StefanW

I don't get it why so many people don't get it. It's a very simple calculation: If even half of all paying customers are leaving along with all of the non-paying (which BS is forcing by turning the free version into a demo anyway) and the subscription price for the remaining users (which might well be more than 50%, BS will know, we don't) double, they have lost nothing. No matter how loud the others are shouting. It's simply math and business. So I'd suggest to use the energy to look for alternative apps and workflows and leave silently. I do.

Does the Evernote add-in not show up at all in Outlook or does it just not work? I might be wrong but since they had replaced the old COM/VST add-in with the newer architecture (from the Microsoft add-in store) it only works with Microsoft mail adresses like outlook.com, hotmail.com.... If I select another account/Inbox (e.g. an IMAP account) the symbol from the Evernote add-in (and others like Todoist and Trello) won't even show up.

I think this task has gotten far more complicated in the last months, because Microsoft is on a strange path with Outlook. Most people are talking about the Windows desktop version (Win32) when they mention Outlook. Microsoft doesn't anymore; they are completely focussed on the browser client (outlook.com) or their "new Outlook", which is just a wrapped web app with many problems (e.g. security problems: you can't connect it to a company IMAP server without routing all mail content and the login credentials over Microsoft servers). Outlook (Win32) integrations and connections have mostly been done via APIs like COM/VST on Windows. The former version of the Evernote clipper did (so did the OneNote-importer from the classic Evernote desktop version on Windows, which is gone now), the Outlook-OneNote connection does. But lately a new form of Add-Ins has been introduced to Outlook, that is web based. The current Evernote Add-on in Outlook is using this new format (btw, that's why it doesn't seem to work with non Microsoft mail accounts anymore), OneNote sync still doesn't. Microsoft already confirmed, that the "new" Outlook (which will not replace the Win32 outlook in MS Office for a long time) will never support the COM/VST Add-ons or other direct communication with other Windows programs. So...if Evernote will sync with Outlook calendars, it's very likely that they will only support Microsoft mail accounts (like with Google) but not your companys Exchange calendar for example. I can imagine that the Evernote devs are waiting in which direction Microsoft will go with that whole Outlook mess before they even consider to make a move. I'd not expect Outlook support from Evernote for quite a while. (excuse my English, not my native language)

Wow! I have been OneNote MVP (kind of Microsoft approved Pro) for OneNote for a few years, wrote several books about OneNote and did a (now inactive) Blog about OneNote. So I think I know a bit or two about the software. Over the years I gave up explaining things about it in forums and mostly correcting wrong facts or misunderstandings. All the time I *never* came across anyone who got everything about OneNote right and was able to summarize it in a compact and accurate way. Assuming you trust my expertise: Everything Droolling explained ist absolutely correct. I just might add: The "complicated, cached version" of the downloaded data for offline editing is a large number of binary files, each one representing an object on a note page (paragraph, table cell, image...), so a page can be edited in parallel from different users/devices without sync conflicts as long as separate objects are edited. The sync mechanism (MSFSHTTP), also used by Sharepoint, recinstructs edited fragments on the server. That's why only OneDrive / OneDrive for business can be used for storage as Dropbox, Box etc. don't have that server side mechanisms. And of course all of this is very off-topic to this thread