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Maybe a matter of semantics but I would argue no, there is no TOC feature. Evernote supports linked notes period. Sure, you can have multiple links and call it a TOC, but there is nothing native to the product to distinguish a list for any purpose from one being used as a TOC.  The old way was an actual additive feature that served a strong purpose for me.

So tested flow to get what I had...  From the point of selected notes, the old way was one click.  The new way is to manually copy the links, make a new note, apply a template. Paste the links. The template has the url in note body.  I cut that, then Ctrl-Shift-I, paste into url.  Even going tag driven, I'd need to click tag field and select tag.  It doesn't seem you can prepopulate those either.  I think it's ultimately note info as well.

Ugggghhhh, seems you can't template note information.  

On 8/20/2022 at 8:59 AM, PinkElephant said:

TOC is super easy now in v10: Select a number of notes, click on the 3 dots in the blue popup menu, select copy internal links, Copy App links, go to the TOC note, insert the links.

Done.

The key difference is the TOC note needs to be pre-created and then toggle back and force at least one cycle.  The old way created and populated the note in one click.  So the old way was super easier. ..and it had the built in link for search filtering. So I guess I'll try a template if I can prepopulate the url to a 'type' like the old way.  Then get links copied, create the new note, apply template, paste links.

Does anyone know a way to alias an internal link in the caption of a task?  The caption will accept the raw link and it is functional, but it doesn't auto alias to the linked note title. I suppose I can manually type the title followed by the link, but that's quite long and tedious.  

On 9/27/2021 at 5:45 PM, PinkElephant said:

It is a bit hidden, but it is there:

1. Hold down the opt key (Mac client), then click on the help menu.
2. Choose Troubleshooting / Problem solving / whatever it is called in English.
3. Choose Reload, or even Force Reload from the submenu
4. You will see the page refreshing, and a circle briefly showing, the sign of syncing traffic

If you have problems with crashes, it often is caused by corrupted local data. You can try this (Mac again):

1. Go to the Evernote menu, Preferences, and uncheck „Keep data when leaving“
2. Lag out of EN (File menu), quit EN (cmd-q)
3. If you want to be very sure, restart the Mac
4. Open EN, log back in, wait for it to run an initial sync. 

Note sure if there at time of original post, but Reload is CTRL R now in Windows.

The TOC was important to me because I deal with a huge software product family.  I have dozens of TOCs for the product manuals of every product by version.

I tracked down incentive pricing for upgrading from legacy subscription, so now I've given myself a year to embrace the new version or move on...  Mostly it looks promising since revisiting the new version this week.

Other examples I haven't tried in new version yet.

resource:application/pdf

resource:application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document

UPDATE: These still seem to be valid on new notes in new version.

Search is

sourceurl:"file://Table of Contents"

In legacy which I've abandoned yesterday this info was in the information section of the note by default of using TOC command.

UPDATE: I can copy 'file://Table of Contents' into URL property of note information for consistency vs switching to a tag, but still the entire process was one click maybe 2 seconds once the notes were initially selected. Now it's several actions.

An additional drawback to the new way is that it doesn't embed source metadata anymore.  One of my favorite saved searches was for that source type.  I suppose I could solve with tag, but just one more step in a process that used to one click.

If it still works with legacy wouldn't that imply it's more than an OS issue?  Maybe it's an implementation choice issue as well.  Regardless, I'm throwing my crutches away and going all in on v10 to once and for all determine if I like it enough to upgrade from Plus to Personal. Foreseeing the day when legacy just goes away, stops working or becomes a security issue with lack of maintenance.  I'll at least continue with Plus as far as it goes as a file management and storage solution for the foreseeable future. Just don't do much else these days like actual note taking, tasks, or other project related activities. Like many others the snip into note in one key command was key to many of my troubleshooting workflows. Third most important feature for me after OCR and PDF searching.  In general I've adopted Windows 11 on personal laptop and multiple work devices and find it no better or worse than Windows 10.  I actually find some of the settings GUIs more useful than Windows 10 where I always relied on the Win 7 like legacy control panels.  

It's just wrong. I like EN in general enough to ignore it, but Photos have nothing to do with my use case.  I believe in the most minimal permissions absolutely needed to get the job done.  If I'm not saving the image to Photos in parallel with the note, there's no need for it to have access to my Photos. Ultimately it doesn't need access because I turned it back off and still working.  It's just sloppy and maybe in this example it's harmless, but another example of sloppiness may not be. It's also frustrating that in modern software, not unique to EN, there's no direct support so people are left to figure these things out on their own.  EN chose this platform so they have responsibility to be aware of platform changes and educate customers, and be available for customer questions.

I suppose it could still be an anomaly of iOS, but that's not the type of setting I changed, and technically I didn't change anything permanently. I took a wild guess that for some reason it wanted access to my Photos and changed that access from None to All Photos.  After that worked I thought, that's stupid, I don't want that and I turned access to Photos back to None.  Then out of curiosity I did a power off again and it's still working.

UPDATE: It works if I give app access to Photos.  Why?  It should only need access to camera, and I'm pretty sure I never gave access to photos before unless it's a default change in iOS. Still, why is camera not good enough? Weird, I just changed it back to None out of curiosity and it's still working.

Same issue, still at 14.8.  I use this feature all the time for receipts and general documentation of serial #s etc.  It just quit working out of the blue last week or week before.  Today I did a hard reset and downloaded the latest version, same.  It takes the image, lets you select Saving As preference, but refuses to actually save. Every button and selection works except save. I don't see anything in app settings that would make a difference.  I rely on this so heavily t's getting tedious to work around.

I have yet to click on it since these are typically only one year discounts, so need to decide if going forward I really WANT Premium FULL price LONG TERM as I certainly don't NEED it.  However while signed into my account I have offers to upgrade which would seem only to make sense if upgrade not new, so maybe depends on the origination of the link as to the context.

Who knows, and how repeatable?  Just thought it was worth mentioning there was a process of hope, that could be tried proactively in shorter time frame.

9 minutes ago, PinkElephant said:

Good for you - buffering on crash is not a bad strategy. This was inside of the EN app for iOS ? And as I understand the buffer was reactivated when trying the next scan, some days later ?

Correct however one image was missing, but maybe some type of unrecoverable corruption with that image was cause of remaining never synch-ing (5 days).  FWIW the app had been shutdown and reopened multiple times as well, at least in foreground.  I never did a hard reset of the phone like after iOS upgrade or something.

On 7/9/2019 at 9:59 AM, DTLow said:

I also have photos sent to my photo album (user setting)

I always felt like managing the photo album would be a hassle, but this is not first hiccup with photo note, so may reconsider.

Interesting follow-up.  I was at the dentist today and took a photo note of my next appointment card. Upon taking the snapshot, it wanted to append to the 'buffered' previous 'crashed' process.  Two of the three images I had taken previously were still there.  Unfortunately, the missing one was the most significant, but the other two could provide some context if someone were to try to scam me, so better than nothing.  It was only upon taking a new photo, that there was any sign of remnants hanging around.

Thanks, there's several possibilities.  Crashed saving maybe not cached, crashed synching potentially cashed, potentially cleans up after sync, but crashed so potentially didn't cleanup after sync.  The few file apps I looked at seem to only give you more detail into what's already accessible, and visibility to external file systems.  Potentially I could give them more access and see more, but I hate doing that with third party app.  Would be much nicer if local utility for permission elevation to see the root system, like Linux sudo.

The operator error aspect of how this happened is somewhat embarrassing, but suffice it to say the app crashed while saving photo note of someone's info I needed.  In the process of departing words I failed to notice the crash.  I now am missing that info, and no way to make contact with this person.  A compounding factor was the stupid up sell to premium for business card scanning.  It's annoying in general, but no, not every small form factor piece of paper is a business card.  Even more frustrating when you can't correctly identify the thing you're up selling.  But I digress, does any know if the photos are cached locally and if so any way to retrieve. I'm fearful that even if cached iOS is so restrictive (soapbox for another day), that it will be difficult to retrieve.

Like a few others have mentioned I only have two layers.  A very generalized parent with a symbol prefix.  The symbol prefix helps give context to the child.  The children are moderately generalized. I use tags for general filtering then intitle, content type, and content keywords in note for specifics.  This allows for relatively few tags.  I'll likely still evolve over time as I only have 3k notes.

For instance: tag:#fitness intitle:shoulder rehab

FYI, I had this same issue because I was trying to pre-download it from a Linux OS.  If it doesn't recognize your OS it won't offer you the download.  Lame in my opinion. I don't understand why there can't just be a hyperlink to the file; everything is so 'walled garden' these days.  Later when I was at my Windows OS just going to the download page initiated the download without clicking anything additional.  Maybe some kind of security setting is blocking that for you.

Walled gardens.....  I could go off the deep end on that subject; but suffice it to say thanks Apple🤨, the grandfather of restricted access.

Somewhat along the same lines, in terms of unpredictability....  I experimented with  creating notes in iOS Notes to see if/how much better editor was than Evernote, then sent the notes to Evernote.  I decided I didn't like that workflow, so deleted the notes in iOS Note, deleted the Evernote notes and all was fine across all clients.  Some days later I opened iOS Evernote, the deleted notes were back and synched with all the other clients again.  Again a minor annoyance in comparison to the overall value I get out, but weird stuff does happen.