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In Evernote Windows, when user selects multiple notes via note list, why aren't those app functions top first level menu greyed out? The second level sub-menu is greyed out but the first level menu isn't. If the subcommands don't work, then everything to the first level menu should be greyed out e.g. "Format" and others. Please test all.

Why not in next Evernote Windows & other platforms user will be able to CTRL + Spacebar to simplify formatting as well as other keyboard shortcuts to remove formatting without clicking in the notes itself? Will users be able to do so in the note list. If it is a single note, then user can simplify formatting and go into note to CTRL + Z to undo. If user select multiple notes, then there will be a pop up message to ask user for authorisation before proceeding.

Hi what do you think of: Why don't Evernote web after the note have moved to another notebook Z (left notes list panel), why don't the website auto refresh to show next note in the list of notebook X?

Hi, I hope you and your family are safe from Coronavirus. God Bless - Amen. Unfortunately, I'm using Win 10 on HDD & 8 GB ram. I have combed the forum and collated the potential solutions in this thread. I like to kindly seek your help to add your solution that isn't listed below so as to help me and other people in the future. Thank you. Regards, Jianfa Ben Tsai Backup database, seek official customer support help before DIY remove all attachments e.g. PDF, photos & videos from the note and save to cloud drive instead. Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (year 2017) introduced some malware prevention software called "Control flow guard" (CFG) . Once it's turned off, Evernote gets fast again! Instruction to turn this off: https://www.tenforums.com/performance-maintenance/96792-fall-creators-update-poor-performance-lagginess-fix.html or https://stackoverflow.com/a/46913696/257470 (from second image) or https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/110116-en-extremely-slow-after-win-10-fall-creators-update-solved/ Turned off automatic Sync Set automatically save edited note to 300 seconds Turn off Context Use offline Downgraded PC's BIOS Upgrade to latest version or revert back to version 4 or version 5 Upgraded Win 10 from Home to Pro Optimized Database under the Help menu (press Help while holding the Ctrl-key) Fix Notebookless Notes Fix Lost Resources Recreate Full Text Search Index Recreate Attributes Index basically most of the commands on the secret Help menu Removed the Web Clipper extension from Chrome Using On Demand Sync may improve performance. Go to Tools - Options - Synchronization and check Enable on demand sync. Delete the shortcut to Web Clipper from C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup Disabled "Show Clipping Notifications" Disabled Hardware Acceleration Turn off "Ads" and "Status bar" Go to Tools / Options / Search, and set the "Search as you type delay" to 0 seconds. You'll need to press the Enter key to initiate a saerch, but it might take some lag out of the process. Do not use "EN" as a note-taking program. Type text into a word processor and, if you want copies in Evernote, copy/paste the notes from the word processor into Evernote. Use the web version for everything. The web version uses entirely different software and has none of the hangups. The downside of doing this is that you lose the additional functionality of the desktop version, including the ability to use the desktop version when you have no internet connection (you will need to use workarounds 1 and 2 when using the desktop program offline - the hangups are caused by continuous database computations in the Evernote database on your PC, which starts whenever you type in text or do a search.) Evernote is functional as a repository, not as a data entry program and not at all as a word processor. I don't know if the Apple version is as plagued with these programs as the Windows version. Evernote was originally an Apple-only program. It's hard to believe it could have taken off if it also had the hangup problems. Logged into Windows from a Test account instead of my main account - this fixed it, proving that the issue must be a program or background process that's only running in the main account Back in the main account, disabled everything in Task manager's Start-up tab - this fixed it, so then a process of elimination was required to isolate the program causing it (Sticky Password) Concerning the fonts: You can choose which fonts are in use on your PC, and uninstall all the others. If you want to keep them "just in case" you can save the files containing the font information in another folder. Those in use will be found in all applications that allow for it. There is an attachments folder. Other users solved their issue by deleting the content: C:\Users\{username}\Evernote\Databases\Attachments , or wherever you have your EN installed. Try removing the complete installation with Revo Uninstaller (it reaches the files other uninstallers don't usually touch). Then download and re-install the app from Evernote.com and log in with your normal user details so that the database and search indexes can be rebuilt from the server. If Evernote has just updated to a newer version, and your are launching it form a pinned icon on the Window 7/10 taskbar, try un-pinning the icon, and launching Evernote from the Start menu. I have seen cases where Evernote would try to launch a defunct old version after an upgrade if an old taskbar shortcut is clicked. Turn off any less used Windows or other processes. My personal view is that things like the Windows index feature don't do much other than consume resources. An SSD is a hardware solution to the problem, but it does work well in my experience (45 k notes, 22.5 GB data base and no response issues). Simply press the Windows key + R keyboard shortcut to open the Run box, type dfrgui and press Enter. When the Disk Defragmenter window is shown, look for the Media type column and you can find out which drive is solid state drive (SSD), and which one is hard disk drive (HDD). How to replace your old laptop Hard Disk Drive to Solid State Drive >> Call the manufacturer helpline, give them you laptop model number and service tag, ask them the max GB SSD and the type of SSD that your laptop can take, follow instructions here >> https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/ssd-upgrade-tutorial. I haven't tested it, but will soon. My official recommendation is to bring your old laptop to a trusted computer shop (google review on shop reputation) to pay them a small fee to do it for you. If you can't afford an SSD Hard drive just go buy one of the SanDisk Micro Flash Memory Card (see link below) or something similar to this. On most laptop you can use these Memory stick card and if you have a desktop you can find cheap adapter that can fit on your desktop PC. The Memory size of these card go from 16Gb to 64Gb and you can find some at 128Gb (Depending on the size of you .exb file). The important point here is to select one that speed up at least 45MB/s read/write or more with no Frustration. Then follow the same process I mentioned on my previous post by moving your .exb on the Memory Flash Card. I have tested it on my 2 laptops and Evernote works like a charm 🙂 SanDisk Link: http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Extreme-Frustration-Free-Packaging--SDSDX-032G-AFFP/dp/B007M54E1M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1401912037&sr=8-1&keywords=sandisk http://www.amazon.com/Sandisk-MicroMate-Memory-Reader-SDDR-113/dp/B000YBH4YU/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1401916980&sr=1-1&keywords=sandisk+adapter+usb Get CCleaner from Piriform, it's a FREE registry, check \ fix. You can use any registry program you want provided it can fix the problems it finds. I have seen cases where the following can affect the software behavior: Large and/or corrupt attachments Large (>10K words) Notes Large account sizes (> 30K Notes) Special/unusually characters in the Note *to run Evernote in debug mode, type: evernote.exe/debugmenu in the Run Dialog in Windows --------- The process to fix the freezing can be summarized as follows: Use windows firewall to block evernote.exe whenever you're interacting with the evernote windows client Disable the windows firewall rule when your done interacting so the client can sync. The details on the process: First create a windows firewall rule Create a windows firewall rule: Windows Firewall/Advanced Settings/Outbound Rules/New Rule. Type of rule = Program Program path = the path to your evernote.exe file (such as C:\Users\User1\AppData\Local\Apps\Evernote\Evernote\Evernote.exe) Then choose "Block the connection." When does this rule apply? Check all three options. Then for the name, make sure to name it "Block Evernote." This gives you a firewall rule which can be turned on and off by batch files Next create a file named "Block Evernote.bat" which looks like this: netsh advfirewall firewall set rule name="Block Evernote" new enable=yes timeout 7200 netsh advfirewall firewall set rule name="Block Evernote" new enable=no This batch file will enable the blocking, then wait for 2 hrs (7200 seconds), then disable the blocking. It will leave a command window open during the countdown, which will remind you that the blocking is enabled, and allow you to press any key while in that window to skip the countdown and disable the blocking (such as when you're done working in the client) When running the batch file, you don't want to click itself, but rather you want to create a shortcut which runs with administrative privileges, and use that to activate the batch file. Thus next you create a shortcut to this batch file (in order to provide administrator privileges). Once the shortcut is created, you need to right-click the shortcut, go to Properties, click Advanced, and Run as Administrator checkbox (if you skip this step it won't work, because netsh needs admin privileges). Now double-click this shortcut to stop the window's client from talking to the servers, and it will magically make the windows client usable again (at least it did for me). Pressing any key inside the command window which opens will again allow the client to connect to the servers and synchronize If you forget to press a key, the command window will count down and re-enable the client's communication after the 7200 seconds (or whatever number you choose for that value). One final optional step I used to make activating blocking a little more convenient was to pin the shortcut to the taskbar. This can be done as follows: Navigate to your shortcut you created, hold the shift key on your keyboard while right-clicking the shortcut, and select "Copy as Path". (This option will only show up while shift-right-clicking.) This copies the path of the shortcut to the clipboard. Go to the start menu, start typing "cmd" and when "Command Prompt" comes up, click it to open a command prompt window. That command prompt window should show up on you screen, with an icon on your task bar While the command window is still open, right-click the command prompt icon on the taskbar and select "Pin to Taskbar." Close the command prompt When the command prompt is closed, shift-right-click the command prompt icon on the taskbar and select "Properties" In the properties dialog box, on the "Shortcut" tab, in the "Target" field, type "explorer.exe" and then paste the contents of the clipboard Thus the target box should look something like: explorer.exe "C:\Users\User1\Desktop\Block Evernote.bat - Shortcut.lnk" Hit "OK" to close the dialog box Now every time you want to activate the blocking so you can use the windows client, you need only click that command window icon on the taskbar, and then the "Yes" button which pops up when windows asks you if this program can make changes to your computer. (Note: This process is a little annoying because each time you click the shortcut on the taskbar you need to still click the "Yes" button on the UAC prompt which comes up next. For more tech savy users, you could eliminate this step by creating a task in task scheduler which runs with highest privileges and runs your batch file (but has no trigger). Then in the "Target" field in your taskbar shortcut you put something like C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe /run /tn "Block Evernote" where "Block Evernote" is the name of the task scheduler task which runs the batch file. This eliminates the UAC prompt and starts the blocking as soon as you click the shortcut on the taskbar. This also eliminates the need for the shortcut to the batch file with admin privileges; you only need the original batch file.) This is a lot of messing around, but totally worth it to me to be able to use the client again. Hope this is useful for someone else. Cheers. --------- Sign all the way out of EN, File - Sign out yourusername. Then start EN and select Evernote - Options in the upper left corner. Change the data base location to what you want there. Once signed in EN will build the data base at that location from the server, so give it time depending upon how many notes you have. Again, if you have any local notebooks, export them so they can be imported after the download is complete. -------- run a chkdsk /f on your PC. It will take time, but will ensure that the issue isn't hardware.

you can upgrade your laptop's Hard Drive to Solid State Drive simply here: https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/ssd-upgrade-tutorial I haven't test it out myself or you can bring to your nearby trusted computer shop (do a research on the reputation online first)

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oh its not the same message as it is personalised to each app type e.g. "For this Evernote discussion forum" Furthermore, each app type have a text colour picker? I wish you and your family safe from Coronavirus. God bless your heart. Amen.

For this Evernote discussion forum It doesn't make sense for the first touchpoint of the colour picker to be black since the typed text is black. Why not change the default colour picker for the text colour picker to red with the first mouse click. The next mouse click will open the palette for other colours? Save time, Save energy, convert opportunity cost into higher value money generating tasks, 1 second to 30 second of time per millions of touchpoints per day over the lifespan of Evernote and other apps globally. Hypothetically speaking.

For Evernote Web Client It doesn't make sense for the first touchpoint of the colour picker to be black since the typed text is black. Why not change the default colour picker for the text colour picker to red with the first mouse click. The next mouse click will open the palette for other colours? Save time, Save energy, convert opportunity cost into higher value money generating tasks, 1 second to 30 second of time per millions of touchpoints per day over the lifespan of Evernote and other apps globally. Hypothetically speaking.

found it ! thanks!

Thanks. I agree the keyboard shortcut is great.

The all notes option is cluttered in the left panel. I reckon the keyboard shortcut have to do for now. I thought a mouse click on an all notes button on the shortcut top toolbar would be faster

Why not?

Hi, please feedback to management. Why don't Grammarly & Evernote collaborate with each other for mutual profits? Regards, Jianfa Ben Tsai

Why not upgrade future version to double as password manager by increasing encryption n read only note so don’t accidentally delete password on phone that can’t undo when copy paste.

Evernote app > recent notebooks function need more than 3 notebooks in list. Most people have more than 3 notebooks & few users scrolled after the 3 recent notebooks. Why not make move notebook screen in infinite scroll of all recent notebooks accessed with the scope list of all notebooks. If user wants to quick access then use magnifying glass search function which is much quicker? Will you scroll through 50 notebooks alphabetically or use search?

Useful function for Evernote is take a photo with inbuilt camera and have the function to annotate taken photo instantly

Hi mates, I hope u r well. Please kindly let me know what do u think of this: Organise notes by title alphabetically - New Function -> user type alphabets that is the beginning of note to jump selection to that note (similar to searching for files in Finder Folder app) Currently typing alphabets does nothing What do u think? Regards, Jianfa Ben Tsai