Don0819

I am just writing to say farewell to all those I have interacted with here over the last 8 years. I just found out my Evernote Personal will be renewing in May for $114 a year, after going from $45 to $64 last year. That's a 253% increase in 2 years, 78% increase this year. The trend is scary, I can't afford the product any more. Plus I don't feel like I have been on the same page as Evernote for awhile - new features are not very interesting to me, yet Web Clipper which I used a lot has been ignored for quite some time. I have unfortunately gotten very used to web clipping manually, which I will continue to do. It's a good move for Evernote - with a 78% increase in subscription this year, they could lose 40% of their users at this level and still grow revenue. So I respect that they have to do what they think they have to do to stay in business. I have exported everything, 25000 notes, into Apple Notes. The Evernote_backup tool worked great for me. Farewell, and good luck with your endeavors. And thank you to those who answered my questions over the years.

Thanks for yet another toxic reply. I am done with this unhelpful forum. I asked is it safe.

I uninstalled and reinstalled Web Clipper, after clearing cache, just to get things working better. When I clicked on Web Clipper in Safari, it asked me to allow this on all web sites (or for a day, etc.). What concerned me is it said it had access to passwords and other sensitive data. I said yes, allow, worried something in Web Clipper might not work correctly otherwise. But why does it need this access, and is it safe not to allow it?

Thanks I submitted a report.

So where is the Support menu item to file a problem?

PS - clicking Help/Share Feedback in Evernote/Mac offers this:

I know that. But consider this: 1) I have sent three reports of the Smart filing disaster in, it's been many month maybe even a year or more - no fix. Sending reports does not inspire confidence. 2) I post here in case others are having the same problem. Or so others might say they don't have the problem, or others might say they had the problem and they discovered something that fixed it. Which leads to #3 then.. 3) You always reply to problem reports like that @PinkElephant, so what is the purpose then of a forum titled "Possible Bugs/Technical Issues"? If this is all we get in this forum what's the purpose...

Besides the long-reported brain-dead "Smart filing feature" problem, an update came down 2 days ago, and now if I have not used the Clipper for some short period of time it quickly pops up a "login successful" box, then flips to another tab with its dialog box up - I Have to close it and go back to the correct tab and click it again. Also when not used for a little while, it changes settings - It moves my selection of "Smart filing" (glutton for punishment) to last used notebook, it changes my setting "Auto Close Clipper" to "Show successful clip dialog", it re-checks/turns on "Show Evernote Content....", and re-checks/turns on "Show Save to Evernote button". I know the settings are correct because they work - until they stop working. Please Evernote fix this clipper extension - it's very valuable and if it worked properly, sop much more so!

@Dave-in-Decatur I agree with you, it seems to just not be working at all.

No worries, maybe someone will chip in who knows.

@PinkElephant would it be helpful to "reset" things somehow so the smart filing started all over? It was never this bad even the first time I started to use it. If so, how could the data be reset?

Wow that’s amazing they deny the problem.

Interesting. I have never seen a dot other than when a logon is needed, and it has not gone away. Oh well! Always an adventure with WebClipper 😆

What does the blue dot on WebClipper mean? It seems to be working fine, I am signed in, clips are getting to Evernote ok? I am on Safari/Mac.

Thanks @gazumped, Evernote is back up again, but Still can't get WebClipper to enable. I have tried uninstalling/reinstalling it a bunch. It's just dimmed out. Here is what it's extensions panel looks like, any ideas?

Been getting this message for the last 5 hours, can't log into Evernote for Mac (or WebClipper): Unable to connect to Evernote. Please check your network connection and try again. I have rebooted the Mac, uninstalled/reinstalled Evernote from the App Store.

Yes it's amazing they haven't fixed this - or removed it if they can't get it fixed.

I have 300 notebooks - that's not practical at all for some users.

Actually also not true. It's missing notebook information, which is important, but that's true of any export unless you do it yourself notebook by notebook. It still has created/updated date, author, reminder, tags, tasks, location, and source URL. Just like any export.

No you are wrong - I just exported over 24000 individual selected notes by modifying the config.json file. It worked perfectly importing them int both Apple Notes and OneNote.

Ahh thanks.

To resurrect a little bit of an old thread here - I just tested to see if I could export everything from Evernote in an .enex file, and it worked. Her the instructions on modifying the config.json file, I set it to 25000, as I have over 24,000 notes. This is with the latest version of Evernote, not the legacy version. I then clicked on one note (this is on a Mac), did a Cmd-A to select all, and lo and behold all 24,000+ notes were selected! On My M2 MacBook Pro it took less than 20 minutes or so to export the file. I am testing import into Apple Notes and Microsoft OneNote next. Some prelim results on both look good, although it does not appear Apple Notes honors the noteboo/notes hierarchy I had in Evernote.

Yeah Smart Filling still works very poorly if at all. 90% of the time it just uses the last folder filed to, or the default. What a disgrace.

You are right - "Except" when you bring out a feature called "Smart Filing". If you don't intend to support it, get rid of it - admit you can't make it work. If they never brought it out there would not have been an issue, now there's a feature staring us in the face every day that does not work.

I filed a report probably a month or more ago, and smart filing is still not working for me either. It just seems to either give a random file suggestion, or the last one used. You would think something broken this long would warrant some sort of communication/expectation setting.