PinkElephant

Your post is short on relevant details like platform, OS, app version etc. But I assume you are talking about webclipper in chrome on a desktop. If you search the forum, you may find a number of related threads. It seems there has been changes on the chrome side Evernote is/was not able to fix from their side. I am not sure what the status of this is now (not using chrome myself), but options are - do an own forum search, maybe there is a thread with a solution - go for support, they should know - use another browser. I am on Firefox on my Win10-PC, and on Safari on my Mac, on both webclipper works

I think that nowadays most users are multi-device, multi-platform. In my case it is Windows, Mac and iOS. If I had to estimate, I would rank my iOS use way above 50%, the rest split among Win and Mac. But most of my serious editing is done on one of the desktop clients, as the note-by-note approach of the mobile client does not allow for multiple notes transactions like joining, batch moving to target notebooks and multi-tagging.

Another issue from a thread in the forum: If the MacOS was not updated for a while, it can cause the new Evernote version not to launch. So if this still does not work, maybe check about your MacOS version.

I would vote for it, when moved.

Dear Ian, dear team, first, the new openness and integration of users is very positive. No company can tell everything, but involving users to get feedback - like in this thread - is always leading to a better product. Second, I like the incremental approach. Much better to improve things in steps, we all can feel, try and comment on, than being promised a big leap whenever (and often never). Third, any focus on the engine that drives EN is very valuable. For me what counts is the reliable, performant structure deep inside, not wet, shiny paint on the surface. Keep up the focus, keep up the drive !

Anybody should be happy to learn that EN has outsourced the data storage to Google (or Amazon, or Microsoft, or ... any other major cloud service). This is common practice today for a lot of companies. It does not mean that Google is handling the data, they just run the data center on which the EN data (which is my data, your data, our data !) is saved and processed. This means the data is super-save, distributed over a number of data centers, backuped to an extend that a single company could most likely not guarantee. If you use the data stored in your EN account professionally, you should think about closing a data processing agreement with EN. For European users with professional data use, this is obligatory under European data protection laws. I did this, with a very professional reaction by EN and without additional cost. Just issue an support ticket, briefly explaining why you want to add this amendment to your account. EN confirms in there that the data will be handled and protected in compliance with the new European data protection laws (which is to my knowledge the strictest ruleset of all G20-countries).

Since the one-time with heavy syncing I have reported above, no more problems. Sync is fast, search is working, switching apps or time-out has no effect on the responsiveness.

Very similar configuration, OS is 10.14.5, but no issue with energy consumption by EN. Is it draining the battery continuously, or are there peaks ?

Hello David, just tried it - because I want to be correct in saying so, I do not have the problems described: Opened a website in Safari Opened a pdf on this website, a new tab opens with the pdf While the pdf is on display, clicked on share, selected Evernote from the apps line A box opens, I introduced a Title (sometimes it puts it right in there, in this case not), picked the notebook and a tag, clicked then on save Very briefly, the data transfer disk shows up Go to Evernote App, it syncs on opening, and the note is there ! So it works with Safari. Chrome I do not use, but I use a handful of other browsers (Cliqz, Firefox klar) on occasion and did not have a problem there either. iOS and EN app are at the latest available release level (no betas), tested on iPad Pro 10.5. I do not have problems either doing the same from my iPhone 6S+.

A quick search for pdf+files+combine brought up several freeware tools that are able to join multiple pdf-file together. Some do it online, so no need to install anything locally, but exposing the content to the providers website, others run on a local installation. So this should be no problem, even if you do not want to purchase a full featured pdf package.

Maybe it is that I just moved in in 2017, and am seriously going digital since mid 2018. So I have no feeling of being locked into something that is aging more and more. I am mostly using iOS, followed by windows initially and Mac since a few weeks. No Android, and very rarely the web client. My stuff is nearly always updated to the latest official version (no betas), OS and apps. It is working, apart from the one or other bug discussed here, like the „freeze-on-search“ of the iOS client solved recently. So far no data corruption, no lost content, no font display issue, no snailing along (caused by the EN client) etc. When I had any issues, support normally reacted within a reasonable response time. The only thing is that for 1 question you submit, they will come back with 3 more on you. But they really want to circle the problem, so whenever I can spend the time needed, they get, what they want, and usually deliver. Maybe I was just lucky up to now. But I feel that I get a fair product for the money I pay, and the attention I invest. Anybody who feels differently should not be too impressed by my personal experience. Setups are different, users are different, usecases are different. And everybody is free to choose whatever tool they like.

Hello, I am on my way to Apple-only. I have realized that I do an ever increasing part of my day to day on my iPad Pro. So I finally decided to get a MacBook Pro a few weeks ago. I am still learning about the OS, bells and handles etc. What I can say, and what for me was the final tipping point: The integration over devices and programs is a dream, everything simply matches. And Apple support makes up for a lot of the price difference - just last week I had a phone chat with support, solving my problem on a 4 year old iphone 6S+, no Apple care or anything. Free call, free diagnosis, top ! On my PC, I had a local installation of Lightroom 6. I am a burst fotografer , taking a lot of pictures when traveling, on family and charity events, and much less in between. So I decided against the adobe Cloud abo, it just does not make itself paid. To replace LR on the Mac, I have tried AfterShot 3, but was not convinced. When I raised my questions, customer support gave the answer (or better, did not give it, so game over). I have now installed Graphic Converter 10, that for a one-time-purchase does what LR did as well. What I like: Fotos are sorted in ordinary folders, and for each foto, a XMB-file with the modifications is written. So I am not locked into the program. It is huge, but offers so many options that you have to find your way into it. So far, I like what I got. One can try it for free as long as you wish with all functions - it just has a growing delay when starting up before you can work. I made my purchase, so no delay any longer. The workflow is not so obvious as in LR. But the Batch processing tools are a class in themselves. One example: You start with a browser, to view the pics. Folders are set up by date, for example. Now it shows JPEG and RAW together. But there is an option down in one of the menus, that sorts the content of a folder into subfolders, based on file type. Applied - one folder for JPEG, one for RAWs inside of the dated folder. Then you go to the JPEGs and weed them out, ranking and moving or straight deleting. And then there is another option in the menus - delete all RAWs that have no corresponding JPEG any longer under the common date-folder above. Very clever - but you have to stitch it together yourself.

In general I doubt that using EN a a picture database is a good idea. EN simply lacks most of what a good picture library offers. There are other programs specialized in this, allowing tagging, comments and modifying existing EXIF data, among the more obvious features like sorting pics, shrinking the size etc. On the Mac, I personally use Graphics Converter which is quite strong in batch processing of a load of pictures in many ways, including RAW processing. It can be tried out as shareware, full version has to be purchased later. Pictures are handled in folder structures, which make them accessible by other programs. If I need picture access in Evernote, I can still copy pictures into EN (which creates duplicates), or create links to the picture file. When doing this, I must never change the folder / path structure to these pictures, because else I end up with a lot of corrupted links.

As an afterthought: Another visualization of Evernote relations is done by Bubble Browser, which is at least available for the Mac. It will show the note or tag structure by circles, the larger the more often a content is used. When you pick let’s say a tag, the bubbles are reduced to all notes / Tags that hold this tag, plus others. Again the number of occurrences is symbolized by the Bubble size. I found it a good tool when I want to weed out my tagging, because it will not only show seldom used tags, but with which other tags they are used jointly. Edit 2020-09-20: WARNING: Bubble Browser no longer worked on my Mac. It crashed and took the whole OS down. My attempt to contact the developer failed, nobody answered to E-mails to the address from the web site. It is still on the AppStore, although I notified Apple about the problems. Since you allow Bubble Browser full access to your EN notes, I warn anybody today against downloading and using it. You can’t know who is going to use the data downloaded from your account - if anybody still cares.

About being familiar with WIndows, who can judge this on his own behalf correctly ? My first computer ran on a 8088 processor and on MS-DOS from a 5,25“ 💾 , then I worked my way trough 3.11, 95, 98, XP, skipped Vista, took 7, skipped 8 & 8.1, and am now running Win10 Home on a native desktop, plus Win 10 Pro in a VM on my Mac. So I think that I am usually not to far off when I need to guess what is going on inside of the box. But sometimes it just boils down to try and error. So I do not say „do this and that, and the sun will shine again“. It sort of surprised me that after the full brakes were applied on my PC by the clogging of the SSD, the reanimation effect only took place after restarting the OS. I think there was more in the background than just a lack of disk space. But I did not analyze, I just wanted to get performance restored and return to productively use my PC again. My personal experience with Win10 was surprisingly good until last autumn. Since then, the Windows updates were all more or less problematic or buggy. I don’t know why, but somehow they did not get it right pretty often with the first, sometimes even not with the second try. And yes, Evernote could need an overhaul for sure. For how it is set up, it is doing bravely well. Still you can feel the limitations everywhere. But this is another story ...

Today I have had a sort of freezing as well again. What was different to before: While the app did nothing, the data connection wheel kept spinning and spinning. In the end I force -closed the app, waited a few seconds, reopened and things were o.k. again. Now I had regrouped a lot of notes a few days ago, like tagging, moving from inbox into the destination notebooks, merging and deleting notebooks etc. This alone was worth more than 1 GB of upload consumption, because EN treats all this as new content. The iOS client does not hold note content, but still a lot of overhead / metadata. So first I can not reproduce this, because I will not redo that many notes in the next future. But I will observe if it was a one-timer (then probably caused by a lot of syncing), or if it will happen again. If this takes place, I will go straight to reopen the support ticket on this that was closed when the new client version got released. For serious work on the database, I use the Mac or Windows clients, but most of my EN day to day retrieval happens on my iPad. I want this to perform dead sure when I need it.

I am sorry, but I won’t be of much help when diving deep into the android client. I am on iOS, that is similar in not using a local database, but probably different in the little machine that runs things in the background. Thus it depends on a working sync as much as the android client Does. If it fails independent from the access path, it seems to be caused by something in the path from server to device, and back. Maybe there is someone else here in the forum whom can help from there onwards.

Somehow it is funny that there is an elaborate search syntax, to solve (nearly) any „show me this or that“ issue. But still we discuss that everything should be clickable, intuitive and done „the natural way“. Is sacrificing the cleanliness of the GUI really the better way to handle things ?

When I scan documents with my iPhone, and send them to Evernote, it just creates a new note with the scanned document as content, and the properties (title, tags) assigned to it by the scanning app. No new window. Just when I use the ix500 ScanSnap, a window is created. This is an Evernote window, not a scansnap-app window. So somehow the transfer of the scanned document into Evernote makes EN show a new window, with this note as content. For each scanned document a new window is created. When I scanned a lot, I have some housekeeping to do. For me, scanning things is the most important source to create content in Evernote, followed by Webclipper and forwarding E-Mails into the account. Creating and typing notes in EN I do comparatively scarcely.

If on a mobile device, for me the ultimate test would be to sync through a mobile connection. If it works there, the likely problem is somewhere with the WLAN network.

Maybe ... My EN got snailed down when Windows left so much update residue on my system disk that only 30GB were left. Among this were several system fallback points, probably created between Update runs. I could free nearly 100GB by getting rid of this stuff (no need to fallback, things were running, but slooooow). And I know pretty well what all this is good for, and whether I need it or not. Cleaning up helped, but only after a complete restart the system and Apps were back to normal. Evernote performed after this little operation as before, which is fast throughout any practical use like search, retrieval, scanning, tagging etc. Maybe the software concept is a little dated - room for improvement, but for me without a real negative impact. P.S. I would not call an i7-Desktop with 16GB RAM, a 512GB SSD, 2TB HDD and a 21TB NAS as data server „restricted“. But the Windows updates this year made my day ...

Sometimes it is just try and error. As an example: When I scan something from my ix500 into my Windows Evernote, it goes straight into the database, without an extra window. When I do the same scanning into my Mac, each scan opens its own little window, that I will have to close later. Why ? No idea ! I have not yet found the switch to kill it. And the scanning interface is very different in Windows and Mac. But this is Fujitsu, not Evernote.

What may have an influence is the second option from top down „Open note links ....“. You have switched it off, so no new window from there. Another may be in the clipper tab the topmost option „Clip forward. ... „ (or something, have to translate this stuff) In the Mac client these two are those that may have an impact on this new window creation.

Another option would be to create a pdf from the paper layout, import it into a notetaking app (Goodnotes 5 in my case), take notes with an iPad + Pencil, and copy + paste the resulting handwritten notes into Evernote. To create the pdf of the paper form, simply scan it using a scanner that can create pdf-format. Any pdf can be imported as a template into Goodnotes.

From my experience: Evernote is not the culprit... Windows updates made it slow down in my case, and filled my SSD with sedimented data left over after the update was through. What helped: Clean up the start up disk (in most cases “c:“ ) Using the explorer, right click on „c:“, properties, clean up as admin including the system files, then empty the trash, and restart windows.