Zawen

I think it's amazing how a pro-choice topic gets hijacked immediately by the pro-life brigade. To people actually looking for a way out of Evernote, don't let them dissuade you. Their supposed advice is purely meant to keep you from trying. Whether they are on Evernote payroll or so invested in the program that work upside down if that's what the UI requested, doesn't matter, they want to stay no matter what and they need to justify that. The straw that broke this camel's back, is that it now takes ages just to simply tag a (limited) bunch of notes, which is not only a disgrace to the programmers who thought this was somehow acceptable, but also makes the new Evernote completely useless for me. Devonthink is not perfect (or everyone would have switched by now), but it is so much better than the new Evernote which is an indisputably bad piece of software. I was perfectly happy with Evernote Legacy, and Devonthink comes closest to that experience. It's pointless to engage in any discussion with the likes of pinkelephant. I'll only reply to questions and constructive comments from now on, but as an example, just to show how manipulative some of these arguments are: There used to be a great solution: Evernote Legacy, but then they broke it. Devonthink isn't a temporary fix, it works like a charm. It's creators are much less monetisation driven than Evernote, and have been listening to and supporting their user base for years now. Why would Mac users be bothered that Devonthink is Mac only? Why would we want a server in the cloud? Devonthink syncs and backs up (through the cloud), what more would one need? This topic is obviously for people in the Apple universe. If you're not, then why would you bother reading about Devonthink? A database is what you define it to be, it's not a "notebook or stack". You can use a single database for everything, use separate ones for personal and professional use, use one database per notebook, whatever you want. You can also sync as many databases as you want with the mobile app. I did integrate with Apple Script and it's great. The flexibility is endless. It took me an hour to get a hang of the syntax (never used it before), but now I can just have Devonthink do anything the way I want it to. As I said, learning curve is nothing to be scared of. This is actually correct. I'm not starting a fan club, I'm notifying other Evernote users that switching will become harder. If Evernote would produce (or even just maintain) decent software, none of us would even consider switching. It's not for windows users, for the others it's pretty damn close to what we had in Evernote a couple of years ago. If you liked that more than you like the current Evernote, just give Devonthink a try. It's free, will cost you only an evening, and backing up all your Evernote data in a Devonthink database might actually be a good idea before Evernote goes completely locked box on their users.

I asked you very nicely to stay out of this. For anyone still reading this guy’s posts, don’t believe him: 1. it is completely straightforward to put your data in the cloud (at a provider of your choice) and it syncs perfectly. 2. if you’re still on Windows, that’s probably the cause of many of your problems. Switch to Mac if you want to enjoy life again. 3. the learning curve for DT is quite easy really, nothing to be feared. Happy to help anyone get through initial setup.

In case my point didn’t come across clearly: 1. Devonthink is the alternative you’ve been looking for. I’ve tested a dozen, and they all fall short except for DT. 2. Switching now is easy (done within Devonthink), switching once Legacy will be gone will be hellish (at 100 notes per batch taking half a day).

Dear all, Like so many of you, my frustration with the deterioration of Evernote has been steadily building these last couple of years. Now that Evernote Legacy has become practically unusable, I tried my best to live with the new Evernote, but it just doesn't work (both working with Evernote and the Evernote app itself). So, in a courageous moment, I decided to migrate to Devonthink. It took an evening to set it up jùst right (more or less like the Evernote we loved 5 years ago but with extra features!), but now it works like a charm and the delight of being able to work without being frustrated every 30 seconds has really made my life noticeably more fun. The reason I'm writing this now is to alert anyone thinking about switching about a ticking timer. Migrating Evernote notes to Devonthink right now is lightning fast and super easy (in Devonthink, select the notebooks you want to import, and it does so within seconds including tags, metadata and everything else). However, Devonthink can only import from Evernote Legacy! As of now, while Legacy is no longer usable as a tool, it still runs and will allow Devonthink to import. Once Legacy is removed or doesn't start up anymore, notes will be locked into Evernote by all practical definitions. As such, if you are in doubt, just try it, install the free Devonthink trial and import everything, even if just to have free access to it once Legacy is gone. Feel free to DM me for practical advise about switching, happy to help wherever I can. Best, Zawen @_pinkelephant: please stay out of this, it doesn't concern you.

THIS! Thank you thank you thank you osmanyildirim!! You saved us from having to switch to the dreadful new Evernote!

I would have if it would have been in any way useful. For the interested: "An error has occured" I did, in my previous post You're probably right, it's just another bug that's entered the same printing flow. Not sure where this suddenly comes from. Is this really necessary? Feels like we're two posts away from Godwin's law. Nevertheless, I assume you refer to "circular reasoning"? How exactly do your 4 steps constitute a circular reasoning? And how would this be relevant to this thread? Did you pick up along the way that these are all features that once worked, and are part of many people's workstreams? That this piece of software is actually devolving, and that such incompetence is unacceptable for paying software? That for a database tool, being able to get things in and out is actually a pretty core function? That it's not correct that users need to come up with more and more elaborate workarounds to do the things that they at one time (when they took the premium subscription) could actually just do? But honestly, guys, never mind. It's admirable that you try to help other users. You shouldn't be responsible though for solving bugs, that's what we're paying the company for.

Doesn't work here. I tried a couple of different scenarios: With single page notes, Evernote prints one and then gives an error message With multi-page notes, it shows the correct number of print dialogs, but only gives one single file in the end This program has gotten so bad, it's depressing... (the scaling of scanned documents is also completely messed up now I just noticed. Evernote will scale a small receipt to match page width, stretching it over 4 pages in pdf... I'm just about done with this thing to be honest)

I have a macbook pro running Catalina. Evernote 7.14 (458265 App Store). I'm doing "cmd + P" > "PDF" dropdown menu > "Save as PDF" In the past this produced X number of pdf files for X number of notes. Now just the one.

This does not work anymore. It used to work, like so many other features, but now it doesn't. If I select multiple notes => print => Save as PDF, I get one file called untitled.pdf with one note in it. The others have never been created or overwritten, but are not there.