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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.