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Works on Android if you use a search like "-tag:Archived". You'd make a saved search / shortcut for this,obviously.

My trips to the emergency room make for beautiful art. How does that fit into your analogy? (I may just be being a dick here) Fits my analogy just fine!

Sure -- choosing the thumbnail is certainly the topic here, not getting sidetracked into discussions of resizing images in Evernote (the subject of other, impassioned topics elsewhere in the forums). Emerick from Evernote has certainly contributed, in this thread (see https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/18482-choosing-a-thumbnail/?p=92194 and forward) information as to what's going on with respect to how Evernote automatically chooses a thumbnail (like any rule of thumb *cough*, it's not perfect), but I don't recall ever seeing any explanation as to why they haven't implemented user choice of thumbnail. I'd be curious as to whether there is a technical or philosophical reason as to why they chose that, but beyond curiosity, leaving it at "just because" is good enough for me -- thumbnails aren't a significant part of my Evernote workflow. If they were, I'd just put a single image into notes where it mattered.

Any tool has good uses and bad uses, which may differ among individual tool users. Some people can make beautiful ice sculptures with chainsaws, some can can make trips to the emergency room...

Unlimited reading (something you do with your eyes, evidently) is still allowed in the forums. Unlimited "liking" is apparently not...

At a guess, without being a Mac user, you should try dragging a notebook out of its stack to the top of the list, and releasing it. I searched the web for "macbook air right-click", and found lots of hits -- are they all inaccurate?

Evernote, like lots of software developers listens to its users, but may not choose to implement every request. They've had a couple of security breaches/glitches (hardly "numerous", but nothing recently. They usually talk about such things here in the forums and in their tech blogs, so you can search for this if you're interested. The fact that they've let this topic run on, to whatever effect, on their user forums for a fairly long time says something about them. I'l let you draw that conclusion. I haven't seen any conclusive evidence that any other product is unanimously better than Evernote, though some might be better for some peoples' use cases.

I'm not trying to punish Evernote with large uploads. My hope would be that Evernote is using a variety of analytics. That (possibly) an influx of large image files, or a higher percentage of accounts maxing out their upload limits, or meta data showing significant % increases, would get the attention of a decision maker. Support requests and forum requests are not getting the attention of decision makers. It's a testament to my frustrations, that I would be excited about a long shot idea like this There are certainly legitimate use cases for large-scale imagery (think aerial or satellite photography, for example). Do you really think that pumping large images into your account is going to magically make Evernote think "Gee, maybe we should offer thumbnail choice rather than our funky lest-smallest algorithm"?? I doubt that they'd make the connection, personally. Oh, the OCR might cough a little on the large files, but otherwise, I doubt that they'd take much notice -- it'd have to be a rather large influx to make much difference, with upwards of 100 million users. Evernote staffers (they're often PMs) have certainly joined in the discussion here, so they're aware of the request (and I see it as a legitimate one, for the record). Buf if it's not high priority for them, it's not high priority. *shrug*

And your post is helping exactly whom? If you don't like my posts, why don't you just ignore them? You don't need to be the Forum Scold, you know...

People can put pretty much whatever they want in their Evernote note database. Large images, small images, whatever. I don't see the problem, nor the relation to the actual issue here (choosing your note thumbnail, in case you weren't paying attention). But go ahead and punish Evernote with large uploads if you want -- it only counts against your own upload limit. And no-one else will know about it either, or care, for that matter. And no, resizing images in the Windows client is actually not much of a big deal. You can do it with MS Paint even, or your favorite image editor.

* Users in shared notebooks see the tags that you have put on notes in the shared notebooks. * Users can add tags to notes in shared notebooks; they cannot create new tags in a shared notebook. The tags must already exist in the owner's account (not the user's account). These tags are visible to the notebook owner.

Thanks, northxnortheast -- did this a month ago not hoping for much but it really fixed the problem. What a shame that this command is hidden in the depths of this forum and in the depths of evernote.exe. The reason that they're hidden is that they are really intended to be used in a customer support situation; they're not for casual use. BTW, you don't need the /debugmenu thingie any more. Just hold down the Ctrl key when you click on the Help menu item, and the extra support operations should appear in the menu. Saves you from needing to restart Evernote before accessing the menu.

Wow! Thank Buddha that I upgraded past 640K RAM at last. No, I'm not worried about running out of disk storage any time soon. Actually, now that I think about it, notebook sharing *is* a form of selective syncing, just using multiple accounts. Set up your master account, and only access it from the web or from a device that has enough disk space to handle the notes database, and share the notebooks that you want to a slave account on devices that have limited storage. Done.

I use it every working day, and as I say, it works well for me. 1. You can only add tags to notes that exist in the account the note comes from, and you cannot create new tags in someone else's account. That's by design, per Evernote. Not a big deal for me as I don't create tags all that often any more. To work around it when you need to, you can use the web client as need be. You can maintain duplicate tags in the different accounts, but Evernote handles this situation weirdly, so you may not want to go there (I do, in a few limited cases). 2. Correct. That's sort of the point. You need to think about what you're doing before you implement such a system, but it's not that hard. 3. Correct, and again, that's the point. You claim you don't want your personal stuff laying around when IT comes for your computer; that's how you ensure that that happens. You can claim that the functionality is limited; I'd say that you have to understand the rules that are in place. It works, and it's available now. Better to use that than wait for a feature that may never come.

Easy solution. Have two accounts, one for work, one for personal. If your personal account has work-related notes, put them in a notebook and share with your work account. If you work at home, share your work notebooks with your personal account. This is what I do, and it works fine for me.

Really? Who? Do try to be specific when making vague claims like this. Anyways, yawn. Nothing new to see here. Most of us who are still here accept that hierarchical schemes have some use in this world, and that requesting them is valid, and have said as much. Hardly anyone is actually arguing against Evernote having them. About as far as folks go is to try to see whether those who request them can use tags instead, because that's what's available in the here and now. Short form: if you need hierarchies as your organizational principle, and tags don't do it for you, then you'll need to choose another product at this time. Evernote has the right to choose the design of their product. Users have the right to choose to not use Evernote. After 7 years and 716 posts, that's still valid.

I understand that some people like that sort of thing...

As I say, the web version may be different, particularly the web beta (you didn't specify which one you were referring to). The Windows client should work fine, and I work in this scenario a lot. In particular, if you're having problems with the web beta, you should probably post it in the web beta subforum elsewhere on the site.

They should be able to tag with existing tags in the shared notebook (possibly account). I do this with some regularity, using my Windows clients (can't testify off the top of my head for the web client, but the newer of them is know to be feature-incomplete). What they cannot do is create new tags in the shared account.

My cheeks *were* a little cold this morning (-9F here), but my car does have a seat heater, so no problem.

That's OK, I'm posting shorter to keep the balance...

No problem -- it's a funny role here, being a moderator but not an employee: we can come off as apologists who never want anything changed, which isn't really the case for any of us as far as I know. Believe me, I have a list of changes that I'd like as well. One thing -- we don't have any inside information, so most of what I'd say about why Evernote does this and not that is surmise. As a developer myself, I understand the "sure, I can do that" dynamic pretty well, but I try to temper that because I've been burned by it before. The Minus 100 Points thing was courtesy of a link from Raymond Chen's Old New Thing blog, a daily read (often but not always MS Windows-y and techie, if you like that sort of stuff).

It's not to stop people from asking, mind. But having been around this and other support forums before, it's plain that some folks who post here don't know much if anything about how software development works. It's a little perspective, as I mentioned. Ah, but then again we have the other side of the cliché: "well dagnabbit, it's so easy a second year CS student could do it". It's not the algorithm, per se; the underlying database that Evernote uses on its servers and at least some of its local clients supports Boolean queries. The search syntax thing is separate, and yes, backwards compatibility is important, but probably not insurmountable. But the scale of this would be an issue in the Evernote ecosystem, though at some cost. It's do-able, for sure, but is the cost worth it? That's a fundamental question that software development companies must grapple with. One of my favorite takes on that is Minus 100 Points. Edit: Just to be clear, I never said "it's too hard"; what I am saying is that it may be more costly to implement than Evernote believes is worth it. If that's an "attitude problem", then, uh, OK. I'm not making excuses for anyone -- I'm not doing the work; it's not my company. I've already suggested it, long ago, and if you'll notice what I wrote, I'd be in favor of it (though it's doubtful that I'd use it all that much; I don't seem to need it currently, and I use Evernote pretty much every day at work & at home). I'm offering a little perspective is all. My base feeling is that they're just not all that interested in offering it, though I don't know that for sure. I'm sure that the Evernote folks know and understand all of the points of view around this; they're not going to wake up of a morning and think, "OMG, we forgot to put the Boolean in!!"

?? Either things will get better, or they won't. Tautology levels are high, though threat levels remain stationary. Political metaphorics remain unclear; future cloudy, try again later. "Power users" on edge. As always ("I could be doing this better, what else is out there?"). Font sizes are apparently growing, however...

This would be a great feature, sure, but... ...just for a little bit of perspective, $45 buys you about an hour's salary of a software developer, on the low end. Not including the cost of keeping them in a warm & dry environment with computers and software, plus health care, 401/K, espresso, and other benefits. That ain't much. Even so, I'd guess that if they were going to add boolean search, they wouldn't take this sort of stuff consideration anyways, and it'd just be a feature that everyone, premium and non-premium users alike, would be able to use. Just too complicated and messy to provide two separate search languages. Don't forget that they'd also need to support existing searches in a backwards-compatible fashion. All in all, a pretty big project. Now Evernote does keep track of feature requests in the forum, among other places (and this one is requested fairly frequently), so don't get me wrong, it would be great, but I wouldn't be looking for this feature to magically appear any time soon.