Alxa

I just saw, that even EN 10 for Android still shows this little green flags on notes, that are not yet synced from device to the cloud. This is what we knew from Evernote Legacy as well. Bringing this back to the desktop would give me much peace of mind of having my work with me after leaving the desk as I could easily see, what is synced or not. 

Hi I could not find a thread with this topic - maybe because of my limited English...if so then sorry.

I wonder if anyone else would also find it useful, if Evernote could add some kind of additional "free editing" mode to the editor. That means you could arrange your content (pictures, text, tables, annotations, handwriting) freely throughout the note without beeing restricted to each item on a single line being only left, right or in the centre. You could compare this "free editing" idea to the standard approach of editing in OneNote.

I definitely like the actual clean way of editing notes, this should always stay Evernote standard for me.

But when it comes to brain storming, arranging ideas or the need to freely add some handwriting over the note content we are very limited. This is where I would love to have the opportunity to switch to a "free editing" mode - only when needed. 

I would like to see some single colored backgrounds for the home view and an option to toggle background image off to calm background and better focus. Manually adding black oder white images does not deliver a solution when using automatic dark/bright mode.

Definitely +1 from me. Having only one pinned note does not give me an advantage over regular shortcuts. 

2 hours ago, matej1990 said:

Install this EN v10 (1107959) version and then you will get an update to the latest version (v10.4) via Google Play. At least this is how I got to version 10.4.

Thanks for the suggestion which I just tried. Unfortunately Google Play does not update this installation on my device afterwards. Since it stays V10.0 - therefore not usable - I had to switch back to 8.13.3. Hopefully 10.X will come to all users eventually soon.

On 2/4/2018 at 8:20 PM, DTLow said:

 One nice feature of shared notebooks is uploads are charged to the allowance of the notebook owner (your premium account); you're sharing your upload limit with the family

I want to add that unfortunately this nice feature does not apply on single notes in regard of note size. That means I have several notes my family members cannot add content to because of their note size limit of 25 MB per note - although the note itself is located in my (premium plan) shared notebook and not reaching 200 MB limit. For me this is not logical but FAQ say that this is intentional. That is the reason I would pretty appreciate a family plan.

I got a short hands on the EN 10.4 on an Android of a friend who was lucky enough to be in the pool of the first 5% who got EN10. Version 10.4 looks quiet promising! 🙂 So please Evernote, since Evernote Android is already on 10.4: When will all Android 10+ users get the update? Thank you

Maybe someone could share the apk for manual installation. Would much appreciate that. I have several Android 10 devices but none got EN 10. Even 10.4 ist not being rolled out although it looks promising (had a short touch on it with a (free plan!) user who got it).

Same here, still no roll out of EN10 on all of my Android 10 devices since decembre 2020. Still on EN 8.13.3. Announcing without rolling out for weeks somehow is a show stopper.

This issue could result from power saving settings for the app in the android settings. Some androids cut off power consumption of apps when screen goes dark after a while as a standard mode. If you disable power optimization for Evernote app may be the microphone stays on while screen going dark.

In this forum there were also complaints about this overriding of the general setting in EN8 (legacy). I assume EN therefore removed this from EN10. Maybe we get a setting within the app in future versions. That would be perfectly fine. As a workaround you could use third party apps to easily toggle screen always on via a widget. An open source example doing exactly this and running on my Android 10 devices: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.muellerma.coffee/

I would assume, this issue could come from the new EN10 version not being that streamlined as the legacy app before (EN8.13.3). The rollout of EN10 also seems stalled because of some issues. Therefore you could merely wait for EN to fix the problems our you can immediately manually go back to EN 8.13.3 via a manual apk install which happily is possible on Android. But remember to afterwards stop automatic updates for some time. EN 8.13.3 ist still working as before with ups and downs 😉 but it works...even in parallel with new EN10 web and windows.

1 minute ago, HeBoIz said:

Just to make it sure: Evernote is in my eyes primarily a noting taking app, not a spell checking app...

I’do agree that it is helpful to have a fully working spell checking routine. But programming a completely new version from scratch and ground in a new environment every „basic“ feature is starting as additional feature to add, when time has come. And even if spell checking is a common feature implementing this - without to much additional bad effects for memory consumption or battery drain - may be quite a challenge...

But may be you may give us and EN light and vision how to do this en passent?

As some already suggested, just disabling it completely until it is figured out might be a fast way to gain time for development without interrupting the user experience that much. I mean for multi language users it is pretty unusable because of that.

I can confirm that. After running for a while standby memory and cpu consumption sometimes even rises to an unreasonable level. I already experienced cpu load by 25% with EN being in the tray...not transfering any data or something... This can become especially a problem if you standby or hybernate the windows pc after rewaking and using it for some days without shut down EN entirely in between.

2 hours ago, Austin G said:

I apologize for the delays folks. this is now scheduled for the 10.7 release. Will continue to post updates as I receive them. 

@Austin GYou cannot be serious, it is not time for april fools. You are then almost on EN 11 but not have even resolved such a basic issue for a NOTE TAKING app. This is absolutely ridiculous. Waiting another 2-3 months for that is no option. Instead of playing with shiny GUI adjustment I would prefer to see some more substantial evolving...it is so sad what you are doing to the product and the brand! 😞

7 minutes ago, BuzzKill said:

I got pretty much the same response.  I always assumed that once a new version for any app was put in the Store it was available for everyone. After I received that response I was curious why it wasn't the case.  So I did some digging.  Apparently Google has a feature that allows developers to do staged roll-outs based on percentages.  For example, they setup the rollout for 5%.  After 5% of their current user base gets the update then the new version is no longer available.  That percentage can then be adjusted over time to allow more people to get the new version.  So to say the rollout stopped is not entirely accurate.   It's still happening. But most likely they are trying to address bugs in that initial group before increasing the percentage.  It would be nice if they clearly communicated this.  It would have alleviated some of my frustrations. 

Definitely this is what is going on. But this also means, that officially celebrating EN10 for Android on the homepage of EN and in play store is a slap on the face of all long term users knowing that it is all for publicity only. No substantial foundation behind all this shining screenshots.

Unfortunately they do not and did not maintain the old clients. With EN legacy windows you cannot see status of public link shared notes if you did the public sharing on another client or the web. On Android the last update is 6 months ago... lots of bugs there never been resolved (empty notes, taken photos not attached, photos in wrong order and so on). They leave as with these unmaintained app (meanwhile officially unmaintained as they call all non EN10-apps "legacy")...but deliver no adequate replacement.

I raised a ticket with support because of the stopped roll out. This is the answer:

"Hi XXXXXX,

Thank you for contacting Evernote Customer Support.

I understand that you want to install the latest version of Evernote on your Android devices.

I'm sorry to hear that the roll out hasn't reached you. We are still in the process of expanding the roll out over the course of several weeks. This version is new, and we want this version to have less bugs as much as possible, which can affect scale of availability of the new version.

I am unable to confirm the rumor, but you can rest assured that this new update will be made available to a wider userbase soon. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

In the meantime, if you have other concerns or inquiries, please let me know.

Regards,

XXXX"
Customer Support Representative

It think the bold part implicitly confirms that the roll out has been stopped (the "rumor") because of all the unsolved bugs. 😉

As they do not get the basic work done on all platforms (which seems to be the necessary foundation for evolving) in a reasonable amount of time I'm not too excited about the future of EN in 2021 😞

16 minutes ago, DTLow said:

This is incorrect - data can be backed up with Evernote   
I'm using the Legacy product and run backups using the Evernote export feature (daily incremental and weekly full)   
The Version10 product also supports an export feature
- currently restricted to .enex format, with .html format pending
- currently restricted to per notebook, or 50 note limit; we expect/hope limit removal

Yes, I only related to EN10. EN10 has a limited export feature, but doing export per notebook is no reasonable work flow. Reality shows that backups are only made, when they are easy and fast to do. Fortunately EN legacy still provides this - even full backups with separated notebook-enex files if you use the worklow I described. We should always keep in mind that legacy will sometime drop and seeing all the issues with basic functionality and only concentrating on shiny features, I can hardly imagine backing up/exporting will be on their top priorities 😞

18 hours ago, EP2008 said:

Respectfully, that's a workaround, not a built-in feature in the current version of Evernote. 

 

Sure it is a workaround, but there actually is no way of doing a backup without using a workaround - as your solution is as well. Sadly EN has nothing to offer in terms of local backup with EN10. And if they do not add such functionality their claimed "your data is yours" and "you can leave at any time" will too become "legacy" when EN legacy is dropped. Not (yet?!) being locked in as with every other competing note app for me actually is the only reason to stick with EN these days....

I explained the method here:

On 12/28/2020 at 9:42 PM, Alxa said:

With EN 10 you have no chance to check, if any information is synced or not. "All changes saved" definitely does not correspond to syncing in any way. This was proved within this forum and imho does only mean the changes have been written to a cache (hopefully). Only way to check is to open web interface.

I would strongly suggest doing regular full backups with Evernote Legacy until they implement a backup/export option in EN 10.

For a full backup in Evernote Legacy reinstall it from Evernote support page and make sure it has completed a full sync. Legacy and EN 10 can be installed side by side on your machine. Having synced you log off from your account, then seeing the log-in screen you press CTRL+SHIFT+E, select your account and voilà, EN Legacy will do a full export creating a folder on your desktop with an ENEX-file per notebook. That's how I do it on a regular basis since EN once lost several precious media files from my journals (yes, dead hardlinks to my attachments on their server end) and the support never could bring it back nor could explain how missing files could occur on professional cloud service. Enjoy peace of mind with your backups 🙂

17 minutes ago, MB11 said:

I used this method of backup this morning but I don't see an ENEX-file per notebook. I only see a handful on ENEX files, not one for each notebook. Sorry for my ignorance but any ideas what I am doing wrong? Thanks very much for any help.

I checked this with my exports and it works as explained by me. With EN legacy doing the explained method I get one folder on my desktop that is named  "Evernote_username_date" and within this folder there are ENEX files, each for every notebook within my account. If you do not see all notebooks represented by enex-files maybe your legacy client is not fully synced...just an idea.

1 hour ago, Alxa said:

It is not possible, since EN has not implemented it for months now. You can only revert to legacy version. I will try if manually deleting the ancient dictionary files shipped with EN 10 will get rid of spell checker. I will post later on.

I tried deleting the "dictionary" folder in EN10 installation folder. Merciless EN10 reloads the files and re-creates the folder on startup. So this seems no way to circumvent this. 😞 

Maybe someone on this forum is capable to do a deeper technical approach on this... as an international customer I would be thankful. Evernote sadly is ignoring their users outside the US  since EN10 (spell checking, defocusing Android App and so on).

5 minutes ago, lluis-s-v said:

I am sorry but this problem has not been fixed. How can I switch off word spelling check? It is so annoying having word highlighted just because the spelling check doesn't like some words.

It is not possible, since EN has not implemented it for months now. You can only revert to legacy version. I will try if manually deleting the ancient dictionary files shipped with EN 10 will get rid of spell checker. I will post later on.

20 minutes ago, MB11 said:

Thank you SO MUCH! I can't believe I've used Evernote for so long yet was unaware of this way to backup. 

Is it a good idea to keep the completed backup folder in Google Drive or One Drive, or do you suggest an alternate location? I have one on my laptop but would like extra protection. 

Thank you again!

Glad I could help. I am looking forward to EN 10 getting real backup options as well.

Having a regular backup on cloud storage is better than nothing and very convenient I would definitely recommend this as step 1. But for good data security you should always have at least one copy that is locally separated from your other devices in case of disaster or theft to/in your home. So please consider to have a copy physically by yourself which is not connected to the internet. So in case of identity theft or hacking your accounts your data cannot be compromised. This way you would have:
1. Evernote Account online and local copys held by your EN client(s)
2. a regular full backup (potentially some time versioning would be good) on cloud storage you do manually
3. at least one full backup on an offline medium (maybe 2 external hard drives you swap regularly and store in another building after copying the export to it) you do manually.

That's the scenario for my data backup. 

A family plan would make Evernote more acceptable within my family. Within basic, my family members are always annoyed by notifications for upgrading. Not to mention regular e-mails on upgrading by Evernote and limited access with 60 MB upload. This divides Evernote from the user experience of other free plans e.g. with Microsoft or Google and leads to rejection with my family members to use Evernote together. I would love to get a family plan and share all functionality throughout the family members and being able to "save" parents, sister or my own children from popping advertising. Evernote would be a much greater tool than Google Keep or OneNote that way, what otherwise is preferred until now....

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