moving in the right direction, please give us a bit more time to nail a few of these performance issues you've all been hitting up" would be awesome.  
 

The silence is alarming, the silence is nipping away at my confidence that this is all a thing that can be fixed.

Do what the rest of us are doing and switch to Nimbus Notes. Lifetime discounted account is available on AppSumo right now.

1 hour ago, Paul A. said:

I couldn't agree more. I just don't understand it. It has to be either intentional or a sign that they are overwhelmed and barely keeping their heads above water (i.e. simply have zero time to engage). Either way is very concerning.

I think they just don't want to admit that they totally botched their platform update, and fundamentally don't understand Evernote's value proposition.

Think about it:
1. Evernote increased their pricing to exclude casual users. Their entire userbase consists of people who are damn serious about note taking and clipping.
2. They then release a major update across all platforms that removes all advanced features.

Just try and wrap your head around how clueless the CEO must be for that sequence of events to happen.
 

The lack of engagement from Evernote management is shocking. The message is clear: we don't care about what our users want, we care about what we want.

Every person I know who uses Evernote has moved away or is discussing the best alternatives to Evernote. Evernote removed basically everything that made their platform great.

On 10/30/2020 at 5:46 PM, eddyj said:

As long as Legacy is supported, I will stick with it. But I will be looking at alternatives if that changes.

Evernote has already said that the Legacy edition won't be kept around indefinitely. Considering what a red flag v10 is for Evernote as a company, and how in tune they are with the needs of their target market, I've already bought the lifetime Nimbus Notes account on Appsumo. All the features that matter to me are available there.

On 11/3/2020 at 10:51 AM, gyrex said:

I've just updated to v10 on a Mac and there's no preferences! What a stupid decision to remove it! Are there any workarounds?

Yes, I have found a very effective workaround:

Go to AppSumo and buy the lifetime account for Nimbus Notes.

8 hours ago, Shane D. said:

@gazumped Yes, you can still use an older version.

Please see this resource:
https://help.evernote.com/hc/articles/360052560314

Thank god for this. Busy installing version 6 now. 10 is unusable imo. It's basically the beta but released to the public.

It doesn't seem like any of the grievances from the beta were addressed for this public release. I just manually installed it, and what a mistake that was. I can't even disable spellcheck because the entire preferences menu is gone (at least in Windows), rendering many of my notes unreadable thanks to the red lines everywhere.

I'm going to start looking for an alternative to Evernote. It's not just that there are issues - those can be fixed. It's the fact that the beta was pointless and feedback was not acted upon. This is not a company I trust with a product that is so critical to my life.

1 hour ago, pemaje said:

I'm running the 6.17 beta and don't have the preferences either...😔

It is distressing that multiple beta updates have occurred without such a simple feature being added. Thanks for your input. 

In my opinion, Evernote should not be inviting users to participate in a beta when the software is better described as in an alpha state.

If much needed updates haven't occurred yet I assume they will take much longer to arrive. I'll uninstall the beta then and reinstall the regular Evernote app. 

I installed the beta today, and I see I cannot access Evernote preferences anymore in the Windows app. I want to disable the spell check because it has been enabled suddenly and is making the entire app borderline unusable to me. Red lines everywhere make for a deeply unpleasant experience. Even if it was possible to add items to the spell checking dictionary, the nature of my work would make that a pointless endeavor.

Can this please be updated urgently? I find it absurd that such a basic setting is not available. I've looked around my online account settings and the app's options, and I see nothing to this effect. 'Save data at log out' is the only preference for the app.

App details:
v6.19.0 1643 beta 
Editor: v107.1.13786
Service: v1.19.6
OS: Windows 10 Pro (2004, 19041.450)
Evernote tier: Premium

Thanks. Regards, Bryn.