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jefito

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  1. There is no syntax for this, so far as I know. The reference: https://dev.evernote.com/doc/articles/search_grammar.php
  2. You can always make a bookmark for the following URL: https://www.evernote.com/Login.action
  3. Windows? Mac? Android? iOS? Web? Have you bumped up against the Basic account limit of 250 notebooks?
  4. Hey, I had to print out this web site to read these comments!!
  5. All that means is that you're using the web version, in which case I'll move it to a more appropriate forum.
  6. When I right-click on an image in the Evernote for Windows application, it gives me a menu that has "Rotate clockwise" and "Rotate counterclockwise" entries. I've tried it. It works...
  7. Can you provide a screen capture of what you are seeing? Are your chapters in different notes?
  8. Looks like you are using the old Microsoft store version of Evernote. I'd ditch that in favor of the far more capable Windows desktop version. Try this link: https://evernote.com/download
  9. Windows? Mac? Android? iOS? Web?
  10. You didn't say which Evernote client you are using, but nn the Windows client, if you hover over the "Notebooks" item, you see a '+' appear that, when clicked on, allows you to create a new notebook.
  11. I appreciate the clarification, and the comments from @Ian Small as well. I'll echo my original impression -- that this looks like a promising direction for search, a nice balance between ease of use and ability to continue to use the full search language. Beyond that, I was only seeking to clear up some smaller points of UX that weren't present or that I may have missed in the video; nothing major, mainly curiosity. So long as responsiveness is good and the approach translates to other platforms well, I think that this will be a nice improvement all around improvement on a key area of Evernote, namely finding your stuff.
  12. They never said that they were changing the search language that underlies the search UI, so I'm guessing that changes like that are not planned, at least in the short term. If they had intended such changes, they would have announced them, don't you think? I believe that the intent here is to show a new, responsive UI that makes it easier to find things in your note database with simple inputs, and one that will translate well across all of their various platforms. I'm not saying that changes to the search language wouldn't be useful, just that that's not the point here.
  13. I've been saying "laziness is its own reward" for some time. Even my wife agrees with that... usually...
  14. I was thinking more along the lines of the section starting around the 4 minute mark, where they type in "tag:succlent", but I didn't see any suggestions come up. Maybe they were typing too quickly for the suggestions to show up, so hard to tell. It'd just seem that the presence of "tag:" would help to narrow any suggestions for subsequent letters to just tags rather than text or notebooks.
  15. The tag naming thing is is one of the "great" Evernote usability debates: separate tag name (tag:portland tag:food, etc.) vs. combination tag names (tag:portland-food, etc.). I prefer the former; it seems more natural because that's generally how English (my native tongue, German speakers may differ on this )works. We say "little red car" rather than "little-red-car", and the separate tags are more flexible, too: I can describe more things with fewer separate tags, because coming up with combination tags for everything gets, well, combinatoric (mathematically, that is). And that's not to mention the sub-tag ordering thing (which tag do do I make? "car-little-red", "car-red-little", "little-red-car", "red-little-car", etc?). But horses for courses, as they say. If tags can be found via partial matches; e.g., I type "food" and "portland-food" is offered up as a selection, then that's helpful. If it doesn't, then it makes combination tags a lot less useful.
  16. Break yes but remove previous feature NO they do NOT. You mentioned Google in your original example. Google is notorious for removing features, or even entire applications. I can't speak for Apple, but Microsoft, despite being semi-famous for being heroic in terms of providing backwards compatibility (even for wayward program behaviors), also removes and/or drastically alters features too. I'd point to the history of the Windows start menu for one example. You are kidding right? OF COURSE there are rules that why in development world there are STANDARDS, that's why companies use API and code.. if you have no rules well then you are doing it wrong. Not how ANY company (and I work for a development software company) works. I have developers looking at me because they heard me laughing and they are like ???!?! What does he mean 'no rules'.. that's crazy. You can't just make up stuff as you go, but then again that explains a lot for Evernote. If that's how 'cowboys' do it Redood City, well you are off the grid. You made a flat statement about what BETA was ("The idea for BETA is to ADD functionality not start over"), and it was incorrect. There are no industry standards about what goes into a beta release; it's whatever form the company wants to present a product, new or old, merely tweaked or completely rebuilt. Betas are for the purpose of customer evaluation (from the Wiki article: "The process of delivering a beta version to the users is called beta release and this is typically the first time that the software is available outside of the organization that developed it."). That's all beta is. Of course there are rules in software development: internal development standards, rules imposed by the application environment, business rules, you name it. But there is no rule whatsoever that says that a beta cannot be a completely rebuilt application. None whatsoever. You conflated two completely separate issues and drew an incorrect conclusion. Sorry to say, but if your devs are laughing when they look at you, maybe you've got some ketchup on your tie? "But then again that explains a lot for Evernote" : just to be clear, I don't work for Evernote, though I am a software developer. I'll ignore that last bit of your reply, since it really doesn't apply to me, or software development reality as I know it. Cheers.
  17. As far as I know (and I do have a premium/basic with shared notebooks setup between my personal account and work account), a basic user can view notes > 25 MB, but not edit them. I'll try to test this out in my setup.
  18. ?? No, The idea for BETA is to give users outside the building to test and evaluate a new product so as to help ensure that it's ready for release (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle#Beta). That's all. There are no rules as to what goes into the beta product; it can be minor tweaks all the way to a a complete rewrite. No, that's not true at all. They break things all the time, entire subsystems get replaced or rearchitected under the hood and the end users never know the difference, unless something breaks or something was missed. Which happens. Yes, yes, "we" do all of these things sometimes, if need arises, and things getting missed is a definite possibility. It's well known that complete rewrites can be problematic (see e.g. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/) but are sometimes necessary anyways, for any number of reasons (speed or efficiency reasons, requirements changes, availability of new technologies etc.)..You hope that things don't get missed (regressions) but they can, and you deal with them as they arise. Nobody really likes this (well, starting with a clean sheet can be fun and exciting), but it's a reality of the software business.
  19. Yes, so long as you share as "Can edit" or "Can edit and invite". Subscription level doesn't matter in this case; basic users can share for editing too.
  20. Generally the only way is to sort yoru notes by title, and look for duplicates. Helps if you know the titles you are looking for, obviously.
  21. Yes, they do; just clipped something yesterday, and the link to the original page appears in note info as usual. Note that the link does not appear in the body of the note; you have to go to note info to see it.
  22. In the Windows application, if you Shift+Click on the notebook name in the note header, your filter will change to that notebook. Ditto for tags in the note header as well: Shift+Click will add or remove that tag from the current filter. Each of the notebook and tag elements also have a little arrow on their right end that you can click on to do the same thing.
  23. New search looks pretty good -- I'm looking forward to getting my hands on it. This feels like the coming together of a lot of interesting & good ideas that have all come together in a more complete, cohesive design. One thing, and maybe it didn't come out in the demo: when starting with the "tag:" prefix, I didn't see any suggestions come along as "succulent" was being typed. Did I miss that? I would have thought that rather hitting the typo, you should have seen the "succulent" tag in the list so you could pick it directly. I think that that's an important piece to go hand in hand with suggestions for literal text terms; the "tag:" prefix is just a gimme. And the facility for offering suggestions based that match anywhere in the suggestion rather than just the prefix (so that typing "succ" would offer up, say, "unsuccessful" as well as "succulent" suggestions) would be helpful too. Also: as you add new search terms. will it be easy to back out of them without losing the current state of the search box, as in, having added several terms, and after having typed several characters into the search box, can you pop over to the search term display and delete one, and have everything adjust? OK, that was several things, but search is really important.
  24. Ha-ha. Unfortunately the web says that this brewery is closed. I do make it to Durham NC, usually once a year, In those parts, I'd recommend Fullsteam (disclaimer: family connection).. No ducks, though...
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