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  1. Thanks for that. But drag and drop from where? Are you talking about using the "File Explorer" thing on the iPad, perhaps with Evernote in a split screen? I never use split screen or the File Explorer thing on the iPad, so I've never done that. I do any major manipulation of notes, or editing, on my computer, then sync. With v10, and no drag-and-drop, where do you point the program to when you tap the "Attachment" button? PDFs don't "exist" as a separate entity on iOS do they? Or do you have to go into, eg Dropbox, or Documents app, for example, to find them first? I've never thought about trying to do stuff like that - I always do it on the computer. Learn something new every day
  2. Thanks for this. I'm a bit confused though: are you talking about just ADDING a PDF to an already created text note, for example? How do you do that in Evernote on iOS? I can add a PDF to the database AS a note at any time, even by just emailing into Evernote (or, apparently, Notejoy). And I can add a PDF to an already created note in Evernote on the Mac or the PC, as they both deal in "files". But iOS doesn't really do the files thing much at all - so I'm not sure how you'd add a PDF to a pre-existing note? Would be delighted to learn how to do that on my iPhone or iPad. The storage limit is, admittedly, a bit spartan - I think Notejoy needs to up its game there, but perhaps they've suddenly been thrust into the spotlight from being a fairly niche product, but the Evernote update débâcle may prompt them to increase their server capability?
  3. The CEO has said it will be within a month, the sooner the better. I got the impression that they are very keen to step into the Evernote breech, so it's in their own interest to get that function up and running a.s.a.p.
  4. Haven't tried that, as I'm still on the free version. OCR is a feature of all the paid plans (even the cheapest at $4/month), allowing search inside PDFs, images, etc. If anyone tries it before I do, I'd love to hear how quickly it works. With Evernote, it's not unusual to have to wait until anything from a couple of hours up to the next day for OCR to happen server-side. Would love to know how long it takes with Notejoy.
  5. I don't think it does - yet. But they seem VERY keen to cooperate with user requests, and also to plug the gap left by Evernote's backwards moves, so I suspect if you want them to look at that, I think you go to "Feature Requests" or something like that and ask for it in there. I'm now at the point where I'm ready to move from the free version of Notejoy to a paid plan. I'm very impressed with both the apps and also the company. The comparison of attitudes between Evernote and Notejoy towards users is a stark contrast.
  6. I'll look into that - I just got the link from the pop-up menu at bottom left of my copy of Notejoy, where it says Refer Notejoy or something like that. There's a button to copy the link, and that was it. If there IS some sort of referral reward, I'll declare it.
  7. For those, like me, who have become disgruntled Evernoters (in my case, Premium since mid-2008), and who have been sorely disappointed with these latest "upgrades" to v10 on all platforms, I've been searching for a suitable alternative. I've been looking for something that does what Evernote has traditionally done well - act as a brain/memory extension. I've played with Notion, DevonThink, OneNote, Apple Notes, Roam Research, and a few others. None of these quite fits the bill as a close Evernote replacement, either on my Macs, on my work Win10 PC, my iPad, or my iPhone. In each of those, something is missing - eg offline notes and notebooks, ability to email INTO your account, or email a note OUT OF your account, etc etc. I have now come across the app which comes closest by far to the spirit of the golden years of Evernote. Check out Notejoy. No, I'd never heard of it either, until somebody among all the Evernote disgruntled on Twitter mentioned it, and I've been giving it a try. They are due to release a direct Evernote import utility in the next month, and they are just about to add the feature of being able to email a note to somebody else. You can already email anything you want INTO Notejoy. I've been on real-time chat with one of their team, and they seem extremely responsive and keen to get more widely known, and to fill in the gap left by the demise of Evernote as we knew it. From what I've seen so far, in about a week of playing with it, it really does seem about as close as I've got to a true Evernote replacement. In addition, it DOES allow you to have video clips in notes, unlike Evernote where most of my clips that contain video are stored as either a blank frame or just a URL. Check out Notejoy - I have no affiliation with the company whatsoever. I hadn't even heard of them until a few days ago. https://notejoy.com/?r=3dbadf18dbff EDIT: Extra disclaimer - I just discovered that the referral link above carries a small credit towards Notejoy subscription if it results in somebody else joining, which I didn't know when I posted the above. Hence this extra disclaimer. But don't let that put you off (it's actually a good thing). Just overnight (in my time zone) they added the ability to directly email notes to other people, who do not need Notejoy to receive and read them. https://notejoy.com/releases?id=261
  8. For those, like me, who have become disgruntled Evernoters (in my case, Premium since mid-2008), and who have been sorely disappointed with these latest "upgrades" to v10 on all platforms, I've been searching for a suitable alternative. I've been looking for something that does what Evernote has traditionally done well - act as a brain/memory extension. I've played with Notion, DevonThink, OneNote, Apple Notes, Roam Research, and a few others. None of these quite fits the bill as a close Evernote replacement, either on my Macs, on my work Win10 PC, my iPad, or my iPhone. In each of those, something is missing - eg offline notes and notebooks, ability to email INTO your account, or email a note OUT OF your account, etc etc. I have now come across the app which comes closest by far to the spirit of the golden years of Evernote. Check out Notejoy. No, I'd never heard of it either, until somebody among all the Evernote disgruntled on Twitter mentioned it, and I've been giving it a try. They are due to release a direct Evernote import utility in the next month, and they are just about to add the feature of being able to email a note to somebody else. You can already email anything you want INTO Notejoy. I've been on real-time chat with one of their team, and they seem extremely responsive and keen to get more widely known, and to fill in the gap left by the demise of Evernote as we knew it. From what I've seen so far, in about a week of playing with it, it really does seem about as close as I've got to a true Evernote replacement. In addition, it DOES allow you to have video clips in notes, unlike Evernote where most of my clips that contain video are stored as either a blank frame or just a URL. Check out Notejoy - I have no affiliation with the company whatsoever. I hadn't even heard of them until a few days ago. https://notejoy.com/?r=3dbadf18dbff EDIT: Extra disclaimer - I just discovered that the referral link above carries a small credit towards Notejoy subscription if it results in somebody else joining, which I didn't know when I posted the above. Hence this extra disclaimer. But don't let that put you off (it's actually a good thing). Just overnight (in my time zone) they added the ability to directly email notes to other people, who do not need Notejoy to receive and read them. https://notejoy.com/releases?id=261
  9. Thanks for the suggestions - appreciated. I'm currently trying DevonThink, Apple Notes, and Notion. But today I came across one I'd not heard of, and it looks very promising. It's called Notejoy. It does do offline notes on the Mac and Windows, but not yet on mobile devices (I need them there too) - but that is coming. Of the ones I'm trying, so far, Notejoy is looking the most appealing. https://notejoy.com/ and https://notejoy.com/features
  10. I have Notion installed, and have imported my Evernote database to it. But I'm trying to run the two in parallel until I'm confident in Notion before severing the Evernote umbilical cord. My Mac EN is v7.14 - not upgrading what works - but my iOS versions upgraded automatically, and are screwed as per the previous posters on this thread. However, Notion does NOT support local or offline notebooks, and I frequently do NOT have an Internet connection, so absolutely need to have those notes stored locally on my devices (all of which have loads of space on them). Also, no email forwarding into Notion, no OCR (I store a lot of PDFs of scientific papers), and several other missing features. On the plus side, the Notion team seem fairly keen to fill in those gaps at some stage, as they are very aware of the grumblings about Evernote's "upgrades" and the potential for a whole new population of Notion users, but who expect Evernote features. The other 'problem' I have with Notion is that they have two different searches, one in a search box above the list of notes - but which only searches note titles. The other, called Quick Find, is on the side menu and will search note contents. These need to be combined like Evernote's search, or maybe swapped around so that the intuitive search box - above the list of notes - is the one that searches within note contents. It's not a seamless transition, for sure, and it will take some time before I have the confidence to say good bye to Evernote, having been a Premium user almost from the beginning.
  11. I take "Save data at logout" to mean exactly that - it saves the data to the Evernote servers when you log out. However, I suspect what the OP may be referring to is Offline notebooks. When he talks about "entire database downloaded locally", I'm assuming he's talking about all notebooks downloading onto the local device so that it can be used offline. I'm not on the new version - I'm sticking with v7.14 - but I gather that offline notebooks ARE still supported, but LOCAL notebooks aren't supported any more. I find that very confusing, but from what I've been able to work out, offline notebooks still sync when you're online, but local notebooks don't. So what Evernote has done is take away the ability to have true local notebooks, for stuff you don't need or want to sync to the servers, but kept the ability to download notebooks for use offline. I think....
  12. I'll give that one half a "Phewww!" Very confusing terminology there. Yes, most of what I need are OFFLINE notebooks - which I call local. True LOCAL notebooks, that are not synced, are also needed though, for example on my office iMac, I don't need or want all my personal stuff, but I DO need and want all my work-related stuff (eg journal references and clips). I keep most of those in a true LOCAL notebook that never syncs to the EN servers, but gets backed up on my regular scheduled backup routine (twice a day) to a local and a LAN drive. However, I also see from a couple of other posts that the Web Clipper is not working, and I rely on this to clip journal articles or sections of them. So I'll be staying on v7.14 with all updates turned off. Seems to me that Evernote don't have a rigorous alpha, beta, and gold release testing program in house or with their beta users. Can you imagine somebody like Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, Cisco, etc releasing something that is as pre-alpha and broken as these new versions of Evernote?
  13. WHAT??? Local notebooks NOT supported? Did I read that right? So my iPhone XS Max with 512GB of RAM, and my iPad Pro with 256GB RAM are now useless on a plane, for example? Or anywhere where I do NOT have an Internet connection? Why on earth would you deprecate local notebooks? My entire several thousand notes are all locally stored on each device, as I do a lot of travelling, and I am frequently in places with no Internet connection. This is Australia, NOT the USA. In the USA you might have always on, always available Internet - but we don't. That is why I do NOT have any subscriptions for services that rely ONLY on Internet connections. My local notes and notebooks in Evernote go with me everywhere, and I can work on a plane, a train, or even on our back paddock which also has zero Internet. That is a very USA-centric and urban attitude, that there is always Internet available. But you have users all over the world. You MUST bring back offline notebooks and notes. Evernote is a useless boat anchor until you do, for those of us who do NOT live with ubiquitous wifi or net connections. That change alone is a disaster and a deal breaker, even though I've been a Premium user almost from when Evernote first started. In the meantime, I'm turning off all updates to Evernote, especially having been bitten by the iOS v10 "updates" which are still an ongoing disaster area...!
  14. Now that you mention it, I'm a bit confused about exactly WHAT the OP reported. I read it as the notes had disappeared from the Web version of EN. The fact that they were still in his Mac OS version may have been just luck that it hadn't synced the deletions from the server, perhaps? The web version would be looking directly at what's on the cloud server, wouldn't it? So I can't see HOW notes can disappear from there without also disappearing from the Mac/Windows/iOS/Android versions too - once they've synced. Bit of a mystery - but Shane seems to be on the case, so I'll keep my iOS updated versions disconnected until I hear that this problem, among others, has been definitively fixed.
  15. Why not? Surely, if you deliberately delete a note in ANY version of the app, iOS, Mac, Windows, whatever, it will delete off the server. That's usually what you intend to do. So it seems entirely possible that if one version of the app - say the iOS version - is randomly deleting notes, they would get deleted off the cloud server too. Then, next sync of your desktop app, they've gone. I've stopped using my iOS versions of the app and disconnected them, until the problems have been fixed. This is a right royal pain for me, but I'd prefer to live with the limitation of only using my Mac app rather than have the iOS versions of the app corrupt my notes, which I've been accumulating since almost as soon as Evernote started.
  16. i DID know what you meant. A comma after "released" would have fixed it. Sorry - no offence intended. It was just funny - sounded like "Back To The Future" stuff.
  17. "Will try 10.0.3 that just got released tomorrow." Interesting ambiguity there, PE - sounds like you're forecasting the future Yup - I know what you meant, but I had to read it twice - had a chuckle
  18. Thanks for the reply, Shane. However, couldn't you put a different version number on v8.24.6 or whatever the previous version was, and call it v10.1 or something, that would allow the App Store (and iOS) to read it as a newer version, even though it's just the repackaged previous version? Then we could backgrade, work happily while you guys fix all the bugs without the time pressure, then upgrade to the new version (which would need to be numbered one higher than the pseudo-version 10.1 or whatever) when it's all sorted out. I'm sure you have a long enough list of bugs already from these forums to be working on it for some time to come, and would prefer not to have the time pressure from all of us who use EN as critical parts of our workflows.
  19. Really??? Surely you're kidding? You're suggesting that we can actually USE this thing? For what, exactly? I can't clip a note from either Safari (or any other browser) or Flipboard, which is a large part of what I use Evernote for. It simply does not work. The note never gets to Evernote, not even on the same device. It just disappears into thin air. So how can we just get on with exploring it, when it doesn't even work at what it's supposed to do? We need the previous version - it worked! That would then buy time for the EN team to sort out the mess of this release BEFORE releasing it again.
  20. I agree. When one has so much invested in a program - and I'm talking about content, not money - then when that program becomes unusable, as this new iOS release is, I'm quite OK with posting and reading a few rants. This new iOS version is a disaster. I've been a Premium subscriber almost since Evernote started, and have tolerated many bad updates. But this one is the worst by far. It has rendered both my iPad and iPhone versions of Evernote totally useless, and I've actually taken them offline now for fear of corrupting my main Mac version (v7.14) which continues to work just fine. But that is not how it is supposed to be..... Come on Evernote - get your act together, give us back the previous version to get us all back working again, and to give you time to sort out the mess and fix all the bugs. But properly, this time...
  21. Same here, again. If I go to clip an article, on the iPad or the iPhone (both running latest iOS14), the "Share to" function simply does not work. I "clip" the article from Safari or Flipboard, and I get the clip dialog asking me to input a title (as I've said elsewhere - I don't want to be typing titles in while I'm just clipping articles on the fly). Then when I tap on "Save" - nothing happens except that window disappears. The article/website/whatever is NOT synced to Evernote - not even to the local Evernote on the same device. This is seriously broken, and despite CEO Small's comments that they're releasing the updated iOS version "because it's ready" - it is nowhere near ready. We desperately need to back-grade to v8 latest, even if it is given a different version number to let iOS overwrite the newer version with it. The current release is totally unusable. I've been a Premium subscriber almost since EN started, and have suffered through numerous "upgrades" in the past, but this is by far the most serious failure. If anyone from Evernote is actually monitoring these forums, PLEASE urgently give us back the previous version that worked, to allow you to fix this current badly broken release before re-releasing it.
  22. Agree completely. They need to give the previous version a new version number so that the App Store will let it overwrite the broken version 10 as an "update", I think. This one is nowhere near ready for release - not even as a public beta.
  23. I know the sequence of syncing. And new notes that I've tried to add using "Share" to Evernote, from both iPhone and iPad (both on iOS14) with the new iOS version of Evernote are NOT on the server at evernote.com ... The device<>server syncing is not happening. Even the pane that comes up on trying to share (the one with "Type a title" in it, which I really don't want to be doing while I'm saving clips on the fly) disappears way too quickly when I tap on "Save". Previously there was a delay while the Clipper "sucked up" the web page, article, whatever. But now it doesn't seem to do that. I've tried clipping and adding 20 - 30 different notes, from full web pages, to simplified article to selected text, etc. And NONE of them is on either the Evernote server or on any other device, including my Mac.
  24. Same problems here with the new iOS version on both an iPhone and iPad, both running iOS14.
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