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Weird - never had such a problem up to now, so I have no idea what may cause this problem. Maybe one of this Links can be of help for you. I have copied them from the EN help pages, so I do not know whether they need a prior login. https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

Who’s got it, has got it 🍎 And one per day as well keeps the doctor away.

@vegemiteTried to push your issue to EN staff. Think they will reach out to you, probably on Monday. But please continue to try to get into contact yourself. As you know the (no-)refunding policy (see above), any positive decision is based on goodwill ...wish you luck.

... and it is dead sure that any system running on Vista is unsafe at the very moment it gets connected to the internet. So maybe it will not sync, but maybe it will, but the whole setup will get corrupted by some of the bad stuff roaming about in the net, searching for vulnerable systems. It is maybe nice to operate it in a isolated environment, just for the experience.

Just FYI: Us „regulars“ have pushed the issue of the Android client as far up the ladder as possible. Even me, and I do not own a single piece of Android-driven equipment ... The „staff“ guys are completely aware of the situation. It is only they delivered in the past often software not sufficiently tested, so for one bug relieved, there were two more created. So they take their time making sure that the solutions will work. With iOS, this worked pretty well. But it is easier, because the hardware is more consolidated, and usually iOS devices run updated, current software. My own iPhone 6S+ is running better with iOS 12 than it did with his native iOS 9. This means not only features, but speed and memory consumption as well. Android is running on much more diverse hardware, and updating is not promoted by all hardware suppliers (with all the crapware loaded to the gadgets ...). So making sure a fix will work is much more difficult to assure. So far, so bad !

Get yourself a second web identity and another browser. It has the advantage that at breakfast you can talk to yourself, one split personality to the other 👨‍🌾👨‍🎨

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

This forum is user driven, so don't wait for somebody to show up. Tried this already ? https://www.evernote.com/SupportLogin.action You need to login with your account credentials.

??? @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.