JohnOem

Rjory,  Do you have a previous version, or the Legacy EN installed along with the new V10?

I have found that when I have ran the older version it has left processes running after I terminate it.  Then the Version 10 quite often will not load correctly, if at all.

Once I go into TaskManager and end the Evernote processes that are still running, then V10 launches and loads correctly.

On 12/7/2019 at 3:30 AM, Atif said:

Great convo folks and thanks for the kudos. 

A few points to clarify about my Evernote usage. 

• I use Evernote on my mac, windows, android phone and iPad. Hence, it is interoperable across all devices and form factors. 
• A dashboard for me is a notebook, not a note. I call it 'Weekly'.
• Each week is represented as a single note in the notebook. 
• I use a single color coded metric (Good, Average, Bad) week based on a qualitative assessment at the end of each week. 
• At the end of the year, I just count the number of good, average and bad weeks and thats about it. 
• Infact, I keep an active counter, incremented weekly. Its the first thing you will notice on each note. e.g. '[G] 15 [A] 23 [ B ] 11' . 
• My mantra is to get some really good weeks in a year, those will have a greater impact and ensure your bad weeks are contained or spaced out. Thats it!
• The most important thing for me is to track recent weeks and what small changes or nudges i can do in my life to recover from bad and average weeks and get to atleast one good week a month.
• Its similar to Seinfield's don't break the chain concept but applied on weeks instead of individual habits. 
• I have decided to format each week (each note) as a single column long table to make it nicely formatted and scrollable on mobile, nothing else.
• I achieve the above views through built in Evernote layout options on desktops (both mac and windows) 
• The view consists of three columns, the middle column is changed to card view and sorted alphabetically in descending order Note that this is Evernote's application layout, not an individual note's layout. @robinnj
• Each card ends with a picture of a coloured square which Evernote automatically picks up as the card picture in the middle column (Evernote layout). 
• The middle column's width is adjustable with drag and drop, at the expense of the note's width.
• This is not a problem since I am already using a single column note and can accomodate squeezing the note to make more room for the middle column.
• I also use a set of tightly controlled tags and saved searches to keep me 'in the flow'. 
• 've been evolving this system since 2016, all on Evernote (<:3) and have become better at practicing my own system with inspiration from David Allen's GTD, 'The One Thing', 'Atomic Habits', 'The Habit Loop', ''The Secret Weapon GTD', etc and above all this article from Scott Adams. 
• Too bad this is a US only thread, could get some Evernote love here in Down Under (that's Australia for the uninitiated).. 
• Thanks @Sayre Ambrosio for answering @robinnj correctly. 

 @Atif   Thank you for this very informative and instructive post.  Your taking the time to go through it was very helpful, compared to most of the short quips received.  It turns out I'm doing something similar, just never thought of it as a dashboard, using a Notebook titled "Today" and nested notebooks 'Inbox', 'Action', 'Billminder' and 'In Process'.  Obviously this is not as sophisticated, but has become a valuable tool in keeping on top of things I have in process, status, bills due, and new items.  This along with the Reminder function works well.    Thanks again, for taking the time to walk through this.
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Shane D.   I think some of us are a little thrown back about the "Dashboard Contest".  I believe "Dashboard" is a common Mac feature, but is foreign to us Windows users.  Perhaps you could post a followup with a little more explanation as to what "Dashboards" are, whether the contest is for just Mac users or all users, etc.  To many of us, like Corybe,  ewbeyer, and myself, this is a new and interesting concept within Evernote.  Thanks

3 hours ago, Terminal said:

So the "Dashboard" is in fact a Note, just one formatted for a specific purpose. I personally have a "Dashboard" notebook and a new note is generated everyday with my generated "Dashboard" which is things I look at and need daily.

  Terminal,  Are you a Mac user, or on Windows?    Sayre Ambrosio has a nice looking Dashboard, but I notice he is a Mac user.

10 hours ago, Corybe said:

Wow, you folks just opened my eyes to how I might solve the problem with which I have been struggling for years.  I use Evernote A LOT, and I have been wishing there was a way for it to be the first thing I open each day and have it guide me through my daily tasks and provide resources for said tasks.  I suffer from a brain injury, and my organizational skills, memory, and processing printed material are quite challenged as a result of the damage.  I tried setting up reminder alerts, but that got too cumbersome and overwhelmed me.  Having a dashboard note seems like an answer to my prayers.  Soooo, how the heck do you create one of these and load in dynamic content like photos?  I know how to use note links and such.  I need some help figuring out just how to do this.  Can someone help me?  THANKS!!!!

Cory... You're not the only one to get struck with ...WOW !

Shane D's contest was the first I have ran into the term "Dashboard" in Evernote.   I've heard reference to the Home, or Start Page, but I think this is the first I've heard of a Dashboard being in what is apparently fairly popular use; and I've been an Evernote User forever, starting back with the beginning program and there were no mobile apps or paid subscriptions.  In fact, as I'm a Windows & Android user, I'm wondering if maybe this is a Mac phenomenon???