s2sailor

Aside from missing this feature, searching in EN is actually pretty good and you should hopefully not have to export your notes to search them. Can you provide an example of this and maybe we can offer some suggestions or work arounds.

I have not found search for these longer notes to be much of an issue. A few times I have needed to use Ctrl F but I can usually scan the note pretty quick to find what I need. Notes do not need to be that long for this to be a useful feature. My main use case is for a development meeting that I run. I have one note per meeting that is projected to a group. It would be impractical, even with note links, to break this into smaller notes. Each note includes the history of the prior meetings and each entry is date coded. I would use this feature to collapse all sections of the note that do not pertain to the current meeting. It would allow us to better focus on what is most important that meeting. I would also use it in other notes to temporarily hide information that may not be of primary importance. Again, a way to focus on the main points. Workflowy is a great tool. I've used it as well but would still prefer to see the function built into Evernote. At least into the desktop clients. This post describes it better than I just did.

Others, including me, agree. FWIW you can vote on the feature request here.

Thanks for posting this. I never share notes so I tried this expecting no hits and found three notes. No idea how or why they were shared and I agree that the step to first enable public link and then disable is completely unintuitive.

Bugs are personal. For some they are show stoppers and others just a slight nuisance, and others still might not experience the problem at all or easily work around it to the point where it is a non-issue. Development has to sort through this as well as they try to understand a bug's impact and prioritize fix effort. To circle back to the topic there have been three times in my years of usage where I considered leaving EN. Twice was performance related and once due to the editor. Somewhere back in the v3 days performance was (at least for me) horrid. 10's of seconds to get a search result. Rumors of a v4 rewrite kept me hanging on and the wait was worth it. Search delay was back to an acceptable level. As my database grew through v4 and v5 I started getting increasingly bothersome slow downs. A laptop upgrade to an i7 barely helped. I rolled the dice and replaced the HDD with an SSD, knowing that even if EN didn't improve, my overall system performance would at least be better, That change proved to be a tremendous overall system and EN performance improvement. Search is instantaneous again. I have another system still with an HDD and v6 has improved that to (for me) to an acceptable level. The editor issue was bullet related. At one time it was truly bad. Extra bullets, missing bullets, weirdly indented bullets, you name it and sometimes no amount of tweaking would fix it. For a while I used a different editor for bullet notes and then copied those to EN. They made (very) slow improvements but the switch to the new editor fixed most of the problems I was seeing and now with v6 I am not experiencing any editor or other problems whatsoever. From my point-of-view, for how I use EN, it is working flawlessly, so let's bring on the new features .

Software with any degree of complexity has bugs. The challenge for any company is to figure the best way to log and prioritize defects and then decide how to use their limited resources on fixing which ones and, or adding new features, if they feel it necessary for business success. As an example, should resources be focused on fixing some nuisance problem that affects only a few users, or should they instead be focused on developing some new premium feature, such as zero knowledge encryption, that has the potential of adding new paying customers to the service? How they focus their efforts will be a balancing act that Evernote management will decide. As others have mentioned, an external tracking or voting system won't help. Companies that get it right will succeed and those that don't will fade away.

Some will never be fixed. That is the nature of software design. The hope is that the majority of ones causing uses grief do get fixed. I wasn't commenting on the effectiveness of EN's internal process just that I think the public tracking list suggestion would not make a difference. It is up to EN to focus time, energy and resources on fixing defects. If they do, the process shouldn't matter much and we'll see improvement. Spending energy in public debate over the status, priority or details of the fixes could actually slow them down. I agree that they had their eye off the ball for a while but with the rollout of the new editor and v6 for Windows, IMO they do appear to be doing better, but from the comments that others have posted, they are not there yet.

I find the auto-populate feature useful but I can see how it's of little use if there are links within a note, but if you are pasting links into a note does it matter what shows in the URL field? The field seems redundant to me at that point. Just trying to understand your use case.

I can't imagine any company ever doing this. I'm sure internally they have some type of tracking and prioritization mechanism but nothing positive would be gained by making this available external to the company. It would just result in endless and worthless debate over why bug #14 is not #1 or why Jim does not appear to be closing defects at the same rate as Mary.

Thanks.

FUT?

For the longest time I gnashed my teeth over the lack of recurring reminders and even used Todoist for quite a while. I did not like having my todos separate from Evernote so came back and gave reminders another try. For my use, I do not need to record the completed date of a recurring reminder so when I complete a reminder I just reset the date for the next time it is due. To help me remember this is a recurring reminder I put a note in the body like "repeats weekly" or "repeats monthly" and with the new tag color coding I have a recurring tag set to green so I have a color reminder as well. I also have an urgent tag set to red that I add to important reminders. I have saved searches for Work Today, Work Tomorrow and Work Next Week that will give me those views and the color coding helps to quickly locate the urgent ones and those that repeat. With these changes, reminders are now working very well for my use. I no longer miss the lack of a recurring function.

I found the older post that I was thinking of. I stand corrected, the upgrade path is no longer supported by Evernote customer support, but here are the details. Use at your own risk and please backup your data first before trying. EverNote v2.3: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12760413/EverNote2.zip-- this is a patched executable which can coexist with modern versions of Evernote. Evernote 3.1: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12760413/Evernote_3.1.0.1225.exe-- this is the last Evernote version that could import EverNote 2.x databases. EN2Export: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12760413/EN2Export.zip-- stand alone utility that converts EverNote 2.x databases (.enb) to modern EverNote database (.exb). Currently it converts HTML notes only, all other EN2 note types are skipped. I may add support for other formats if someone needs it.

I'm pretty sure upgrading to the current version is possible but there is one (maybe two) intermediary installations required due to database changes along the way. Contact customer support and they should be able to provide you the details and earlier version(s) first needed.

It would be very, very nice if Evernote would add this ability. For web clippings especially I would say 9 out of 10 times the algorithm grabs a different image than I want so I don't find them very meaningful. I do like them for some notes so I still mostly use snippet view but the view would be much more useful if we could select the image displayed.

I think that would work. First you would create the new account, then delete the newaccountname.exb file that was created. Copy in your backup .exb file and then change that file name to newaccountname.exb. I haven't tried it but it seems like it should work. Would be an interesting test.

I've used CutePDF and PDF-XChange. Going from memory, I don't think CutePDF (free version) allows encryption. PDF-XChange does ... at least the versions I've used.

Minor point - I don't believe this is built into EN Windows, like it is for EN Mac. You can do it in EN Windows but you must first have installed a pdf print driver.

Restoring a single note does take a few steps but is really not that difficult. Fortunately, I've only needed to do that once. I have had to replace a bad HDD a couple of times and have moved the database over to a new laptop a few other times and have found moving the .exb file painless. I'm not following your comment below. Tags, notebooks and stacks moved over just fine, as I recall. I haven't had to do this recently. I don't know if tag hierachies are maintained since I don't use those.

As a Windows user I just back up the .exb. Everything, including local notebooks, is included.

Am I confusing his request? Maybe. I don't know mapjr and can only respond to how he worded his comment and yes (surprisingly) some people do think it is that easy. If you read the last line in my post I was agreeing that it would be a welcome addition. I wasn't discouraging the request at all. Encrypted notebooks is high on my want list too.

With all due respect you are confusing the effort to add a UI control with the effort in creating the underlying code required to carry out the function. Changes would be required for each client that EN supports as well as server side changes to the service. Notebook encryption would also require some user behavior education since encrypted notebooks would no longer be indexed by the service and users would need to understand how this may change their search behavior. Long story short, this is nontrivial but would be a welcome addition to the EN service.

Personally, I'm at EN terror level yellow ... or is it orange, *****, I never can keep those straight. For Windows users ON does seem to be the only other current viable option. I was a past user and just really didn't like the interface but I'm adaptable and will use whatever provides me the most benefit. I was an EN user back in the endless tape days and I didn't like that interface either, but for me the good outweighed the bad. Even with the current crop of problems and concerns, for my usage, the good still outweighs the bad but the balance is starting to get awfully close. Here's hoping that EN can get the train back on the track and pointed in the right direction. Never expected c-r-a-p to be in the foul language filter

Sorry to hear about the continued problems. If it is any (tiny) consolation, I appreciate you and the few other large account holders taking the wind burn on this one and reporting your problems. It has caused me, and likely others, to scale back our usage and avoid (at least for now) some of the grief that you have been experiencing.

I experienced the local notebook issue and view it different from this current problem. If I remember correctly (iffy) this crept into one of the early v5 betas. Back then I downloaded betas the day they came out. To Evernote's credit they jumped on that one fast. I received a PM from one of the developers and they worked with me until a fix was confirmed in a later beta. I don't think this problem ever existed on a GA version. My take away from that was I wait now and check forum reports before trying a new beta. Remember those nice little icons we had to distinguish between local and sync'd notebooks? Well that was how I first noticed the problem. I noticed a local notebook had the sync icon next to it. Those very helpful icons have since been removed