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Evernote does not have a calendar. 

The calendar view is simply a carbon copy of your Google calendar account and cannot be edited through Evernote, it is purely read only. 

The extent of interaction is Evernote faciltating a calendar token heading in a new note based on the calendar information. 

Do they have to be seperate notes? 

I've set up a single note and saved it to the Home screen as the Pinned note. Then just use "Shift Alt D" or "Ctrl Alt D" to input date or time as appropriate. 

This allows you to have tasks showing on the note in the home screen. I can then copy and past out of this note for anything I want to keep or work on later. 

Have you considered Developer One's "Day One" journal application. 

Mac and iOS only, but it may be a more appropriate tool for your specific use case. 

On 5/1/2022 at 11:22 PM, AndrewDG said:

Is anyone aware of a good alternative that works on Windows PC as well as iOS devices? This has been one of the strengths of Evernote. However, the way Evernote has performed since the big changes has left me very frustrated...

The closest alternative which is cross platform Windows and iOS is Nimbus Notes. Notably, they've just recently introduced a task feature into the programme in the same vein as Evernote, although implementation is somewhat different and at present not as intuitive / flexible. 

I dabble with NImbus, but keep reverting back to Evernote. Somehow it just seems that bit more polished and intuitive. Since Evernote V10 had a notable speed increase a few iterations back, I just haven't had any stumbling blocks to cause me to move elsewhere. Notably Nimbus iOS app is not as quick when you have several thousand notes at play. ( I imported a sizable batch of my Evernote docs last year). 

I'd be very interested to know the current position with Evernote and how the ratio of paid suscribers / free accounts has changed over the past year since V10 was introduced. Evernote might be able to spin that they have so many million users, but how many have voted with their wallet and no longer paying for an active account?

Like many here, with a heavy heart, I won't be renewing my account and will let it revert to a free account , maintaining it for future reference. 

I've flip / flopped again and at present I'm evaluating Nimbus note as a daily driver. It's best described as a close cousin of Evernote, it certainly doesn't take much relearning to get onto the way of it. Will I stay with Nimbus, the jury's out?  It can do all I need, but there remains a niggle that I don't want to get caught in a single system with no ease of migration. 

I might end up settling for Microsoft OneDrive Outlook and Tasks given I'm paying an annual 365 subscription with 1Tb storage.

Where do you find reference that Nimbus is based in Russia. I've read this a few times but can't seem to find any supporting information? 

They claim to be based in Cleveland, Ohio from all their published information. 

I picked up the same lifetime plan as dbvirago. 

I migrated over my entire EN database, 17,600 notes at last count. The migration was primarily as a backup, but I also wanted to see how it performed with this amount of notes as reviews were mixed on its ability once “loaded up”

So what’s my thoughts? A mixed bag really.  The migration was slow, I exported EN notebook at a time and checked batch number count once migrated. I didn’t loose any notes in the migration but it took several days, sometimes leaving it to do its thing over night. It might have been better to do one EN dump and upload, I don’t know.

Password encrypted files didn’t carry across properly, that was to be expected. They’re there but illegible. I didn’t revisit them for security reasons, but it wouldn’t have been much of an issue to have resolved them had I needed to do so.

What I have found annoying is that some files reverted to incorrect creation dates. They bear no resemblance to their original. I’d say probably a few 100 have done this, but I haven’t been able to determine a pattern or if the issue is EN’s or Nimbus.
 

So in operation Nimbus hasn’t faltered as a web app. But just like EN sync to the desktop app or both my iOS phone and iPad has been poor. The green elephant wheel replaced with a more discrete probing bar at the top of the screen. 
It’s no faster or slower than EN in this regard, but it means it has no advantage to warrant switching. They’re both based on Electron and the limitations of the coding reflect similarly on both. 

Nimbus has some nice formatting touches. The block editing similar to Notion works well. But it also has some strange design decisions. Files can be attached inline, or alternatively as attachments to the note. Both can be present in the same note, but attachments cannot be viewed within the note. 

Likewise todo’s are confined to a collapsible sidebar within the note. Unfortunately these cannot have an assigned date, nor can you perform a search for todo’s. In reality this means they get lost once you move through notes or other folders.

I’ve decided to stick with EN for now. I can’t really put my finger on it, perhaps just familiarity and the time invested in it, but EN remains a powerful draw.

Nimbus has a lot going for it. If I thought EN were not going to improve further in the coming months I’d consider Nimbus as I don’t see anything else cross platform of equal ability. For now, my loyalty remains with EN, hoping things keep improving and become more stable.

Evernote works just fine with Win11.

I've been using Win11 for several month on the pre-release developer channel and connecting to Evernote on either web or V10 Win App has not been a problem. 

Spoke too soon, It's back again this morning. 

Present on any note I try to move. 

I had the same yesterday, but no longer seems reproducible. 

Evernote have advised that this will be a coming feature and this with a lot of other user feedback is in development to be added to Tasks. 

For now it is a matter of patience. 

Yep discovered the same thing happening here this morning. Running Win 10

57 minutes ago, Nick L. said:

Hey folks,

We're working on getting this fixed right now. Apologies for the problem. Here's a workaround. 

1. Go to Evernote Web
2. Add the "Notes" widget to Home
3. Reinstall Evernote on your mobile device and sign in. You should be good to go.

Thanks,

That's not of much use where EN have me throttled to 5.33.0 on the web version and it doesn't have the Home Page or widgets. ....Grrr

I'll see how I get on with Shanes workaround version on the Desktop app. 

Bah....Humbug... Mines stuck too. 

Not seeing anything on my V10.11.5

Where should we be looking?

@gazumped Watched Steve last night and took part in the live webinar chat. 

I agree with Steve's take on a lot of things and the overall management decisions and approach that has been taken by Evernote is understood, I even agree that it makes a lot of sense. Where I have issues is that they're providing upgrades, desktop front ends etc, but rectification of bugs and restoring previous functionality is just not forthcoming. 

Steve didn't ignore the issues, several times he mentioned lack of functionality and how it messed with workflows for "power" users. I did take exception to him quoting that only he 2% of users utilise tags, I remain unconvinced by this and would love Ian Small to provide supporting data to this effect. 

It was perhaps notable that on the mop up Q&A at the end, Steve was asked several functionality questions and didn't know the answer. Of course I'm not expecting him to know everything about the product, none of us do (well excepting a select few on here), but it did highlight clearly that Evernote users are a diverse bunch and what works for Steve does not reflect that others have a different use case and its not working for us. 

I am loath to leave Evernote, realistically I never will because at the very least I'll retain it as a historical database, but I'm getting tired of checking the forums each day and seeing that the same issues remain and that the promised restoration of functionality keeps stretching before us. 

If (and its a big "if") Nimbus works with a larger database I may move across, but it raises enough concerns in itself regarding its background, security and longevity. 
Nimbus is agile at the moment because its young and fresh, (Evernote was there once), but I don't want to be having this same conversation in a Nimbus forum in 10yrs time. 

We'll see how it pans out. I just want a stable 100yr Elephant that keeps doing what I want. I know Legacy does that now, but it won't be around forever.

@bradypatterson

I'm in the process of exporting enex files by notebooks at present. Evernote is raising some errors advising a file cannot be exported, but it give no detail what file that might be.

I've a suspicion the issue might be around password protected files, or very large attachment's. Any ideas on how these rogues might be found?

@Mike P 

I've a theory that the issue is arising because I'm running both V10 and Legacy. I think there's a database hook fault somewhere. 

You're probably on the mark, clearing the database and forcing a new download may solve it, but I'm not really in a position to afford the time to do this at present. 

I'm at the same juncture. 

I bought Nimbus on a whim several months back and toyed with it but didn't apply any serious time to it. Having waited for V10 to improve, I'm at a stage where documented issues are not getting resolved in a timely manner and the recent updates have been more about window dressing than resolving bugs. For example, it's unacceptable for a tag search or filter to provide a null return and this has been flagged in other posts since V10 was released. 

I'm in the process of importing all my 17,500 notes into Nimbus and then I'll give it a proper stress test. Doubtless it has issues too, some of which are documented here, but their agility and responsiveness in addressing problems and introducing useful new features is streets ahead of Evernote. 

I'll run duplicate notes across both applications for a period. I'm not yet ditching Evernote, but it is on its final warning. 

mrothmay, 

I am having the same problem in Win 10 and at the moment it is a deal breaker for me. Searching by tag is my most frequent search. 

I have noted that if I delete the original tag from a note and reapply the tag then it persists and this modified note will show in a tag search. But there's no way I'm going to retag 17,536 notes. 😵

1 hour ago, CalS said:

Not quite the same.  When EN eliminated local notebooks with V10 I needed to find a way to handle the 8,500 private notes I stored therein, mostly PDFs.  As they are private notes sharing is not so much a requirement other than tax time.  The solution I am deploying uses a Windows root folder containing folders for years, Windows indexing (turned on for only those folders), and file explorer.  

To your tag point, a bit barbaric, but I append the file name with [tag1 ...], brackets included.  Typically no more than three tags per document, mostly two in my case.  This should preclude future issues for tag loss.  Using a bulk file rename utility has made this  simple as I save the attachments to the folders.  Drudge work but required to ensure access to these documents. 

To my surprise Windows search works remarkably fast and well.  With preview enabled on file explorer the screen looks similar to EN, notes on the left image on the right.

I am moving everything pre 2021 at this point, about half way there, doing a bit of cleanup along the way.  I am leaving the notes in place in EN during the move, tagging with Moved   I am doing periodic 7zip encrypted backups to OneDrive.  I may switch to putting the folder structure into a VeraCrypt container on OneDrive so as to eliminate the backup step.  Won’t fully decide until I decide how best to recover.  Decision to be made when most is moved.  Many options based upon the folder structure and the like.  The index stays on the local machine in any case.

When I do get everything moved I would still be okay if EN added back local notebooks.  Better to have it all in one place in my view.  FWIW.

Thanks Cal, In some ways your storage need is very close to mine. I haven't had a worry about local docs, I've no problem with mine being on EN servers, I see  this as better security than a local hard drive and back up files elsewhere. That which I store is information useful to me and my clients, but of little commercial value or sensitivity to others. Anytime I've needed, I've made use of data encryption within a note. 

I'm running on a Surface Pro, so hard drive space is limited, hence my use of OneDrive for file storage. I've never explored windows indexing, I assume it works across both local and OneDrive files? I think the only thing putting me off this approach is the tagging workaround. As you say drudge work and I'm the first to admit I'm lazy this way. I'm unlikely to maintain a consistent filename tagging approach for any length of time. 

I understand what you're saying about the file explorer preview, I've mine set up this way also. OneDrive on the iphone also gives me document portability and has been faultless in my use. 

5 hours ago, PinkElephant said:

ScanSnap Home is a scanning software, not a document manager.

Document management can be done in a files and folder structure (SSH is using this when it „organizes“ documents), with all the problems this causes. Or one moves to more professional solutions, of which EN is one possibility.

What keeps me away from all that ScanSnap stuff is that Fujitsu has a mixed record with keeping their software current. I used ScanSnap Manager on my Mac - upgraded to Catalina, and *bang* ScanSnap Manager refused to start. It was still 32bit, not supported any longer. Fujitsu communicated „no more SSM for Macs, use SSH“. OK, switched my workflows over.

Last summer a new 64Bit Version of SSM surfaced. No information from Fujitsu, read about it in a forum. First release not supporting cloud services, chaotic web site, no good information. The release from September now interacts with EN (legacy) again. It is still hard to find, and badly documented.

Conclusion: EN v10 is not what you wish in terms of releases, but Fujitsu is worse. I would never rely with my document management on them. My ix500 does the job, the hardware is very good. But not the software that comes with it.

I never could get on with SSM, to me it was only a scanning conduit. SSH didn't start out too well, and I fully agree Fujitsu communication and update process is a shambles. I only see SSH as a front end conduit for my documents, OneDrive is the storage platform.

As I've replied to Stefan, I think a lot of my issues are Evernote weariness. For me V10 has the potential to be a great product, but its not a patch on Legacy for getting work done. I cancelled my premium subscription last Autumn in some form of protest, only to renew again at the start of the year when I couldn't find a better home elsewhere. 

7 hours ago, Stefan Timm said:

Over the last years I‘ve moved all my personal stuff and all my mobile work stuff from the iMac and MacBook Pro to my iPad Pro. When I bought my 2013 MacBook Pro, I had already decided this would be my last notebook. Given all that, I don‘t think ScanSnap Home would be an option.

I also use a sophisticated (but easy to handle) tag system, loosing my tags would be almost as bad as loosing the documents (even though all docs are full text searchable). Keep It also has an intuitive search that combines full text, tag based (and other metadata based) search without having to learn an inhuman search syntax.

Given the history of Fujitsu with their scanning software (there were major problems with a macOS Upgrade a couple of years back) I‘d strongly advise against it. But that‘s just my 5 cents.

I'm on Windows so Keep It doesn't work for me. Pity I like the look of it. 

I get what you're saying about Fujitsu, I'm aware of their history and do have concerns about the quality of their software and product development. I wouldn't give ScanSnap a second look if it was holding by files in a proprietary container. 

I'm very much on the fence with Evernote at the moment. I've been an advocate of it since very early days. Back then I was an avid note taker, today this has migrated to a document hoarder. Data portability and sharing to others have become much more important to me. 

I guess I might be guilty of Evernote weariness and admit to trying many of the competitions products over the last year. be it Notion, Nimbus, Joplin or OneNote. It might be familiarity, but EN still suits the best. If EN10 could come back to Legacy parity I might be content as is, I do like the new format. 

Oh well,... back on the fence for now. 

Is anyone here on the forums using ScanSnap Home as  document management front end? 

I've found it in conjunction with OneDrive as the file storage location to be a passable alternative to Evernote for my use case, with a tagging system available for data retrieval.
It's not a note taking software, its a file management system in much the same vein as Paperport so it won't work for everyone. 

There are some elements that are "kludgy" such as sometimes having to manually request a reload folder for new documents to appear, or .pdf editing within ScanSnap viewer limited to files generated via the scan snap scanner. But these are minor and not insurmountable. 

The most appealing aspect is that your files remain in their native format within a OneDrive folder, or local folders for sensitive documents you do not wish to be on the cloud. There is no proprietary format or html containers and if scansnap home disappears tomorrow your data is unaffected. 

I'd be interested to know of others using the software and use cases. 

Is anyone using ScanSnap Home as a document management system?

I only occasionally use Evernote to take property survey notes with pictures for work, but my primary use has been as a document filing system, 90% being in .pdf format. 

Last year, long prior to V10 fiasco I was asked to share a collection of documents on a specific use case. Because of IT protocols the company would not download Evernote to share an EN folder. I ended up having to copy all out as pdf files again and sharing as a OneDrive folder which suited their case as they were all an Office365 subscription. 

A lot of my interaction with companies is with O365 so I considered better working with them than trying to reinvent the wheel. The past year I've stored all these documents in a OneDrive account, using ScanSnap Home as the front end. To me this provides the best of both worlds. The documents are all in OneDrive folders, to be shared at will, whilst the Scansnap allows me to Record memo descriptions onto the file and to use a Tag based filing system for search recovery just the same as my Evernote tag system. 

I'm also confident that should Fujitsu someday withdraw Scansnap Home, the worst that will happen is that I will loose the tagging system. The base files remain in their native format and retained within OneDrive which I don't see disappearing anytime soon. 

I'd be interested to hear of anyone else's use case of ScanSnap Home. Details of it appear to be thin on the ground in a web search and I cannot find any independent user forum.