J.V.

@PinkElephant I am a developer myself and I understand the necessity of updates, but, they should not disrupt the user experience.
I rely on Evernote as a tool where I store some critical information I may need immediate access to.
Now imagine that I am e.g. on the call and need to access my notes. I'm starting Evernote and see that I was logged out and the current version is suddenly not supported anymore. I even cannot upgrade automatically, and manually downloading the new version from the website and installing it takes some time.
So basically the software fails me.
I am not opposed to updates, but can please make them not so obtrusive?
 

Seriously? yesterday my client (which forecefully updates itself nearly everyday in the least appropriate time) was supported, and today it's not?
I understand that updates are necessary to throw a new portion of popups and banners at me, but that's ridiculous.

Not sure if this has been already reported, but this is clearly a bug that disrupts my workflow a lot.
If i have a tag that has Cyrillic "б" as a second letter,  like ".библиотека", when I type ".б" in input field, when I hit "б" this triggers form submission, instead of filtering and proposing the values that start with ".б"
As a programmer I can suggest that event.code is used instead of event.key to specify the keys, that trigger submission (Enter and comma). And because in Cyrillic key with code Comma actually is used for the 'б' letter, submission is triggered by 'б' letter. I suspect there may be problems with other language layouts too.

It's also quite strange that I can't cancel typing the tag by pressing the Esc button, but that's another thing.

I hope this will be fixed ASAP because it's quite annoying

 

18 hours ago, CalS said:

Some folks create a note for the description of the project details and tag it with the project name. Preceding project tags with a period (.) or the like helps find project tags, tag:.*.  Add a tag like Proj.Desc to those notes and you can easily find all project description notes.  FWIW.

Yes, this is the way.
 

On 26.01.2020 at 22:47, CalS said:

Horses for courses of course, but I'm of the opinion tags should be as simple and as self explanatory as possible.  Also, one should use the minimum amount possible, a function of use case for sure.  Tags work great for culling searches to a manageable number of notes, with some text added to the search if need be.  Too many tags will eventually lead to confusion, vis a vis, needing a description to remember the purpose of the tag.  Not against the enhancement for those that might want it, just a different view on tag usage.

Approaches may differ. Until you settle on your own system of tags that suits you well,  it takes a road of trial and error. Especially for novices, that are not used to tags and know where to start from.
Self-descriptive tags are the best, if you already have a working tag system, that you know good, you probably won't need descriptions... but until then it's a good idea to provide each tag with a description to remind yourself what purpose you used this tag for, and kind of summarize your experience to decide if you need it at all.

On 26.01.2020 at 23:05, DTLow said:

I added my vote; however I rely on the hierarchy to add detail to my tags
There's an actual hierarchy feature, which I replicate in my tag name;
for example Budget-EntertainmentMusic
In this way, I'm not wondering the purpose of a Music tag

Thanks. Hierarchy is a must (in fact it is a killer feature that very little of Evernote 'alternatives' have).
Indeed I have a several namespaced root categories, such as *theme, =type, -action, #todo, .projects etc, that have several nested levels each.
But I'm still improving it, some tags can even change names and meaning over time. For example, from @temp to #todo - #delete (temporary notes and bookmarks that should be deleted when assocciated project is finished)
Each project tag itself could use a description with project details.

On 26.01.2020 at 23:37, jbenson2 said:

I started Evernote 12 years ago. I've been using it daily so my total note count (in 2 separate accounts) is hitting 60,000. 

I have approximately 1,600 tags, which use a specific system to avoid confusion. 

I have found  the following works best for me:

1. lots of specific tag names 
2. a consistent title structure for each note and 
3. just a few notebooks with general broad categories

Many of my tags start with the 3-4 character prefix. A misfiled tag shows up like a sore thumb.

Here are some examples of my prefix tags (Com- has the most number of tags):

• Com- for Company (tag:Com-WalMart)
• Fam- for close Family members (tag:Fam-JLB)
• Iss- for Political issues (tag:Iss-Election-2020)
• News- for Media (tag:News-FOX)
• Per- for Personal (tag:Per-Yard)
• Govt- for Government (tag:Govt-Federal)
• Ins- for Insurance (tag:Ins-Dental)
• Job- for Jobs (tag:Job-ITT)
• Tech- for Tech (tag:Tech-Android)
• Trav- for Travel (tag:Trav-Maine)
   

p.s. 20,000 of my notes are for politics - local, state, country, and international. This group consumes a large variety of tags.

 

I think that 3 notebook categories is enough: Incoming, Library and Archive (each has 'local' and 'syncronized' notebooks in it). They serve just for "high-level" filtering of everything.
 

Don't know if this already was requested (haven't found anything with search)

So, strangely, Evernote doesn't have a very useful feature that I think must be very easy to impement - ability to add individual description to each tag.
While deloping elaborated tag system, it would be very handy to have some kind of description so you could remember the exact purpose of the given tag and why it was introduced.
This will help much with consistent tagging (you can read tag description and decide whether you want it or not for the note).