Don Reba

You are right, updating solved the columns narrowing. However, the horizontal scrollbars are still there.

Sure thing.

It might be getting worse. All my tables broke, with rows that used to be one line now taking up two or three. And there are now horizontal scroll bars that don't help anything.

At last, Evernote did update the Android 9 client. It's slower but usable. So, now I don't need to look for another note taking software.

Evernote stopped syncing me when I'm connected through a VPN (which is almost always). The forum login also stopped supporting the VPN.

Those don't work on Android before 10, as far as I can tell.

Checkboxes were the main issue. For example, we need to use a Legacy desktop client when we want to make a grocery list we can check off in the store.

The Android market is different from Apple's. About a quarter of Android users are still on version 9 or below: https://9to5google.com/2023/06/02/android-13-june-distribution That's a good proportion of Evernote users who would not be able to update from Legacy.

My phone is 5 years young and is giving me no reasons to change it. A few months ago, I asked my wife to start using Evernote, so we could have a shared family notebook. Then we found we couldn't use the notes her desktop made on our phones, so we rolled her back onto Legacy. Now, Legacy nags us every morning.

I wish Evernote updated its Android 9 client to be compatible with the current version, instead of nagging. As it is, I couldn't move on from the Legacy version even if I wanted to because I don't buy a new phone every couple of years.

For once, I'm happy Samsung is not rolling out Android 10 to my phone.

I don't know the details, but I find the claim that a 32-bit program couldn't use dark mode hard to believe. But, even granting that, it's pretty unusual to have to rewrite much just to recompile a program in 64 bits. Most of the time, it does not take any changes at all. It doesn't mean that at all. It is very rare for Windows updates to break reverse compatibility. A lot of 20-year-old software runs perfectly fine without changes. It's really not rocket science. Saying this having written a full-featured Evernote client myself a while ago, one with rich text editing, offline note storage, search, attachment, multimedia note support, etc.

What do you mean it "looks ridiculous"? I don't know about other platforms, but the Windows client version 6 is one of the better-looking programs I use. Besides, it's a desktop program, it's not like it needs to be rewritten every season to keep up with the latest fashions. That's quite a low bar to clear, though. I expect desktop software to be much more responsive than websites.

I've read in another topic that the Nimbus client is a bloated Electron app, like the new Evernote. Better support is good, but, if this is true, it won't replace Evernote's old native client. I want to have good software and not interact with support at all.

The main implication is that this cache does not have any forward compatibility guarantees and could be deleted at any moment. It is currently purged whenever you sign out of Evernote and is likely to be purged after updates, as well.

Firefox for Android just recently. They switched the engine and rewrote the app from the ground up, losing all the features that used to make it worth using over other browsers. The two releases are so similar, they feel like a single event in my mind.

If it asked you now if you want to update, you might think twice. This way it doesn't have to ask.

Just found out about this feature from this thread, and it's brilliant! Evernote should absolutely add it back in version 10.

One has to wonder who had the bright idea to use Electron for an application that needs to be running all the time. That's hundreds of megabytes of RAM you don't get to use for your work anymore, as well as the reduced battery life.

Overall agree, except with this. Please don't. MS Office is notorious for ignoring Windows UI conventions.

We've been down this road before with Evernote 3.5, when they decided to rewrite the client in .NET. It became slugging and lost features, the users were up in arms. Thankfully, the developers had the humility to go back to native in version 4.0.

This is a big disappointment. There should be no binaries in the profile directory — software goes into "Program Files." And it is a poor install experience, since the installer has to be ran as Admin when the previous version has been installed to "Program Files." Sounds like v10 is an Electron app. 😣 Going to be a repeat of the disastrous Evernote 3.5 .NET rewrite.