Tony Ballantyne

https://blog.tonyballantyne.com/2023/07/16/au-revoir-evernote-hello-obsidian/

@ivodre @timmycomedy I was experiencing this issue. I spoke to support who said:

"I've learned the behaviour you're experiencing is a known issue and we're diligently working on a fix as we speak. While we do not have an ETA of when the fix will be available, I always recommend checking our Release notes for all Evernote updates"

4 hours ago, vladcampos said:

I see a lot of value in the Evernote-Drive integration; however, I would love to see a real integration. Similar to what happens with embedded YouTube videos, it would be extraordinary to see and maybe be able to edit parts of spreadsheets, videos, and other documents as a window in the note. 

This would be of much use, specially for people that need more powerful tables. Other use cases would be watching in the note our videos saved in Google Drive.

 

And a simple version of this have already existed in the past. Before Evernote 10, images and videos from Google Drive would have a thumbnail below that gray bar.

 

 

Nice idea. EN is never going to replicate a spreadsheet in its tables, but this is a nice work around. I suppose it's like Microsoft's old OLE.  I wonder how much work it would be to implement?

Scrivener has a nice feature where you can split one document into two separate documents. I'd like something similar on EN

So if I had note like this:

=======================

Poems

I never saw a purple cow

I never hope to see one

But I can tell you anyhow

I'd rather see than be one

I am like a fish

in love with a bird

Wishing I could fly

=====================

I could put the cursor in between the two poems and then right click/long press and chose split.  I'd end up with two notes

10 hours ago, Colbunko said:

That's good for your issue, but there is still no apparent way to save a newly created note on Android phone.

Fair point Colbunko. Still, it's worth noting when they fix something. Hope they sort your issue soon.

Hold on!  10.14 appears to have fixed the tags issue! Hooray!  Thanks, Ian Small, CEO of Evernote. 

First, the positive news.  It used to take v10 30 seconds to open, it's now down to about 10 seconds, sometimes as low as 5 seconds. I can just about live with that.

The trouble is that once open, it still doesn't work properly. It can't find all tagged notes, syncing is erratic.

Am I going to stop using Evernote? No. I use EN on multiple platforms, the move to consistency was a priority for me, I love the new features and the direction things are going. I am unreasonably happy about the Linux Beta.

Do I recommend EN to others? Yes.

But can I recommend the Android app?  No. It's not so much how slowly it runs, though that's frustrating, it's the fact that it's simply not reliable. I've been caught out too many times in meetings looking at a list of three tagged notes when I was expecting ten.  

But it's getting better...

1 minute ago, DTLow said:

That's an opinion; the basic search features are still supported   
If you consider Boolean "essential", you can upgrade to the Professional plan

I think @qofmiwok

Puts it best

And now you will have to be at a  "professional" level to use boolean search?  It's an insult.  

You want to give higher features to higher plans, make it actual features like calendaring, tasks, etc.  But searchability of your product is sacred and should be in the most basic of plans, or there is no value to having Evernote.

2 minutes ago, PinkElephant said:

Hmmmm. But obviously you believed you can only search for cat and dog (with a logical AND) when you pay for it ?!

At least you picked that example, not me.

Whatever, PinkElephant.

4 minutes ago, PinkElephant said:

As I showed you, you can do the same using the search syntax open to all users. It was „always“ available, gained more and more powerful parameters over time and got more complex itself) and just now received a free upgrade by the „contains“ parameter.

It is described in the same help document, just above what you quoted. And it works for all accounts. You can do the same searches as with Boolean operators - as long as the searches are not very complex.

When building a search, keep in mind it is an interpreter - reading and executing left to right. Full Boolean allows for brackets, and through this for more complex search requests.

 

Hmmm. Given that I quoted the advanced search syntax document and that I am commenting on Boolean searches it would be reasonable to assume I know the above.

Just now, PinkElephant said:

I appreciate your ability to pick the dead wrong example to prove your point:

When you enter both words into the search field, EN will search only notes that contain both words. This is the standard, a Boolean AND.

To search notes that contain only one word of several, the syntax is all: cat dog . It is the equivalent to a Boolean OR.

Where it gets tricky is when you try to build complex Boolean requests. But cat AND dog is a piece of cake.

Actually, I was quoting Evernote's own help page: https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/208313828-How-to-use-Evernote-s-advanced-search-syntax

Here's the section

Boolean search

This feature requires a Professional or Teams subscription.

Boolean search uses operators that can combine or exclude certain terms in a search query. In Evernote, you can search using the operators AND, OR, NOT, and ( ). Below are a few examples.

1 minute ago, PinkElephant said:

Up to now EN did without boolean search, for more than a decade. So it can’t be THAT essential. In fact the advanced search syntax (which is available for all users) allows pretty deep drilling as well. It got an upgrade now through the „contains“ parameter, free for all.

It seems the change in plans improved search for everybody. 

EN did without a lot of things for the past decade that I would consider pretty essential. The massive rebuild over the past two years is evidence that they think the same.

Find notes with the words dog and cat = a higher subscription?  That's ridiculous.

16 minutes ago, DTLow said:

Why???   
Boolean attributes are a great addition to the search feature   
If you don't need the attributes, simply don't use them

Precisely.  Boolean attributes are essential. There is no reason for charging extra for a feature that should be standard. 

Boolean search should not be on the professional tier.

4 minutes ago, RJK--Editor said:

Your note prompted me to try again--and it seems to be working now, with -tag. I still think it's an awkward setup, but at least it's happening!

Actually, I might have spoken too soon. Looks like -tag is still included in the premium/personal plan

Ah, I wonder if the problem is that -tag now comes under the professional subscription?  I'd feel rather cheated if I now have to pay extra to continue using a feature I've relied on for years...

Same issue here.

I have the same problem too. I find that restarting the phone helps it find more tags.

Acually, I don't think it's just tags. It seems to have trouble finding and displaying notes when the phone has been on for a while

I'm getting the same problem.  Search loses focus, the insertion point switches to the body of the note.