monkeygrip

oh. that is a gem 😉 i absolutely do not want hand holding to be part of my user experience. this may sound strange but i want tools that are dangerous cause they are the ones that give you power and control over your data to do what you want.

thank you @agsteele @gazumpedi just discovered this. i had no idea it was available. as long as it syncs eventually i'll deal with it. see, i don't really "work" in evernote so i am kind of getting the gist that maybe the direction EN is going is to get people into evernote and have them keep working in evernote. and that really doesn't mesh with my needs. which is fine, i don't feel overlooked but i do feel left out with things like the 50 notes limit while we get a home screen with widgets. tbh i was initially insulted with the 50 note warning and that's why i came off like i did. i just want a dumping ground for my bookmarks, important documents, images, pdf's, zip files, and the occasional note i create from scratch. and most of all a flexible system for organizing that can be easily adapted if i decide to organize differently in the future.i've stuck it out this long and i'm probably not going to jump ship like i was thinking yesterday. notion is overkill, standard notes is just weird, joplin feels like evernote 2010, which was good in 2010 but it's a little simplistic 2022. apple notes, not going to go there, obsidian i really like because i am fond of plain text, but it's not good on mobile and quality clippers are few. it to is kind of overkill and TO hands on. dendron, foam, etc. i've tried them all i think at this point. i think i have just about exhausted myself and vented my frustrations. sorry.

i can understand that it might be a limited use case BUT over time i would think that more and more tools would be added for users to interact and work with their data. a long time gripe of mine, that we don't need to go over, it's an example. why has their never been a tool to find and delete duplicates? it shouldn't be that hard, EN's got big brains. one thing i was brainstorming was export for evernote, import into another app and work with it as a database which probably has a standard tool to remove duplicates 😉 then reimport back into evernote. that's pretty lofty but that's the kind of stuff user's shouldn't even have to think of to work with their notes. exciting post edit: i found my solution, Evernote Legacy. why didn't you just say that? lol

i knew it was possible before i started the thread. it was not hard at all. but all this went right over your head..... why do i have to do command line kung-fu to get to MY data? why does evernote limit features to so many notes? it feels like evernote is just serving up reasons to bail. and i don't want to leave, i have all these integrations, scripts, etc. i've built up 22 years of my life in here so pardon me if i am a little touchy over my notes and data. in closing, you are one of the most toxic users i have come across in a long time. go outside and eat some fruit.

good idea, thank you. i was starting to heated. and that's not my goal. i actually over estimated. i have 8,300 notes dating back to 2008. for backup purposes i started tagging notes by year, 2008, 2009, etc. then export notes this notes by year. when i export my enex it's about 30gb. (i wish there was a way to scan for duplicates, but that's for another day.) i apologize to you

if people complaining about the current state is a sign of success, i really got to shake my head. and that's regardless if the feedback is positive or negative. i have no time on my hands to be in this forum keeping my fingers on the pulse of evernote's dev cycle and features. to me the past few years have been trying to put lipstick on a pig. the home screen is of absolute no use to me. if others like it more power to them i am glad they are getting the features they are finally getting features they want. i'm not bitter about that or whining that time could be better sent. i'm no dev. i am just a long time user that feels knee capped. i have 10,000 notes and i can't tag more than 50 at a time? i mean come on. in closing seeing that your level 5 status kinda gives you a product ambassador title, your tone was just off. i know mine is slightly abrasive but i am a customer and you are company representative. you should have just given me the corporate jargon, "i'm sorry for ________. i'll be sure to pass the issue onto the devs."

i know this has probably been beat to death but what's another thread gonna hurt. just why? what has kept me with evernote since 2008 is the mass managing of thousands of notes and clips. well it's pretty pointless when you can't even tag for than 50 notes at a time. this has to be on purpose because it's so asinine. while we are at it, notion released in 2016. evernote released in 2000. evernote had a 6 year jump on notion and nothing has really changed when i think about it in evernote. i have been going back and forth for the past few years wondering if i should migrate, but it's getting harder to accept these design flaws. and i emphasize design flaws because after 22 years of development we can't apply tags to more than 50 notes.

i got evernote support to solve it here. somewhere along the way my default vpn server got changed. i tried a couple of different servers and it started working again. i have a hard time accepting this as it feels like a workaround instead of true solution. reason being, i'm pretty computer literate but if i imagine a regular user trying to fix it on their own is doubtful. oh well. now to start a crusade over the 50 note limit BS. i think i am jumping ship over it.

something happened in the background servers that's causing this i think. and the change must have changed within the last month i'm imagining. also i haven't had to turn VPN off for any other sites during authentication. i'm gonna contact support like you said. this is a repeatable with consistent behavior.

i have been using surf shark VPN for years and have had no issues with evernote. about a week ago i went to connect another app and the evernote authentication popup was blank and never loaded correctly. i then went to login into the web app, same thing, entered username and pass, it went to a white window and sat there. i then logged out of the desktop app and tried to log back in and still the same white window. first i made sure all my content blocker extensions were disabled but still same behavior. also logging in from my phone was no issue. i uninstalled evernote and the clipper and reinstalled to no avail. then i tried turning off my VPN and BAM, no issues across the board. this is something new that i've never seen. no apps have had any problems with surf shark all this time.

ahh ok. how do you troubleshoot errors like

How do I get my entire library, files and all. thank you