treelight

I have never been emotional about an application. I have never hated an application that I have become so dependent on over the years and that I used to love, since the company has now forced me to move to an update so terrible. First I was forced into the update on my iMac, the Legacy version updating without my consent no matter how many times I reinstalled it. Then when I traveled with my older MacBook, I was delighted that the Legacy version still worked, but they stopped letting me use it a couple of weeks ago and I was forced once again into the update, which was terrifying because at first it refused my login credentials. But on this older laptop — if that is the issue at all since I won't know until I return to my iMac — the new version is even more full of bugs, and incredibly slow, and I am miserable. Some things about it (I'm sure I'll think of more after I post this): When I began using the new version on my iMac, I noticed some of my entries had disappeared, and on a few of my meeting notes, typed word for word from more than hour-long meetings, which are invaluable, the notes had been truncated to only a few sentences or a couple of paragraphs. I can never get them back! I gave notes titles, but they would take minutes or longer to appear in the notes column, still indicating them as untitled. On my laptop: It takes forever to open the program or start a new note. I need to do something quickly and sit waiting for the green circle to stop and the note to fill out. Many things I do take more steps than they used to. For instance, if I do a Search more than once, the program does not show the previous search in the "Recent searches" list, even after I begin retyping it. What it does show seems completely random. It means I have to type out the entire search and add quotes every single time I do the search, which is a nuisance. I have to open a new note before I can do a Search, otherwise the search results disappear. This disrupts my workflow. I've done a Search and the program has come up with presumed results, except that the term I searched for does not appear in the results. If, after I do a Search and have my results in the notes column, the column disappears and I have to go above to re-open it. And... I can't see the note I have open in the column highlighted in the notes column, which also means I can't see what date it was created or go down the list of results note by note. I have to re-do the search to find it in the list! I've done searches which come up blank when the note I was searching for is right where I can see it. And I've searched, using quotes, for a string, but gotten just one word of the string, which gives an unusable list of many notes. Search for "Ellen" does not turn up "Ellen's." There is no way to look up spelling. If I control-click on a highlighted word, there is no option to look it up in the dictionary. I like to collect information from various sources in the menu bar Quick Note about a topic, but it has a limit on how much it can hold and cuts off at the limit. Later I find out that I did not get all I thought I had and there is no way to find it again — my research is gone! The "Legacy" version had no limit that I ever found. Quick Note in the menu bar is only open when the program is open. I want it open all the time, but there are no settings for it. This means that Quick Note is no longer quick; I have to open the program and then hide it in order to have Quick Note appear in the menu bar. By that time, I have missed out on a Zoom call discussion, even one I am leading, or some other unacceptable issue. Commands I use all the time stop working, then start again later, like Command-V, which I use all the time. (I'm sure we all do.) I hate having the "Press "/" to insert an element" below my text, cluttering up my workspace all the time! I don't wish to use AI and don't like having its green dots on my page area nor the "AI edit" box. I don't see any way to turn them off. Feels like an invasion. I much preferred having my tags at the top rather than at the bottom. I tried the Control-Command-V shortcut to copy a paragraph from my browser to Evernote in an effort to get around the Quick Note problems, and instead got an error message: "Evernote encountered an unexpected error. Not authorized to send Apple events to Safari." What on earth does that mean? I tried making an audio note but it had no sound. I hit Command-A in my Quick Note (just now) and nothing happened. Once I was unable to delete a letter by placing my cursor and hitting backspace. Once I was unable to use the trackpad to click below my text; I had to go back to the last work and hit Return to get to the next line. Recently, I tried to sign in to Evernote on a browser. It put my wrong email address in automatically. Then I put in the right one. It took several times to move to asking for my password. Once it took my password, it took me to a Error!404 page. (in the bar it says maintenancce.evernote.com). Now I can't sign in to Evernote on a browser; it won't accept my email address. Where did the fonts go"???!!!

I just wrote this to Evernote: I have Evernote 7.14 on my old iMac, but when I downloaded a new version for my new iMac I got 10,17.6. Confusing because the old iMac says I have the latest version. Then I noticed a few things, none of which I like. The new version will not let me access customer support, though I pay for Evernote Plus. The tags are down below, which I don't like. I am used to seeing them all above and it makes them an extra movement to put in, and I don't see a way to change it. The sidebar font is small and dull/grey and I don't see a preference to change it. And where is the sync button? Also, the new one has a bright green Share button and an Only You button that does nothing. I don't want either one. The Add Note button is way at the left which will make it harder to access when I have several apps open. What shall I do when I trade in my older iMac? Why would you make an upgrade that gets rid of so many good things? Can I go back to an earlier version that will work on my new iMac? I did try downloading the "Legacy App" from their page, (tried finding 7.14 also). I doesn't work on my new iMac.