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On 7/8/2023 at 8:04 PM, Nick L. said:

We're confident this fix will be available in the next update, 10.52 available in a few weeks. 

A few weeks? How is this more than a few days work? What else do you have to do that is more important than this? Add a few more shines to the Splice UI?  

Ah OK - duh! I was thinking Rich Text something-or-other. Thanks.

Ah yes, of course! I was thinking about whether there was a technical barrier, but it is just about saving them electricity. That sucks! They should be careful; Evernote is still the best game in town, but Nimbus and Notion are close: it would only take a couple of feature additions for me to switch completely.

Do  you know the reason for the switch to RTE? Will it enable new features? In particular, will Markdown support be better? The main two features EN is missing, from my point of view, are Latex-type support and sortable tables (although a graph view would be cool, as would Nebo-style diagrams). 

Thank you for the quick reply. Happy to mark this as 'solution', although explanation would be a better word. I realize the following is not your responsibility, but it seems the place to write it.

1. It would have been nice if Evernote, in addition to the tedious marketing emails they regularly send, had sent an email warning everyone to expect this. But perhaps I missed it.
2. Could this not happen in the background and not mess up using the app? The process could go on for years if I only open notes every so often!

Every time I open a note in the web client, the note page remains blank for a long time, and says "Saving..." in the bottom right hand corner; eventually the note loads. This delay is too long and this behaviour is new. Anyone else experiencing this?

21 hours ago, PinkElephant said:

It says a lot that basically there are only 3 web browsers left. Sure, there are more "browsers" - but only 3 "engines" that drive browsers. These are Chrome(ium) from Google, WebKit from Apple and the engine that drives FireFox. 2 of the 3 have no restrictions to their development budgets, and if you look at Firefox, you see that they are kept alive by contributions from the other 2 (maybe to avoid antitrust action by authorities).

The web sites build today by CMS systems like WordPress are highly complex, comprising many building blocks filled by different players, not only the website owner. Advertising blocs are auctioned and filled in milliseconds, newsfeeds provide live input, trackers try to follow the user over all sites to which he is surfing, based on tiny embedded pictures or "Like" buttons etc.

Printing means condensing all that stuff into a relict of old, a physical paper page (or its electronic equivalent).

To expect that a company like EN can mimic these browser powerhouses in developing their own solution is a bit - off. Just sayin'

It is not "a bit off". This is their job! "Evernote's latest valuation is reported to be $1.7 b."

Everyone else can do this!! Nimbus Note can do it, Notion can do it. A working 'export to pdf' would be enough. Stop making excuses.

8 hours ago, gazumped said:

I use a ton of other apps besides Evernote because they do a job that Evernote does not,  or because they do it better.  Image editors, email clients, mind maps, databases, web browsers,  search engines,  word processors... 

Evernote is a place where you can file and find things again efficiently,  and paperlessly - and they've branched out (a little) into organising those things into priorities.  They have never claimed to offer ways to generate more and prettier paperwork,  just like they never offered mind maps or any of the other services I add-in to their core database feature.

Absolutely not what I said.  Please don't misquote.  The point was that there's lots of rough edges to resolve;  AFAIK the only thing that can't be worked around yet is a continuing speed issue - and not everyone suffers from that.  They're working through things,  but there's lots left to do. 

Speed is not the only remaining issue: printing does not work, even basically. Only some fraction of a note is printed, and the top and bottom of this fraction have lines of text cut off vertically. It would seem EN is trying to print a note as an image, which, if true, would be mind-bogglingly incompetent.

Do not set up red herrings: no one is expecting "prettier" paperwork; just a basic print functionality. This is not rocket science: every piece of software on the planet can print except EN. It is like car not having glass in its windows: not its fundamental function, but pretty damned essential. If EN wants beta testers, they should either pay them or make the software free. Or do you want to pay for my account?

I hope you are being paid for defending the indefensible. If not, you should probably be asking yourself why you are so emotionally invested in EN that you are working for them for free as their shill. 

21 hours ago, gazumped said:

? You're responding to a months-old comment with no details of your own issue.  If you want to print a web page,  use a browser.  If you want to capture a copy and print it,  use a screenshot.  If you want to save the content as a searchable note - be prepared to compromise on the print quality.  Just sayin'

You have not read what I said correctly. I am responding to a post that excuses EN for their total failure to have a working note-printing functionality on any platform, and this for more than a year and despite thousands of complaints; the excuse being that notes are like web pages and it is very hard to print web pages. This latter point is untrue, and because the poster must know this, it is also a lie. (Presumably EN pays people to post propaganda like this; if not, then it is a sad commentary on the ability of people to identify emotionally with institutions that do not care a jot for them.) 

My issue is the same as everybody else on this thread (after all, it is the subject of the thread), and has been detailed to EN thousands of times. I was not posting a support ticket.

On 7/31/2021 at 12:04 PM, agsteele said:

The sync time is a function of Google Calendar.  Evernote is just taking whatever the Calendar delivers.  Others who have this issue have been on the new Personal level and not realised that only one Calendar is supported. They had to ensure they put the events in the calendar that was connected to their Evernote account rather than one of the additional calendars they had in the Google account.  I hope that might solve your problem.  Otherwise, a support ticket seems like the way forward.

This seems to be wrong. Only one calendar account is allowed in Personal, but the interface allows the selection of multiple calendars withing that account. Perhaps this is just a question of terminology, but my terminology appears to be consistent with both EN's and Google's. 

On 5/3/2021 at 8:47 AM, PinkElephant said:

Sure it needs improvement.

Ever tried to print a web site ? Not that easy, because it knows no page breaks.

Same with EN, which uses the same descriptive HTML code as web sites. This makes it harder to print neatly . Basic text editors use only plain text, and the usual suspects like Word let you first setup the page properties (most often by a preset template), which is then filled with content. EN only knows an infinite page by default.

But sure, printing is a key function, so it should work, even if it takes some coding.

Really! Every web browser prints web sites intelligently without missing off text.