Don Dz

I have not yet observed an attempt to consolidate all the "Exclude"/"Archive" tag requests into a single topic, so I suspect they might not be considering it seriously. Having to use a saved search to manually exclude a special tag on every search is a little inconvenient, but I guess we all do it, until they implement it as an option setting (if ever).

Under some circumstances the previous search is sometimes removed/lost in history, apparently in connection with editing or deleting one or more notes. Really weird when it happens.

Even with your ssd drive? That happens a lot with my slow netbook with 2gb ram (the speed issue often makes my EN scripts unreliable). On my 16gb desktop that never happens, though I still see speed issues with switching notes (used to be instant, long ago).

I would be content if the browser arrow navigation or hotkey navigation worked consistently, but often it doesn't, sometimes notes in the history are missing, forcing me to rely on an often cluttered shortcuts bar, or temporary manual links which I may forget to delete later.

It all depends on the size of your monitor, and your resolution setting, I have my 27 inch monitor set to 175% text size and 1920x1080 resolution, and my 13 inch to 200% text size at 1792x1344 resolution, try experimenting with what works for you. Also try Settings-Ease of Access-Display, the text size slider might help a little. Many people have posted about organizing with tags, I have borrowed DTLow's ideas, it's all about single character prefixes that display a whole category of tags, my main categories are as follows: ?Who, @Where, .When, /What, `GTD, ;Ref, ~Music, etc. Those are tag headers for the actual tag stacks I use. This way I can display only the group of tags I need in the tag field of the note, without using the left panel. I tag every untagged or undecided note with #T, much easier to find & process later than if it had no tag. Notebooks used to be much the same, but I have reduced mine to 3 main ones, plus a few special purpose ones, I basically focus on tags now. I agree about the screen clutter, I have shortened many of my tags (Proj instead of Project, wk instead of weekly, td in place of to do, etc.), to help with that situation.

On WIndows 10, go to Settings-System-Display-Scale and layout, play around with the size of text and Resolution till you are satisfied, you may have to sign out or reboot to see the difference in Evernote. Personally I keep mine at 200%. I have tags and notebooks organized so that I no longer need the left panel open in normal use, so I can better use the bigger font size. I suspect that the Mac version might be the better EN implementation, based on posts I have been reading (never tried it), though the Windows version has a few tricks apparently missing from the Mac version.

For unique characters, or anything i use often enough, I find it less work to use a text replacement app or script, rather than having to remember alt codes.

My dashboards are the same type as the example above, but recently I also started using tags the way I described. If having access to the EN APIs is the only way to do what you do automatically with a script, I guess the rest of us without access have to try other options for dynamic changes and additions. My suggestion is one possible option. Sometimes this is more convenient than manually updating every dashboard link. I certainly can understand why CalS doesn't bother too much with ToC notes, if they change too frequently.

Well, your example was a search, but if a dashboard note had those same tags, it would be a simple matter to click on the right side of both tags in the note, to display all Active Projects, at least in Windows. I am referring of course to the right arrow that automatically appears when hovering over the tag area of the note. In the example below, clicking on the right side of any of those tags would display all notes with those tags. The effect is cumulative. I don't know if it works that way on the Mac.

One option is to use dashboard notes tagged with the same tags as all the linked ToC notes, that way one can display all the related notes from the right side of the tag in the note, without having to access the left panel. Is what I do at least, I don't always feel the need for ToC notes when using dashboard notes this way.

I have been wondering to what extent one can emulate what Filterize does, but using a script program like AutoHotkey. it would be an interesting project for sure. I use a number of AH scripts with EN to automate things, in conjunction with structured tags and ToC, and of course plenty of dashboards. I am still not confortable with third party services having access to my data, limited only by a promise not to access more than necessary.

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Thanks for sharing. Like others, I do something similar. But I have found that each additional box/bullet/numbered list, or even check box to some degree, takes an inordinate amount of screen space on a table, both horizontally and vertically, so I try to use as few boxes as possible, and create separation with manual bullet characters (•). rather than bullet lists from the menu, which create a huge left margin, wasted space in my view. I need to see as much info without scrolling as possible.

While I cannot reproduce that exact example, I thought the extra lines problem was a common occurrence during cutting and pasting, so I just kinda got used to the extra editing (a side effect of using beta versions too often, I guess). Glad to know others recognize it as a bug.

Not an answer, more like a confirmation of a similar text-becomes-image problem: Also, I posted a topic about encrypted notes becoming images, that seems related somehow.

Copying a large amount of plain text from Evernote into Windows Notepad will remove all hard returns, rendering the text a huge jumbled mess, particularly if the text was encrypted,. This apparently doesn't happen with a smaller amount of text. It is repeatable, though not always consistent. it seems to happen most consistently with encryption. I am using 6.20 beta 1, it was present in previous version, don't know how far back. I use Notepad to check for formatting problems from copied text, before pasting it into other programs.

On Windows, try signing out out of your user name, then exiting, rebooting, then signing back in. On your note list, make the sync column visible, sort all notes by sync, then sync all notes. If any notes still have a dot next to them, they are not synced, so additional steps would be needed. I find the Android version kinda buggy in general, I try not rely on it for entering data too much, though it has more features than the iOS version, which seems more solid.

If the general performance of the program is affected, it has been reported that manually signing out of your user name on the program (not just closing the program), then exiting, rebooting, and signing back in manually, is supposed to help.

Hmm, not sure about number of words, but I notice little to no slowdown in notes from 3 to 28 megabytes, with graphics &, tables, even PDF notes get only somewhat slower. But I have a number of notes copied from the internet, 1 megabyte or less in size, but they are copies of heavily formatted pages, one of them is from a Facebook page. Those notes are very slow to display. In general, I find information I copy from the web with formatting preserved, may go from slightly slower to very slow, so I usually strip things up when I can, unless the formatting is important. It may also happen if the note has errors, in such cases I rebuild the note, just in case.

If there is no other program installed in your new laptop, I would look at the WIndows 10 global hotkeys, I had to disable them to fix some hotkey conflicts before. This link might help with that: https://windowsreport.com/disable-keyboard-shortcuts-windows-8/#2

If I understand you correctly, it sounds like saved searches would address your concerns for selection/deselection of multiple notebooks and/or tags. Yes, syntax can be tricky, but once you get it right, you can save it for reuse.

That does happen occasionally, but between two somewhat different copies of the same note, vs a lost note, seems worth it to me.

Yes, though I managed to rescue my recent lost data by copying it from another device before updating. I always disable/delay automatic synchronization whenever possible, for just such a time as this.

They gave me a complimentary Premium account for several months after I reported some data corruption issues, this expired upon my annual renewal in June. Not sure why it hasn't reverted back to Plus on the forum, for sure I no longer have note history.