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3 minutes ago, DTLow said:

That's high - restart your device

Yeah it's high... is there anything I can do to stop it from taking up so much space? Restarting won't solve this problem it's been happening for years. 

Just now, DTLow said:

Have you run the Activity Monitor app to get some details on your device activity?

Yeah Evernote takes up 2-5GB of memory, it's crazy

On 5/8/2019 at 2:17 PM, PinkElephant said:

How new is new ?

And have you activated file vault ?

My experience is from a MBPro, new and shiny. A little more horsepower than the air, but it was not working well for the first days.

With support from the apple hotline, we found out that there was a LOT of background activity related to syncing hundreds of GB with iCloud plus files moved from my Win-PC and building the encrypted structure on the SSD. Because EN in itself is a database, there are many transactions going on while you are typing. It is not a simple editor, grabbing letters from the keyboard as you go hacking away.

If there is this background stuff (check for a process called „mds“ in the activity monitor, another is „windowserver“), it takes away a lot of CPU power. The Apple support has the chance to run a diagnosis through the web, so use it.

It was not an EN issue, I had „beach balls of death“ in pages, safari and other apps as well, when EN was not even opened.

After the initial stuff was though, everything started to work fine, as expected.

Can you please tell me what you actually did that worked? Reading over this it sounds like you diagnosed the issue but I don't see any solution here. How did it actually end up working? Evernote is SO SLOW ITS RIDICULOUS

I am also having this same issue, I have a 32" external monitor that I need to zoom in on every single note which is quite frustrating. Would be even better if you could change the default zoom only for a given screen so I could have two default zooms for my laptop and my external monitor