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Seems they are set to get the company back on track.

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??? @CyroxianHere at the forum, we are all users, except those explicitly tagged with a staff badge in their profile. So maybe we should treat each other like this.

I agree that everybody may have his own approach. So it is an interchange of ideas, not setting „the law“.

@TroyC About your questions: I create an external link when I have the note open. On iOS: Share, more options, external link, pick Things from the share menu. No „copy & paste“. It copies the title plus some of the notes text content into the things task, plus the link to the note. The title contains sufficient information to get what the note (and task) is about, because it is what I see in the preview of EN as well. The initial text helps as well. If needed, I can alter both in Things, which will not reflect back to EN. Yes, it is one task at a time. Following GTD, this is enough for most tasks, because you define your „next action“ and file the task accordingly. It is possible as well to create several tasks from the same note, if there is content that leads to several strings of follow-up-action. But in real life, this is rarely needed, because most will be done sequentially, one step after the other. Things can be used to organize projects as well - but this is another story. Can be done as well, but I would prefer another system for projects because Things is a completely personal task manager, that does not allow to manage a workgroup. So at the moment you want to invite somebody to the show, you are better off with other tools, like Trello, Meistertask etc. In this context I see EN more as a information carrying Tool, not to manage. The external links will work there as well, if the tool allows for it (many do). I see your point if you want to generate more from within EN. Then a tool like TaskClone will for sure be helpful.

The logic behind this defies me. I create a note (= a container, what I really want is the information inside, and I want to be able to find it) Now, to be safe I will really find it, I duplicate this note several times and stuff it into several notebooks (=places for containers that contain information) Because it is hard to keep all this places in mind containing the note with identical information, I create another note that contains just the information about where all these duplicate notes are to be found. And of course I need to create a place where to stuff all these content-table-notes, because I need to find these. If I translate this into a personal paperbased archive, it is a room full of lockers. All lockers contain in total multiple copies of the same information elements, under the rule that never the same information is in one locker twice. And to find this information, there is a master locker containing the index. Without all the copies, a cleverly organized cupboard would probably do the same job. I have learned (long ago, informatics course at the university) that you hold each information (note) just once, and create access to it by keys (tags) or through indexing (search). Because in a well organized database funded system, there is no need to duplicate information just to be able to find it. And it will not „loose“ Information, like you can loose a piece of paper. NO duplicates allowed ! But of course, a powerful and flexible engine like EN will allow to create and organize multiple copies of the same information. If one has the time and draws some fun out of it ...

@TroyC Thanks for posting. I checked your link, sounds interesting. The only question is if I really need some intermediary. If I create an external link and share it into Things, it will open a new task with the note title as task title, with the initial note content as task text and with a link that allows to jump always back to the original note. All of the task handling is then done on the Things task. Evernote will be the content platform, and Things the engine that drives progress. Following up on tasks in more than one task manager is always frustrating, so I prefer to have the task management just in one setup. By sharing between Evernote and Things, all tasks are in one place only. From your point of view, where is the value added by putting some management system in between ?

My solution is to share the note externally into Things. The task in Things contains a link to the note in Evernote. This task can be handled in Things as any other, including recurring settings. These can be on a fixed scale, like every month on the 15th, or can depend on the closing of the task, like „open this again 1 month after it got confirmed last“. The task is completely handled by Things, through the link it is always possible to open the note with one click. The note can be modified, content can be added etc., the link will stay valid anyhow.

Really WTF ! Have you opened a support ticket on this ?

The answer is that EN build it’s own search index on the server, from „looking“ at pictures and pdfs not OCRed. They will not change the original note or attachment, but add the content to the index. If the attachment is OCRed itself, or in case of a picture contains the text as a tag in the EXIF-data, it will be found when you search within of the note. If the attachments were not OCRed or marked, the search will show you the note in which the content is located.

If it serves you well, it is o.k. You can always create copies of a note, and put them into as many notebooks as you wish. It just means that these copies have a life of their own, and from experience they will start to move apart. Content, title, tags etc. You will never remember or have the time to change all of the sibling notes when you update one of them. So the best way is to have one note, that contains all the content and is the only one to receive updates, and linking it up through other notes that contain a link to this original one.

This is how it looks in the Inbox of Things on my iPad. Just created a test-task and shared it as a link into Things. The new task is created automatically using the title (Test) and the body (Test again) of the EN note the link was created from. Below is the external link. Once you click it, you get directly to the note in EN. Title and body of the task will not sync, but the note itself will always have the actual status saved in EN. So you can do with the task whatever you want to control the flow, and add all content to the note. Example: I had a legal issue going on with my attorney. Created a note in EN, from that created a task in Things. All the initial stuff, documents etc. went into the note. The task moves from date to date, or from GTD-container to GTD-container (like „Phone“, „Computer“ or „Meeting“). When we have contact, I save the content we spoke about in the EN note, as letters, mails etc.. Gives more flexibility than having the note itself being moved around, plus more tools to handle the task than EN offers.

No issue at all. Not on my iphone (6S+, battery changed 6 month ago), my iPad Pro or my MacBook Pro. On iOS EN is below 1% battery consumption on both devices, on the MBP it is not listed under „significant“. I have all of my notebooks in the cloud, plus a complete offline set on my iPad. I can not remember that I ever had an energy problem on any of my devices related to EN. EN is typically open all day long in the background on my iPad and on the MBP. On iOS, maybe check for typical background jobs like EN widgets or else. I have pretty much cut that to zero, on all of my apps. On the MBP, no idea. Delete the apps, and reinstall ? Take care if you have only local notebooks with that approach ! No chance to get them back from the server.

What result do you expect ? With me, it creates a note with some text, a link to the video plus a still image from the video. The link is working, as are others from the clips embedding. Tried it on Safari, directly on YouTube.de (which is the official local German site). Did not work on all clips, but maybe the content itself is blocked.

Option 1: Get all your checklists, split them up Option2: Stay with the existing checklists, all new stuff is created as notes. Set a final date, when you will dissolve the last leftovers of checklists into notes (as in opt.1, but less volume, and you can check and improve the new system). My solution: I‘ve got Things as task manager, able to do all stuff like recurring reminders, start and deadline dates etc. And I like the interface ... When I need to follow up, I create an external link of a note, and create from it a new Things-task. Through the link embedded, I can always jump back to that note. Result: Content in EN, Command & Control in Things.

As long as the preaching goes on, at least they will stop singing 🥴

Yes - and then rely on those who load a beta, crash their stuff and are whining away about it ! Since Apple launches a new OS every year AND the Adaption of apps to the new OS practically only starts when the developers beta is out, a complex app like EN will never be ready when the public beta starts. So who gives a f*** ? If you offer such an app, rushing things and releasing a bad product of your own is really no alternative !

Glad you could solve this. Think about joining the cloud service ! It will create another layer of security for you. You could upload what is there during (probably) one month of going Premium, and then continue on Basic. Even when on basic, EN will not delete anything, they just restrict the upload of new stuff.

If you have trouble with the access due to „too many devices“, use the web client for the operation. The web client does not count within of the 2 devices limit, and is always accessible.

A beta is a beta is a beta is ... Who is Running a beta should expect crashes. And who is running a beta of an OS together with a stable version of an app should know that if the app crashes, it is most likely due to the beta OS. So what is to fear ? Negative reviews by users that don’t know what they are doing ???

My suggestion is to install it directly from the EN website. It is the same program, but when installed from the App Store it will run somewhat restricted. I had some problems initially, which were solved after uninstalling the App Store version and reinstalling from the website. Make sure you have fully synced before uninstall. If you have „local“ notebooks, see that you have an actual Time Machine Backup as well, because these notebooks will not sync to the server.

As you can see, there are 2 entries (= accounts) inside of the Evernote-folder on your disk. Probably the first one xx566, with the smaller number, is the one containing your notes. The second one xx9933 is the one probably created by accident. You can check, if this is true the files and folders inside should show a recent date on which they were created. You just need to access the original one to get everything back as you had it before. If you did not save anything in the second one yet (the one you say is „empty“), you can delete it later. For now try to find out what are your real access credentials, and try to open your real account trough the EN app again. ****************** After and when this is resolved, think about using the EN cloud. Either by going PREMIUM in general, or at least by doing so for a month. One month will give you 10GB of upload allowance, which is pretty much in terms of EN data. If you have more, maybe you will need to buy additional time. There are many advantages with using the EN cloud. One of this is to have a second backup in a place where it is secure even when a fire would destroy your Mac AND your time machine target at the same time. A second one is to have a note history, which means you can always go back to an older version of a note that you changed. This is for using it a Premium feature, but the versioning will be created for BASIC users as well - just without giving access to it as long as you are on Basic settings.

Most likely reason is that by accident (typo or something) you have created a completely new account. This will be empty ... ENEX is the EN backup format, so if you did not create one before because you wanted, you do not have it. But the data will still be there, on your Mac but as well on the EN server. So no need to create anything anew. And no need to go back through time machine (but good you have it up and running).

If you wipe all cookies on close, this will most likely as well wipe out your account data. If there is an option to do this, put Evernote to a whitelist for not being wiped. Or stop wiping (which you probably do not want for other reasons), or live with always logging in. Now I've read your initial post again: What does "reset my PW" mean ? Create a new one every time you try to log in ?

Maybe you should post more often ... In my case, the weird spotlight-thing did not occur for a long time. It came out of blue sky, I did not have my MBP unplugged or something before. And it appeared just once, not each time I started EN after. 7.11. got available shortly after, so I upgraded, and that is it. IMHO there is really no reason not to upgrade, it is running stable since.