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  1. "So full of misinformation?" Really? OK. Let's see... NOT a fact. You're flat-out wrong. I just verified both the version (by running "Check for updates") and the export limitation (by performing a selection). The latest version of Evernote for Mac is version 10.59.5—and in THAT version, the export limitation is 50 notes—as shown in my original screenshot. Where do you think I got that screenshot? Furthermore, even if the new limit were 100, my assessment stands: There's NO technical reason to limit export at all—except to deter users from leaving Evernote. So, you have disproven nothing. I never said "zero"! So, you're putting words in my mouth. I said there are about 25 features that I use regularly that are either MISSING or BROKEN. That, my friend, is a fact! I documented most of them at the following link (but found another 5 or 6 later): After submitting that post, I did discover that one or two of those features were located elsewhere. (Some forum members were also helpful.) Still, over the last several months, not one update has addressed the other bugs or missing features. (Unless they've been addressed within the last 2-3 weeks, since I stopped using Evernote.) And over the last 10 years, users have begged Evernote to fix numerous bugs—bugs that have NEVER been fixed TO THIS DAY. Yet, I was expected to go from $70/year to $105/year for an app with 25 missing or broken features. I refuse. Maybe so, but again—there are 25 features that I used on a regular basis that were included in v7, but were REMOVED or BROKEN in v10. "Doing things that Legacy can't" doesn't help me if it doesn't do the things it did previously that I need it to do. If you can't comprehend this simple truism, I cannot assist you with cognition. Good for you! Evernote 10 does NOT work better for me. See my post, linked above—and remember there are 5 or 6 more missing/broken features that I discovered after I posted that. Until three months ago, I was happily using Evernote 7 in macOS Monterey. But as soon as I got a new MacBook running Ventura, I was forced to "upgrade" to Evernote 10, because Evernote 7 is buggy in Ventura. That is when I discovered feature after feature after feature that either no longer worked or was removed from Evernote 10. But since I was running Ventura, I had no choice. I was "stuck" with a stripped-down application. We clearly have different workflows, because for me, Evernote 10 is a disaster. But I'm glad it's meeting your needs! I'm going to assume that you understand that we don't all have identical needs. Your choice of brand of computer or phone is 100% irrelevant and disproves NOTHING in my post. I didn't say that Apple Notes was the solution for everyone! I said Evernote has been crippled. My post was about MY experience and the fact that the Evernote team has artificially limited the number of notes that can be selected and exported—something that's new in v10, because in v7 and before, we could export any number of notes. That is a fact. Your need to use Android phones has absolutely nothing to do with what I've stated here. You may not like my post (or its tone), but you haven't disproven anything I wrote. Best of luck!
  2. A few weeks ago, I posted a list of 20+ features that are broken or missing from Evernote 10, leading to my decision to leave Evernote after 15 years. (That list has since grown to over 25 features.) That, coupled with Evernote's decision to raise the price of Evernote Premium from $70/year to $105/year—despite NEVER fixing bugs—was the last straw for me. And with my renewal due on July 18, I set out to migrate to Apple Notes. It was my goal to export each notebook as a tome and then to import those notebooks into Apple Notes. So, I opened Evernote 10, went to my first notebook, hit ⌘A, and what did I discover? This: This baffled me, because in previous versions of Evernote, I had regularly archived notebooks containing hundreds of notes with one command. So, I opened Evernote 7, and sure enough—you can still export as many notes as you want in one command—even 6,200+ notes (which is what I have). But in Evernote 10, this feature has been CRIPPLED. Since there is clearly no technical reason to limit selecting (and exporting) of notes to 50 at a time, there can be only one explanation: The Evernote team has DELIBERATELY crippled v10 to deter users from leaving Evernote. This is the behavior of the company in whom you've placed your trust—and it's frankly despicable. At the very same time that they've REMOVED and BROKEN feature after feature—while IGNORING our pleas to fix bugs for years and years—they've now deliberately hamstrung the app to discourage us from exporting our notes and going elsewhere. Classy, huh? Now, you're probably thinking: Since Evernote 7 still allows unlimited export, why didn't I simply use Evernote 7? Well, Evernote 7 has a bug (surprise!) that omits the date created and date modified metadata when exporting notes. As such, if you don't need that metadata, it's easiest to export from Evernote 7. But I reply upon that metadata. So, I had no choice but to export more than 6,200 notes from Evernote 10—50 notes at a time. If this post isn't deleted by moderators, you now have an opportunity to decide if this is the kind of cynical company that you want to trust with your data and support with your dollars. I've now fully migrated to Apple Notes, and I'm happy. It's actually a far more robust application than meets the eye. That's Apple: Complexity disguised as simplicity. I've reorganized my notes, cleaned up my tags, cleared out the cobwebs, deleted outdated notes, and I'm thrilled to have my notes in better shape than ever. For free. No more pleading with Evernote to fix bugs that never, ever get fixed—year after year after year. I'm finally done with everything Evernote. Cheers.
  3. As soon as I see the pink elephant image, I instantly know that there's no need to read anything that follows. Thankfully, I'll never need to see it again.
  4. A few weeks ago, I posted a list of 10 features that are broken or missing from Evernote 10. Until recently I was using Evernote 7, because both of my Macs were running Monterey. But upon purchasing a new Mac, I was forced to "upgrade" to Evernote 10, because Evernote 7 is broken in macOS Ventura. At first, I was excited—until I discovered the sheer number of broken or missing features, leaving me flabbergasted. At the time, I was given all sorts of excuses, from both die-hard users and Evernote representatives. The latter claimed that they're "working hard" to bring back features. But why were they removed in the first place? This makes no sense. Developers don't typically remove features, only to claim that they'll put them back "eventually." Well, when is "eventually"? I have work to do today. This, coupled with the fact that we've been BEGGING Evernote to fix long-standing bugs for YEARS and YEARS, to no avail. So now, I'm supposed to just trust that features upon which I rely will be reinstated "someday"? Sorry, Evernote, but you haven't exactly given us great reasons to trust you. Well, since then, I've discovered another 11 broken or missing features—features that I actually use. And as if that weren't enough, I just got the official notice that my membership fee is NEARLY DOUBLING next month. This is the purest insanity I've observed in a long, long time—and it's 100% unacceptable. Well, for posterity, here's my list of 21 broken or missing features (one of which, I've since learned, still exists, but is accessed differently): 1 • Multiple menu commands (such as the commands for sorting options) have been removed, preventing us from using keyboard shortcuts for those features. Instead, sorting can now ONLY be done by clicking on icons. Why remove menu commands? 2 • Transparency in images is now ignored. (And yes, I rely upon transparency.) 3 • The sidebar is now cluttered with items that we can't remove if unneeded (e.g., Tasks, Shared With Me, etc.) taking away valuable space for viewing things I actually use. 4 • The Search field has been moved to the sidebar—which now takes up additional, unnecessary space in the sidebar. The search field was previously located in the upper-right corner (where many other apps' search fields are located). Moving it to the sidebar leaves less room for us to view our actual notebooks! Does ergonomics never get considered anymore? It's as if Evernote's new coders are children who have no clue about application design. 5 • Certain, standard font characters are now inexplicably replaced by emoji. After inquiring about this, I was told it's a "feature" called "automatic emoji conversion." What the actual hell? Who would implement something like this without giving us a way to DISABLE it? Evernote has just "decided" that users no longer need standard characters that have existed for decades, so they're now just replacing them with emoji—without the user's consent. 6 • Horizontal dividers (lines) appear to have been removed. Evernote 7 had two ways of creating these lines: (a) By typing a few hyphens, then hitting return; or (b) There was a dedicated button in the toolbar for adding a horizontal divider. BOTH have been removed in Evernote 10. (I've used these dividers several times a day for years.) (UPDATE: I've since located this feature.) 7 • They've omitted the search field within the Help menu—the one that lets you search for menu commands. This feature has been standard across *all* Mac applications for at least 10 years. They've literally made it more difficult for us to locate menu commands. How is this helpful to anyone? 8 • The ability to choose fonts has been removed, and we're now stuck with default fonts over which we have NO control. Another "brilliant" idea: "Let's take away fonts from the users. No one will notice." 9 • The standard, Apple color picker for text has been removed. For years, I've used specific color-coding in my notes on a daily basis. But no more. Now we're stuck with a handful of colors that Evernote has decided are the only colors we need. "Let's take away the standard, Apple color picker that's existed for decades. No one will notice." 10 • After adding an image to a note, it takes up to 30 seconds for the thumbnail to appear in the snippet to the left. - - - 11 • After deleting a note, it takes up to 30 seconds before the note disappears from the list of notes. 12 • When viewing a note, if we move that note to another notebook, Evernote used to continue displaying that note so we can continue working. Now, when the notebook is changed, the note disappears! We're kept in the previous notebook, and we're shown another note in that notebook. This makes no sense. Under no circumstances should the user be shown a note that he or she didn't specify. The moved note should remain in focus. 13 • Evernote doesn't fully support .webp images. Although you can place one in the body of a note, the thumbnail never appears in the snippet (or appears as a generic, white image)—and it takes as much as 30-60 seconds before it appears, so that's wasted time that you could have spent on finding another image (or converting the original one). 14 • The keyboard short ⌃⌘V to Paste to Evernote is not working. The shortcut brings Evernote to the fore, but no new note with the copied text is created. I used this several times a day! 15 • Evernote 10 is not fully syncing images. I have many notes containing images. In Evernote 10, even though the thumbnails are displayed in the snippets, when I actually view a note on a computer other than the one on which the note was created, it takes a full minute or more for the image(s) within that note to be displayed. This might be tolerable for one note, but imagine needing to view 30 notes; that's 30 minutes of waiting. This is an absolute nightmare. 16 • After replacing an image, the new image doesn't replace the original in the image snippet (the thumbnail image) until after Evernote is quit and relaunched. 17 • macOS services no longer work on Evernote text. For many years, I've used services to manipulate text, among other things. But in Evernote 10, the entire Services menu has been REMOVED! 🤦🏾‍♂️ Way to go, folks! 18 • For many years, the shortcut for calling up the color picker has been ⇧⌘C (another standard keyboard shortcut across many apps, not just Evernote). But now, when I hit that command, my text is indented instead, and no color picker appears. "Let's just change a decade-old keyboard shortcut. No one will notice." 19 • For years, the shortcut for simplifying text formatting in Evernote has been ⇧⌘F. But now, that shortcut does something else. And instead, we now have to click the "More" button, then scroll all the way down to "Simplify formatting." This takes 5x as long as a keyboard shortcut. 20 • The keyboard shortcut ⌘F for searching within a note has been removed. Because who needs a quick search feature? GENERAL NOTE: It seems Evernote's new developers have NO CLUE about the history of keyboard shortcuts and their importance as a fundamentally faster way of interacting with any application. Instead, various keyboard shortcuts that have existed for YEARS have been inexplicably removed (or repurposed), forcing users to have to click on interface elements—a decidedly SLOWER method of doing ANYTHING. ----- Now, with nearly 20 missing or broken features, I'm being told I must pay TWICE what I've been paying—for a crippled app with the promise of new features that I don't need—and NO history of the company even making the effort to fix long-standing bugs. No. Goodbye, Evernote. I've stuck with you—and gladly paid for pro features—for 15 years. But no more. You folks have RUINED Evernote. What a shame. Goodbye.
  5. Thanks for the replies. (For some reason, the forum software has stopped notifying me of replies, even though I'm following the topic.) I'm very glad to learn that this feature still exists. 😊 Ironically, the one method that Evernote support repeatedly gave me—typing three hyphens, then "enter"—still does NOT work for me in Evernote 10 for Mac. That's what led me to ask about this here. What I've since learned does work is either (a) selecting the divider button after clicking the blue "+" button or (b) typing ⇧⌘H—two, reliable methods that Evernote support never mentioned, despite exchanging several email messages on this topic. Thanks again.
  6. Thank you. No, I hadn't seen the reply. (For some reason, the forum is no longer notifying me of replies, even though I'm following these topics.) I'm glad to see that the divider feature still exists—although it's odd that the Evernote-support person who's been corresponding with me about that very issue (a) has repeatedly given me incorrect information about the method for creating dividers, (b) never once mentioned that the button was moved under the blue "+" button, and (c) also failed to mention that dividers can be inserted by typing ⇧⌘H (which I discovered just a few minutes ago). Thanks again for bringing this to my attention. 😊
  7. And they start by removing features that Evernote has had for years? Removing features is their way of "improving upon past performance"? Then, before implementing any vastly noticeable improvements, they increase the price from $70/year to $105/year? And you believe these are good business practices?
  8. I've happily paid for Evernote Personal for many years. I was running Evernote 7 for Mac because many features that I use daily are either broken or missing in later versions. But since my new MacBook Pro runs Ventura, I had no choice but to update to Evernote 10, because Evernote 7 is broken in macOS Ventura. To my utter dismay, I'm now forced to use this crippled version of Evernote. I've been discussing a number of these broken/missing features with Evernote support, and I've been given a cornucopia of excuses and patronizing comments (e.g.,. "we value all user input," etc.). Now, adding profound insult to cruel injury, Apple just informed me that my $69.99 annual Evernote subscription will automatically renew at a WHOPPING $104.99. 😳🤬 For an application that has been ruined. In what ways has it been ruined? Here's what I've discovered (so far): 1 • Menu commands (e.g., the commands for sorting options) have been removed, preventing us from using keyboard shortcuts for those features. Instead, sorting can now ONLY be done by clicking on icons. Why remove menu commands? (I used these many times a day.) 2 • Transparency in images is now ignored. (I used this daily.) 3 • The sidebar is cluttered with items that we cannot remove if unneeded (e.g., Tasks, Shared With Me, etc.) taking away valuable space for viewing our notebooks. 4 • The Search field has been moved to the sidebar—which now takes up additional, unnecessary space in the sidebar. The search field was previously located in the upper-right corner (where many apps' search fields are located). Moving it to the sidebar leaves less room for us to view our actual notebooks! Does ergonomics never get considered anymore? It's as if Evernote's new coders are children who have no clue about application design. 5 • Certain, standard font characters that I use DAILY are now inexplicably replaced by emoji. After inquiring about this, I was told it's a "feature" called "automatic emoji conversion." What the actual hell. Who would implement something like this without giving us a way to DISABLE it? Evernote has just "decided" that users no longer need standard characters that have existed for decades, so they're now just replacing them with emoji—without the user's consent. 6 • Horizontal dividers (lines) appear to have been removed. Evernote 7 had two ways of creating these lines: (a) By typing a few hyphens, then hitting return; or (b) There was a dedicated button in the toolbar for adding a horizontal divider. BOTH have been removed in Evernote 10. (I've used these dividers several times a day for years.) [EDIT: I've been informed that horizontal dividers are still available, though NOT via the method that Evernote support kept telling me (typing three hyphens, then "enter"). I now see that a divider can be entered by clicking the "divider" button under the blue "+" icon. A divider can also be entered by typing ⇧⌘H.] 7 • They've omitted the search field from within the Help menu—a feature that has been standard across *all* Mac applications for at least 10 years. They've literally made it more difficult for us to locate menu commands. How is this helpful to anyone? 8 • The ability to choose fonts has been removed, and we're now stuck with default fonts over which we have NO control. Another "brilliant" idea: "Let's take away fonts from the users. No one will notice." 9 • The standard, Apple color picker for text has been removed. For years, I've used specific color-coding in my notes on a daily basis. But no more. Now we're stuck with a handful of colors that Evernote has decided are the only colors we need. "Let's take away the standard, Apple color picker that's existed for decades. No one will notice." These are features I have relied upon—and have gladly paid for—for many years. But it seems Evernote's new coders have no clue about the history of the application, nor the history of conventions of Mac applications. if they don't need it, they figure no one else does, either. Evernote, we've put up with unfixed bugs for many, many years. The basic functionality continued, and we made the best of it. But this is a bridge too far. You cannot GUT the application of its features—and then have the cojones to ask us to PAY MORE. There's only so much we can take. Unless these issues are addressed—and fast—it appears this spells the end of my relationship with Evernote, an application that I have used and loved for many years. This is just too much. I will not pay MORE for an app that you have RUINED. Sure, I'm just one user. But I suspect I'm not the only one who feels this way. This. Will. Not. Work.
  9. I now have an ever-growing list of features that I've used for years that have inexplicably been removed from Evernote 10 for Mac. One such feature is the insertion of a horizontal line (divider) into the body of a note. For more than a decade, I've use this feature in most of my notes. In Evernote 7, such a line could be added by typing a few hyphens and hitting return. There was also a dedicated button that would enter a horizontal line: That button has been removed in Evernote 10. I don't care about the button itself, as long as there's some way to enter a horizontal line. (I always used the hyphen method anyway.) But as far as I can tell, this feature no longer exists in Evernote 10 at all. In recent conversations with Evernote support, a representative has repeatedly asserted that this feature remains in Evernote 10. He wrote: "Regarding the divider lines, you can create a horizontal divider by adding three hyphens (-) and pressing Enter on your keyboard. This should create a horizontal divider inside your note." After I again asserted that the feature no longer works in Evernote 10, he suggested I delete and reinstall my Evernote database. Knowing a bit about how software works, I was extremely skeptical that this would change anything, but I did my due diligence and performed the steps he requested. As predicted, nothing changed. Bottom Line: Is the horizontal-line feature working in Evernote 10 for anyone here? Or is this Evernote representative ill-informed about the product that he represents?
  10. Ensuring that newer versions of software retain all features of previous versions is not "impossible." The very statement is illogical. Most developers actually prioritize feature parity. It's unusual for features to be removed from newer versions of most applications. That's literally why it's called "development." And when circumstances dictate that a feature be removed, most developers inform customers and explain the removal. (Needless to say, it's more likely that the transparency bug is an inadvertent omission.) One could be forgiven for forming the impression that it appears to escape you that others' needs might actually differ from yours. Perhaps a graphic designer stores images with and without transparency and needs to be able to see—at a glance via the thumbnails—which versions are which. Perhaps someone else stores or collects icons and wants them correctly displayed. Someone else could be gathering images for a presentation on transparency techniques. Scenarios abound. We remain grateful that it's not up to you to decide which features are necessary or unnecessary.
  11. I've been using Evernote 7 because I prefer it. But it's broken in Ventura, so I've installed Evernote 10—and already there's an obvious bug: Evernote 10 doesn't properly display transparency in images (but Evernote 7 does). In all this time, has no one at Evernote noticed this bug? Please see the attached images. In Evernote 7 (green box), the Finder images with transparency correctly "float" over the background. But in Evernote 10 (red box), transparency is ignored, and a white border is drawn around the Finder images. Why would functionality be removed in a newer version?
  12. As usual, you're unhelpful. It is not "standard behavior." I have never seen this occur in any app except Evernote for iOS. In what other apps does the word "Snapshot"—or other words—appear in text fields, then disappears from the text field while remaining in the clipboard? If you believe this to be acceptable behavior, please provide specific examples. Furthermore, in Evernote for iOS, if you use the backspace key to remove the word "Snapshot," and THEN type, autocorrect behaves as expected and works correctly. (Image attached.) Regardless, in what universe is it considered "standard behavior" that typing a new word does NOT properly replace the previously selected word? How is it useful for the highlighted word to disappear from the text field, but not from the clipboard? That's preposterous. We post issues here because the behavior does not comport with what is expected, and we're hopeful that Evernote will address these issues. If YOU don't have a problem with an behavior that clearly bothers other users, it would be more helpful for you to simply remain silent. Telling us that YOU don't think it's a big deal helps no one.
  13. Scanning a LOT of documents (Mom's old recipe cards), and I've discovered a 100% reproducible bug: After scanning, each note is given the default name "Snapshot," which of course I'm replacing. If I double-tap to select the word "Snapshot," then begin typing the desired name, the word "Snapshot" is cleared from the title field—but it is NOT cleared from the clipboard. As a result, iOS autocomplete breaks because whatever I type is preceded by the word "Snapshot." In the attached example, I highlight "Snapshot," then start typing "Potato." In the autocomplete-suggestion area, you'll see there are no usable suggestions, because Evernote for iOS thinks I've typed "SnapshotPotato." So, again, while "Snapshot" has been removed from the title field, it remains in the clipboard, breaking autocomplete. While this may seem like a small inconvenience, it would be—if I were scanning one or two documents. But when scanning literally hundreds of documents, this bug is infuriating. Under any other circumstances, typing "Pota" would cause the iPhone to auto-suggest "Potato" (and the same for any other words). But this Evernote bug is preventing me from using auto-suggested text, forcing me to type all words manually—hundreds and hundreds of times.
  14. Exactly. I needed to quickly capture some information, but my workflow was *interrupted* by this sheet. No matter how "helpful" it may be to some users, and no matter how infrequently the page appears, if it appears at an in opportune time, that's one time too many. Any feature that potentially interrupts a user's workflow should be optional.
  15. In Evernote for iPhone (latest version), I'm now getting occasional pop-ups at launch, showing a summary of my activity for the last month. I don't want them. How do I disable them?
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