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BurgersNFries

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  1. IMO, you're overtagging. IMO, some folks "overtag". Often, tags are not needed if you use descriptive titles, some tags, some notebooks/stacks & keywords. I have over 62,000 notes & have never reached the 250 notebook limit. I'd guess less than half my notes have any tags at all. Probably only about 1/3 of my notes have tags. Those that do have tags normally have only 1-3 tags. IE, all my bills are in Evernote. Although they are in a "bills" notebook, I can quickly & easily find my Cox cable bill from June 2009 by searching ALL notes because the title of that note includes the vendor (Cox) and the date of the bill in YYYYMMDD format. So a simple search of intitle:cox intitle:200906* will quickly find the ONE note which is the bill I'm looking for from over 62,000+ notes. And I didn't even use a tag. You can also net the tags for organizational purposes only. This allows you to collapse the top tier so the nested tags do not show up. Or even the "hide unassigned" tags may be helpful.
  2. Evernote certainly does respect their users. Just because they don't do something you want them to do doesn't mean they are disrespecting you. A company is not a democracy. Those in charge have to make choices & they have chosen to not make a Linux client. And lastly, they are not dictating (or even trying to dictate) what OS you use.
  3. IIRC, this discount was for a premium account & was specifically for a limited time frame (three months, IIRC.) Rather like a trial magazine subscription or a trial of a software app. So it's not like the users were totally unaware that this was not a lifetime deal. Having said all that...Evernote is...FREE! Premium account is optional. So I'm not really sure what there is to complain about.
  4. No, content is not trapped in Evernote. Exporting to html is the best way to get information out of Evernote. http://discussion.evernote.com/topic/42066-copy-all-evernote-notes-to-google-drive/
  5. Please search the board on linux. Evernote has no plans to make a linux client but other options are discussed.
  6. It's great that Springpad works well for you. OTOH, for some (like say, me) the features that EN has that Springpad does not far outweigh being able to select a thumbnail. That's why there's chocolate & vanilla.
  7. Windows is renowned for not fully deleting files/folders when uninstalling an app. For future reference, Revo uninstaller is the best way to workaround this. However in this case, you don't need to uninstall EN. And it's great you prevented syncing. As long as the notes on the web client are correct & you have no unsynced notes (including any local notebooks) all you should need to do is fully exit EN on your computer, including any elephants in the system tray, locate all your-user-name.exb files on your computer (there will be at least one), rename them (I would not delete them until you're certain everything is fixed) & reinvoke EN. It will then require you to be connected to the internet & will require you to provide your account login credentials. (If it doesn't do this part, then EN found an exb file you didn't rename, so stop, exit EN & find it before continuing.) It will create a new exb file & download all your notes from the EN servers. If you have any unsynced notes (including local/non-synced notebooks), please search the board on backup restore local For info on how to migrate them. I would also suggest you start making your own backups of the EN database as well. There is a lot of information on the board already on the topic.
  8. First, you have no idea of the difficulties involved. Second, AFAIK, EN hasn't even said they will do this or when. So I'm guessing sharing stacks is still not going to be available tomorrow. Or next week. Or even next month.
  9. No one here is saying Evernote is "good enough" & certainly not Evernote. They are regularly updating their clients & adding or increasing features. However, a feature that is important to you but does not exist in Evernote does not immediately qualify it as a "serious flaw". Statements like that demonstrate a certain amount of naivete. The forum is littered with similar thoughts on totally different features such as sub-notebooks, lan syncing, manually ordering notes, etc, etc. etc. Some users even go to the extent of claiming to know adding a particular feature is easy to do and/or will increase revenues by a bajillion dollars overnight. (I may be exaggerating that last one a teeny bit.) But even if it was easy, that doesn't mean EN has even decided to add it. It may be something EN has decided not to add. It might be easy to change the color of the EN apps to purple. But maybe they simply don't want to do that. You don't even know that EN hasn't taken a particular feature request very seriously and simply decided against it (for whatever reason(s)).
  10. No one has said this feature would not be useful. And I don't think this feature is really in need of being further defined. This isn't rocket science. However, it's something Evernote has chosen to not implement yet, if at all. It's their company, their product & their choice. If you're insulted & disappointed, that's unfortunate, but we cannot control your feelings. BTW, I'm not a "self professed Evernote Evangelist. Evernote approached me & gave me that moniker. Actually, the only point you've made is that you're annoyed with valid & reasonable answers provided by other users & that you just don't get that, eventhough GM tried explaining it to you. Additionally, you may not be interested in many subsequent posts. But this is a message board, open to all users. You are not able to dictate what type of replies you will get. Furthermore, I suggest we get back on topic. If you have any issues with any users, evangelists or not, please feel free to use the report button that is on every post. Futher discussions on your views of Evernote evangelists will result in thread lock, since this board exists for discussing Evernote, not your opinion of other Evernote users. Thank you.
  11. Or...just see post #2. That's Evernote's recommendation: http://discussion.evernote.com/topic/6002-feature-request-option-to-require-passcode/?p=52934
  12. EN is fully aware that many users want nested notebooks and/or stacks. It's doubtful they will appear any time soon, if ever. Options (tags, keywords, etc) have been discussed at great length already on the board.
  13. A "simple passcode lock" does pretty much nothing except keep out the casual user. IE, a guest in your home who has access to your computer. It won't keep out a hacker. I don't know about a Lastpass hack. I do know Roboform encrypts your data on their servers & they do not have the encryption password, which is a different password than your account password, unless the user is uninformed/lazy & uses the same one for both. IOW, if you forget your encryption password, you have lost your data forever. Roboform cannot send it to you b/c they don't have it. What that means is even if Roboform servers got hacked & someone had access to your Roboform data, they still can't view it unless/until they use a brute force attack to get your encryption password. I would guess Lastpass is similar in that respect, since it's a highly regarded password manager.
  14. Why would you expect Evernote to make "wise choices" on your behalf? You are but one of what was it last count, sixty million plus?, users. They apparently have been making wise choices for a majority of their users. Something that you call "some pretty fundamental usability" is not necessarily what many others would call fundamental. The forum is ripe with feature requests that others call "basic functions" & many of them are different from yours. (More fonts, highlighting, sub-notebooks, lan syncing, blah, blah, blah.) The app may not do everything you want it to do. I know it doesn't do everything *I* want it to do. But the apps & service continue to evolve & become better & better. And there are workarounds that you can use or else find another app that better suits your needs. But to broad brush Evernote as ignoring *you* is silly.
  15. I don't know what being a software dev has to do with this. 95% of people here have been, are or claim to be devs. (shrug) My comment? Impertinent? Perhaps. Accurate? Absolutely. If this is Jeff's comment you're referring to... I urge you to take some time to peruse these forums for items that users think are "basic", count them up, and then reconsider your question... It's also accurate. What you consider to be a "basic" feature does not always coincide with what others consider a "basic" feature. WRT the answer you "wanted"...: It may be surpassed by tasks of a higher priority it may not even be on EN's to do list EN does not publish their roadmap or ETAs So yeah...you may not like it (does that sound better?) but that's the way it is.
  16. I never said it wasn't a legitimate request. Sorry if you don't like my answer. But I post accurate & valid answers. Not just an answer that you want to hear.
  17. They probably can. I don't know. But they probably won't.
  18. No. Stacks cannot be shared. http://discussion.evernote.com/topic/18364-request-sharing-of-stacks/
  19. I would also add that I use Clipmate. So when I need to carry on, if I have a screen grab/text/URL I want to put into an EN note, I'll copy it & then be able to pull it out of Clipmate later, to put into my Evernote note, once the spinning wheel has subsided. The problem I tend to run into is when I forget to go back & do this. ;-)
  20. I've had this issue a lot in the past couple of years. I've submitted several support tickets. I've upgraded my OS (I first started getting this on Win XP Pro SP3 & am now using Win 7 Pro). I've re-downloaded my database entirely from the EN servers twice. (A daunting task, since I have over 55,000 notes & my local database exceeds 35 gb.) I've moved my database out from a Truecrypted container. I've moved my database to a brand new hard drive. I'm also willing to concede part of this is my computer, since I tend to have a lot of apps running at any given time, leave my computer on 24/7 & switch back & forth between apps quite often as I work & although I hate to use the buzzword, I'd have to say I'm pretty much of a power user of my computers & the many apps I have installed on it/them and b/c I occasionally get slow response on other apps. (breath) But EN is the one affected most often (like a bunch of times each & every day) & the one that's the longest lag. But since I don't know of a tool that would better serve me than Evernote does, I tolerate the lags & accept it as SOP, especially given the (relatively) large size of my database & the fact that I regularly add tens of notes pretty much each & every day. But every now & then, the lags do get to the point where my productivity is greatly hindered & that's when I submit another support ticket. I guess I should also add that I augment my PC Evernote usage with my iPad & iPhone via FastEver, FastEversnap & Clever. I've been known to look something up on my iPad with Clever while sitting at my PC, looking at a spinning wheel in the EN app. (shrug)
  21. Evernote reads but does not reply to every thread. Nor do they publish roadmaps or ETAs.
  22. Hi , can you suggest us one application for mind maps that already have the integration feature with evernote? Thanks! What Dave was referring to is the same thing you can do with Word, Excel, video, etc files. You store the file in an Evernote note & then double click on the attachment icon. The associated app will be invoked & open the file. His post is old, so the part about a premium account no longer applies, since free accounts can add any file type now.
  23. I don't know why your knickers are in a knot. But my post that you seemed to take exception to (#35) is perfectly reasonable & helpful.
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