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THANK YOU for making me feel a little less alone. I have not yet submitted a support ticket, but I shall do so right away. My problem, by the way, is that I am working on text I have clipped. So I already have a number of small headers set up for me. Therefore, I really need Evernote to sort this out. Filling out a ticket right now ... ... actually, no, I'm not. Why do I have to go on a search to find out where to submit a ticket? I have to jump on a call, so I'll look later. Didn't there used to be something right in the app to report a problem?

Very bizarre. I am able to bold or un-bold medium and large headers, but I am unable to do the same for small header. I highlight the heading, click on the "B" on the formatting bar, and nothing happens. I hope that this glitch gets corrected. I don't like the look of headers in bold. Font and spacing is enough of an indicator.

Hello, and thank you! (And I'm sorry for not getting back to you. Busy week.) I had indeed been working only inside the app. Once I double-click and open the note in a separate window, I can see the title as in Legacy. Clearly I have not been exploring the new app as much as I should. Thank you again!

There are fewer and fewer Legacy capabilities that haven't yet been migrated to the new platform. My request is for a really minor one, but in Legacy I like the ability to scroll down through long notes and still see the title of the note at the top of the screen. I find that helpful (1) because I include useful information in my note titles and (2) because I frequently go on to other things, and when I return to Evernote it helps me remember what I was working on or reading.

Thank you! I will try to find the support page and report it. The copy/paste would work too; I'll practice that in the meantime.

This problem persists both for Chrome and Firefox. I have clipped a simplified article to Evernote and tried to print it. In both Chrome and Firefox all that comes up in the preview is the first page. Printing from the Windows 10 Legacy application is the only way I can print notes. I see that this problem was first spotted as far back as October, and some claim that it was fixed. I cannot confirm that. Is someone working on this problem? I'm really trying to move to the new platform completely, but I cannot do so if printing is a problem.

No, that's true. I didn't. But it all worked, so I was happy. For a number of my development tools, the vendors do make such information available. And for Evernote, it shouldn't be that hard to write. Thank you for confirming the status of the new database. It gives me something to think about. I'm not giving up on Evernote yet. They may win me around.

Thank you for this. And I wanted to get back to Matt, and now you as well, about a support chat I just had. They really don't recommend putting the database on a drive other than the C drive "because it might cause problems with the application." So: #1 -- that's nonsense. Data are data and code should be able to work with data as long as the files are reachable using whatever addressing is supported by the OS. I seem to work just fine as I am, and I'm not putting data on a program drive when I have a proper data drive. Period. And #2, you sure are right about the new database not being quite the equivalent of the old. For example: notes created offline have to be exported to be loaded once online (which is not how it works now, I can assure you; my internet provider had a cable cut recently, and I worked offline for two days, and everything synced as it should to the web as soon as I was back online; I didn't need to do anything special). And #3 -- why do we have to speculate about this database? With all the blog and update nonsense they write, can't someone put out an architecture diagram with some text explaining what we can expect from each part of that architecture? I'm scared. I'm playing with Nimbus Note really intensely, but its clipper is no substitute for Evernote, and its printing and save-to-PDF capabilities are dreadful. (They say they're working on both.) I tried Notion too, but I don't make toy notes. I have real and extensive content formatted in a way that makes those notes readable to me, and my Evernote stuff just doesn't look as good in Nimbus (albeit closer than Notion, which is atrocious). Sorry for the griping. Just needed to get it out of my system.

Hello, Matt. I am using the Legacy version (for now), and I have the same situation, even on my desktop machine, which only has 256GB for the C drive, but plenty of space on the D drive. My Evernote file structure is in fact on that D drive. I believe there are instructions on this forum for doing that and, if I remember correctly, it involved something like shutting down the Windows Evernote application, moving the entire directory from the C drive, and then restarting Evernote. Again, if I remember correctly, I was then asked where the directory was, and I pointed it to the D drive. But it might be better to look for "move database" in this forum. I'm sure that's what I did when I made the move from C to D. I hope this helps, but I must warn you: I'm really not clear on what Evernote is doing with the new version of their application when it comes to having a local database of all notes (which is what I need). So I'm not the best authority.

I'm really trying to be patient and work with the new engine as much as possible (through the web; the Windows 10 client is just too much of a step back for me at the moment), but I am just so frustrated with things that should be easy ... like printing. I'm wrestling with the fact that Evernote Web arbitrarily cuts off the amount sent to print. And I do mean arbitrary. A three page note stops on page 2. A 9 page note on page 6. And so on. I was going to try a work-around suggested elsewhere about using the "preview" pane ... but now I cannot even get that far, because I get some silly message about "image fairies." I increasingly get the feeling I'm sticking with a company that is falling apart. I spent more time working around Evernote glitches than with all other platforms I used combined (and they are far from glitch-free).

Thank you for the info. I guess it's just a question of being patient.

Home was a feature I would not have thought to request, but I do kind of like it. What puzzles me is that, for the Web version (I'm sticking with Legacy on Windows until more functionality is restored on that platform) I don't see my reminders. I would have thought that reminders would be a prominent widget on the dashboard. And then I was surprised to see that the new Evernote for Web doesn't seem to have reminders at all. (I have four in my Legacy PC version.) Does anyone have any info on the status of reminders on the new platform?

I have continued my investigations into alternatives, but I have yet to find anything that does what Evernote Legacy does for me. One benefit of this episode is that I have dug much deeper than before into workarounds for little annoyances (mostly around formatting), so my Legacy experience is actually my best Evernote experience ever. I should have paid more attention to these forums. The biggest thing that continues to bother me, and for which there is no workaround, is how "fragile" Evernote for Windows seems to be about formatting. There are times when I am just paging through a note, and some mis-typed key ends up destroying formatting in the entire note. I wish Evernote would accelerate their development of a "lock" option, which as far as I'm concerned is the only real advantage to Notion. I will certainly continue to use Evernote, switching to the free version if I have to in April, if only to preserve access to my old notes.

Kudos to @tony10000 for starting this topic. It certainly helped me vent a little and then step back and recognize what Evernote is really trying to do and then also realizing that there aren't a lot of options out there that deliver as much as Evernote does. The "Tom Solid" video posted by @gazumped is also really helpful. I watched it twice to make sure i got the most out of it. It really does seem that a number of features will be added back. My one complaint is that Evernote should be more forthcoming about what's on the backlog (little Agile talk there) and how it's currently prioritized. Would i be the only one who would feel a little better if they did that? Or has anyone found it posted somewhere, and i've just missed it?

Just noticed the Tom Solid video posted yesterday. Thank you for alerting me to it. (I took yesterday off from the machine and spent time with my stereo equipment ... er, another machine, i guess.) I agree that they should have added more to the foundation before releasing 10, but good for them for packaging Legacy for us (and even, it seems, updating it once in the past few days). I'm glad that they have rethought the codebase and started over, in essence. Evernote is 20 years old, and this should give it a new lease on life (or lease of life, if you're a Brit). I'm sticking with Legacy and will continue to enjoy all that it does for me, and i look forward to keeping track of features as they are built back on top of the new foundation.

That's an excellent point; thank you for highlighting it. Notion doesn't do it for me, and OneNote is not what it could have been. I am going to stick with the Legacy version and watch as Evernote gets its mojo back as features are added back to the new codebase. I've been in software for over 35 years, so i get the retreat to something solid (you have to do that, sometimes). I can wait for six months or more to see how things get added back.

Notion has options to export notes as PDF, HTML, and Markdown files. I've only experimented with creating PDF files from my notes — including a couple of very large notes with lots of images — and the results are excellent. Those could certainly be imported into OneNote. I have to tell you, though: despite some improvements over the past couple of years, OneNote really is very cumbersome. I have notes on something like 10 problems I've already spotted with it. And I still don't like the fact that Notion doesn't properly store notes on my drive (and takes up too much space on my limited C: drive). Getting kind of frustrated. I'm going to stick with the Legacy version and keep an eye on improvements made to the new code base.

I am indeed reviewing other options, chiefly OneNote (because I pay for Microsoft 365 Enterprise Apps anyway, and OneNote has come a long way and integrates with other Office and Teams applications) and Notion. I use Evernote for three main use cases: (1) clipping articles I want for my personal knowledge base, (2) saving important reference papers, chiefly as PDFs, and (3) note-taking while studying either personally or professionally. I started using Evernote on Windows, and so I have "grown up" being used to a certain amount of formatting, so that my notes are attractive as well as informative, and version 10 seems to undo so much of that. In particularly: clipping into version 10 yields notes that preserve almost none of the formatting that works just fine with version 6.25.2.9198 (309198). I've played with some importing into Notion, and that does a pretty good job of format preservation, although there are some portions of my notes which don't seem to make it over. But at least it is a current, supported import tool. OneNote had an importer, but Microsoft no longer updates it. That may not be a problem, as my attempts at importing so far have been very successful. Perhaps there is some third party out there that has developed a more up-to-date importing tool. One problem with Notion: there doesn't seem to be a way to move its on-machine cache to another drive. Clogging up the system drive ("...\AppData\Roaming\Notion") with data is very, very poor practice. Evernote and OneNote can be located on my main data drive. So, yes. I'm with you. I am sticking with "Legacy" for now, but I will be making a decision between now and the end of the year to either stay with Evernote or to make a complete change. Good luck with your decision.

Thank you for letting me know that. I double-clicked and went for coffee, so 10 minutes wasn't enough for it to bring up the note. I think i'll wait for a couple of updates to the 10 codebase before giving it another try. But, by the way, the lesser quality of clipping does have me worried. I wish i had a second machine on which to experiment with the new version.

Thank you, my friend. I will do just that. I guess I was just so excited by the new codebase that I wanted to give it a whirl. I've also noticed that clipping from the Web Clipper does a much poorer job than it does in 6.25. I guess i should just stay in touch with this forum and gauge the community's endorsement of version 10 before installing.

I made the apparently mistake of updating last night (and now I need to figure out how to go back to 6.25). My notes look okay within the overall application, but when i double-click on a note, the pop-up window shows only the correct note title but nothing else in that window. I am used to being able to work with notes in that way, so that i can size them next to other material from which i am taking notes. Is anyone else having this problem?

Hello! Actually, I think this one was down to Firefox, not Evernote. Despite a policy that is supposed to delete all cookies when I exit Firefox, some things were being left behind, including a couple of Evernote cookies. When I cleared them, syncing went back to working. Everything is fine now, and I'm keeping an eye on Firefox (making sure to "manage cookies" and manually clear my browsing content when shutting down for the day.

I'm not sure what has changed, but I am unable to save notes from Firefox using Evernote Web Clipper (version: 7.13.1.1-fdf32c3). I am able to select Article or Simplified Article, and the preview shows correctly. But when I try to save, after telling me it is saving the note the message changes to "Syncing" ... and it hangs there. I just came back from lunch, and it's still cycling 60 minutes after I last tried it. I anyone else seeing this? I know for certain that I was taking and saving and syncing notes yesterday without any problem whatsoever. Firefox hasn't updated in the meantime, nor has Windows. Really puzzled by this one. In the meantime, I'm using Chrome when I need to clip something. Evernote Web Clipper works lightening-quick from Chrome, as it used to from Firefox.

Hello. It's the very end of August, 2020, and the problem persists in my Evernote for Windows app, version info as follows: 6.25.1.9091 (309091) Public (CE Build ce-62.6.10954). Any reason that this can't be fixed?

Thank you for that suggesting. I'm on Windows 10, but I will definitely look up Textastic alternatives.