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  1. I'd like to add my voice to the chorus of people making it clear that this is a massive bug that must be fixed for Evernote iOS to be truly functional. I have recently dropped my Evernote Premium directly because of this bug, due to the fact that it causes multitasking to be unusable. And yes, it is a bug. As evidenced by both the quote from staff above and the fact that plenty of non-Apple iOS apps handle this functionality (i.e. holding position) perfectly fine (e.g. Google Docs). This bug is a workflow killer and the fix should be a top priority.
  2. Then you're just back to providing a normal "undo" option, or simply separate metadata for tag updates vs content updates. They literally probably have the latter, they just need to offer it as a sort filter. The bottomline is that the inability to correct errors is terrible functionality. Lots of ways to fix it, but it needs to be fixed.
  3. THE PROBLEM DESCRIBED BELOW LEADS ME TO ADVISE AGAINST USE OF EVERNOTE BUSINESS UNTIL CORRECTED OR SOMEONE EXPLAINS TO ME A DIFFERENT REMEDY... Additionally, the functionality gaps below were directly confirmed with Evernote through Chat. Thus the issues were acknowledged, and no remedy was provided, by Evernote before I posted this request. The system currently does not allow you to undo tag changes (e.g. reversing "delete a tag") or even sort notes by when tag changes occurred. This can create HUGE problems. For instance, if you decide on a new organization system and accidentally delete the old tag before adding the new tag, there is no way to recover the related notes except to go searching for them manually. One point of Evernote is that it gets away from traditional folder-hierarchy organization, leaning into deep tagging organization, but the inability to undo a mistake makes that very same tag organization EXTREMELY fragile, particularly for commercial contexts. Within personal use case scenarios this is seriously problematic, but for Business users this is DANGEROUS (imagine accidentally losing everything related to a client and not being able to recover it). Even admins can make mistakes (I personally am an Evernote power user and beta tester for the iOS app and I just did it) and we need to be able to back up. This also seems like a very strange gap in functionality as "Undo" is one of the basic common UX functionality elements of modern software (including Back, Forward, Multi-Tab/Window, etc). And as I say above, you don't even need to add traditional undo functionality, you just need to log a tag change as a note "update". We could then pull notes by time updated and fix the error. As it stands right now BOTH a straightforward "undo" option and the (backstop) "time-updated" option are absent. Please help make this fix a priority by upvoting this post. If a power use like myself can make this mistake it is a serious flaw that should be addressed and it seems simple.
  4. I want to thank everyone who concentrated on this issue (including up-voting the top post) and Evernote for fixing 2 of the 3 problems originally identified (we still don't have the same desktop organization in iOS but that was the least important of the requests). Great evidence that Evernote is watching and responding where they can to user feedback! šŸ‘šŸ‘
  5. Huge thanks to the users who helped bring this issue to the attention of the company, and to Evernote for an excellent functionality improvement! My only question is what to complain about next.... Hmmmmm....
  6. Yeah, that's useful... You've got a weird functionality gap (multi tag search, not any partial character string), that used to be available, is still available on some versions of the system, users are confused and repeatedly wondering why this is or when it might be remedied, then I come along proposing that it is because of the numerous disconnected feature requests not getting enough traction, I post to a variety of threads asking people to hop on board one particular request so that it can gain some momentum... and you are going to report me for spamming?
  7. If you agree with my post above please use the arrow buttons at the top to vote this UP and get Evernote to pay attention to this problem. Thank you!
  8. I am suggesting that we consolidate this request to get the votes upā€¦ I am suggesting mine because it already has a number of votes repliesā€¦ The post is here, https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/88379-feature-request-improved-tag-functionality-for-ios/ This request keeps popping up but I believe it is getting ignored because it doesnā€™t get a critical mass of attention at any one moment, Iā€™d like to see if we can get everyone on board to bring this up the list and to Evernoteā€™s attention. Thank you!
  9. I am suggesting that we consolidate this request to get the votes upā€¦ I am suggesting mine because it already has a number of votes repliesā€¦ The post is here, https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/88379-feature-request-improved-tag-functionality-for-ios/ This request keeps popping up but I believe it is getting ignored because it doesnā€™t get a critical mass of attention at any one moment, Iā€™d like to see if we can get everyone on board to bring this up the list and to Evernoteā€™s attention. Thank you!
  10. The point of the problem I and others keep pointing out, is that when you get to the point of a robust tagging system you could have dozens or hundreds of tags, search syntax requires you to remember exactly how you titled things (e.g. was that "Rob" or "Robert"). That's not possible with so many tags, thus the need for a search functionality where we can see our existing tags and tap to select, or a search functionality where you can enter the first couple characters and it offers suggestions... Works perfectly fine on the desktop versions, and doesn't seem like so much to ask on mobile... I've even heard this DOES work on Android, and I know it used to be available on iOS.
  11. Please increase tags functionality for iOS devices: 1) We need *simple* multi-tag search. 2) We need auto-populate of tag names. 3) We need the tag library to reflect our desktop organization (e.g. order, nesting, etc), just as with Notebooks. The iOS apps are horridly crippled without these functions in place. Without them, you have only a few options: 1) Do without multi-tag filtering... Do you have something tagged for a person AND as an agenda item (something to talk about next time you see that person)? Too bad, you can only pull up EVERYTHING for that person, which may include years of emails, mtg notes, etc. OR you can pull up EVERYTHING tagged as "agenda", thus including large numbers of items irrelevant to who you are actually standing with. Insert your own example of useful multi-characteristic filtering, then accept that you can't accomplish them. 2) Utilize saved searches... This works perfectly, but causes, as it has caused with my Evernote, your Shortcut list to become monstrously long defeating to some degree the idea of a "shortcut list". In the end, you choose a few definitely needed multi-tag searches and resign yourself to option #1 above for most things. 3) Attempt to use complicated boolean search strings... This works in a highly non-intuitive way AND requires you to remember the exact wording of your desired tags, often difficult in situations where you are looking for a person for instance and don't remember if you listed them as Dan or Daniel. If you utilize an extensive tag list (a strength of the desktop Evernote applications) this works almost never, thus you resort to a few items under option #2, and mostly surrender to option #1. It seems quite strange that this is an unavailable functionality, especially because of how many people tell me it WAS available prior to 2011/2012. It's a very frustrating situation which is crippling the usability of the iOS apps for easy daily use. Please fix, or at least give us some idea of why this oft asked for functionality is still unavailable. Thank you!
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