redeye

Thanks for the good explanation.

Mojave 10.14.6

Legacy EN 7.14 = RAM usage idle 5 mins after launch is 275MB

Latest EN 10.17.8 = RAM usage idle 5 mins after launch is 696MB.

EN 10 clearly uses much more memory to just load and display the note list.  

In EN 10 click on the Home icon in sidebar and memory usage 886MB. Its a pity these newer apps are written with little respect for machines that have only 4GB or 8GB of RAM. We do have other applications to run, please don't take it all Evernote!

I use Dark Mode on a Mac and experience the same issue now and then. It is caused by the content of the note, especially if you have cut and paste into Evernote. You will find the cursor is white in most of your other notes. There must be some control character in the affected note that is turning the cursor from white to black.To bring back the cursor I select the text I suspect has triggered the bug, then Format --> Simplify Formatting.  Surprised the forum regulars didn't know about that bug which has been around for years! 

On 10/14/2020 at 11:12 AM, Nick L. said:

No, the editor can still display some colors not available in the picker. Moving forward you're limited to these colors. 

Crazy decision by Evernote. What was the reasoning behind limiting our colours ? Any plans to fix this ? Will you ever add macOS colours like banana, yellow, lime, spring, turquoise and carnation (in pencil palette) into your picker ?  I used these a lot. I'm sticking with Evernote 7 until EN 10 gets more colours. If 7 breaks I'll move my notes to Onenote which still lets me use a wide selection of macOS colours.

I'm staying on old version if v10 has so few colours.

I've given up unlinking them over and over.  If you use Apple Notes on a Mac there are Substitution options and one of these is Smart Links. I've resorted to Apple Notes for notes that I don't want auto linked. I then create a short note in Evernote with a reminder to look in Apple Notes!  

Since using dark mode I've notice this too. Not sure if it is dark mode itself or a bug in general with the updated version. Anyway, I found the font color change sticks if I select the offending text block and apply 'simplify formatting'. That returns it back to white. I then change the color again and found that it stays. It could be something to do with text that has been pasted in from external sources having certain ascii codes in it.

I mainly use a Mac as a desktop computer and Windows when mobile with a laptop. Dark mode is great on the eyes however changing font color of a block of text on the mac (usually a light shade to contrast nicely with the dark background) makes reading that text on Wndows really difficult because you end up with light font on white background. If Windows also had dark mode I could use colored fonts on the Mac without this hassle.