Bryan Black

Thanks for the additional info, much appreciated!

Thanks for your post here @markbyrn I'd had the same issue (but not on the M1 Chip MacBookPro, the most recent version right before M1) and providing EN with full disk access did the trick.

Thanks for your reply, @garrettm30. Have you heard if this will be something that eventually gets added? Bryan

There seems to be an issue in Evernote 3 where I haven't been able to ignore words, or even change to suggested correct spelling that the MacOS has identified as being misspelled. Meaning words that I know are spelled right, like brand names, the MacOS is identifying as being misspelled and in other MacOS applications like TextEdit, I have the ability to Control Click and bring up the Menu that allows me to click "Ignore Spelling". I don't have this option in Evernote 3, it seems to have been removed for some reason. This issue leaves my notes full of distracting red dotted underlines and the only way to get rid of them is to completely turn off the whole Mac system spelling check/auto correct in the Keyboard system preferences, or pull up another application like TextEdit, type the same word in there and control click and select "Learn Spelling". Then going back to the Evernote Note will remove the red dotted underline. I'm using MacOSCatalina 10.15.7 and am glad to provide further details if needed. Thanks!

Hi Annah, thank you so much for the reassurance you've offered here on this issue. I'm sending you a DM on your offer right now, I'm glad to offer feedback on this.

Point taken, I don’t want to cause more work for admins and moderators. I completely understand the very logical reasons they may not be acting on this issue, but its becoming frustrating enough that I’ve explored options to move my data off the platform after being a premium user for 10 years. I know, if I don’t like it just leave. It may not mean much to have me walk away, but something is fundamentally wrong when a company stops listening to its customers for so long that they find alternatives. I do plan to stick around a few more months to see if anything gets better and then I’ll take my business elsewhere. I appreciate all you guys do to keep this outlet going for users to learn and share on, keep up the great work 👍🏻

Maybe we can keep commenting to make this thread more visible? Hey Evernote, Can you hear us now?

Hi CalS, as Jake astutely figured out above, the issue still has problems holding your place when your cursor isn’t active. For me there’s also the annoying spinning wheel when I come back to the document as well that I have to wait for. I see the note for a millisecond, then is disappears while it’s loading. This is despite having the “background refresh” setting toggled on in settings for EN. Thanks for your help and for yours too @Jake567

Hi CalS, thanks for your willingness to help. I do now see that my cursor is staying in the right place within a document (so far), however the refresh is still taking place each time I come back to the note after switching to another app for more than a few seconds. Are you seeing this too?

The issue still persists for me. I made sure I’d updated to 8.24.4 and did both a power on/off and a reset to my iPhone running iOS 13.4 (most current version as of this comment)

Thanks for the additional info, I'll check out the newest web version. I understand your point with the potential investment Evernote would need to make in resources to get the fix implemented, but the trade-off is more of this kind of thing happening and disenfranchising their long-time customers. I appreciate your time in following up with me on all this, Bryan

Thanks for your reply, I completely understand how they may be taking the position of waiting for the new release that I'm sure they're pouring a ton of resources into. I would hope there would still be room to address issues like this without having to wait, being that I can't see a way they couldn't also still develop (so to speak) for the existing platform. I'm too embedded to switch and really don't want to tackle the headache of a new system and porting everything over, so I do hope there's a solution on the horizon with their new version. Can you explain a bit more what you mean by "The most recent Web client is a precursor to behaviors being introduced across their account" do you mean it worked correctly before Evernote suspended development on the current editor and then operating systems or clients were updated and it broke the fix Evernote had in place already? Thanks again, Bryan

I was thankful to find this discussion, as I’ve had an issue with this for years now. I’m deeply imbedded in the Evernote ecosystem, unfortunately, as it was marketed to me as a place to keep reference information. This persistent issue is so annoying though, that after 10 years of an Evernote paid subscription, I’ve about had it. Especially seeing how long this issue has persisted without a fix. Here’s my experience: When I reference a note, or even create a reference note and then switch apps to read/copy/paste/type information, (a very typical user behavior in my opinion) I get the annoying skip/jump back to the top of the note after having to first wait for a refresh of said note. This totally destroys the usability of Evernote and ruins the experience. I’ll give another use case that others have mentioned, but from my perspective; cooking. When I pull up a recipe, (a well known and documented use of Evernote by the company themselves) I do so with a search. Firstly, if you click on the auto complete result which Evernote is smartly and intuitively suggesting, you’re taken to said result. If you click on that suggested result before hitting return, it’s only a temporary result. Meaning I say “oh cool, there’s the recipe I need!” Then if my phone locks or I switch apps for any reason, say even getting a phone call, the note is kicked out and I have to search again. However, if I just hit return on the few letters I’d started to type of a search, clicking on any of those results will provide a list of results that when clicking, remain open after an app switch. Now though, the note does the craziness of refreshing and jumping to a different place (most often all the way at the beginning) in the document before I can view it again. Losing my place in the recipe I was reading is very annoying, as is waiting in the refresh to read it again. Yes it’s quick, but when your making a meal, it’s often just that quick look to see if it was a 1/2 cup of flour or a 1/4 cup. I hope this adds further input into the issue and Evernote is actually reading this. I’m on an iPhone Xs running iOS 13.3.1 and my Evernote is up to date as of this comment on 3/24/20. p.s. I just had to leave this screen to double check the date and then come back to type it in and this Safari browser window didn’t have to refresh, or jump to the top of the document, forcing me to wait and then scroll down to where I was at typing this comment. If it would have been the Evernote App, it would have done that to me.