scerwin

There's a long discussion about this issue at https://discussion.evernote.com/forums/topic/146837-white-screen/

Dear Federico, I trust you are aware of a widespread problem Android users are having with the Evernote app: after authenticating the screen is simply white. There is no solution for this. I, and many others, have found that reinstalling resolves the issue but only for a day or two. Then it returns, making the app completely useless. It would be a good move on your part to respond to your users on the support site. We are unhappy and frustrated that the new owner seems to be paying no attention to our problems.

I have the exact same problem as described by others on my Pixel 3 running Android 12 and a paying subscriber to Evernote. Have uninstalled and reinstalled twice. Each time the white screen issue seemed fixed, only to return a day later. Giving up now, because no one has a solution to this widespread bug.

I often create audio clips on my Android phone using Smart Voice Recorder and then share them to my default folder on Evernote. This works about half the time and fails (silently) the other half. In the screenshot, Recording 13 appears to be there but the note is empty (and no, waiting a few minutes doesn't help). Same for Recording 12. But Recordings 11 and 10 appeared correctly and exactly as intended. All four clips were treated identically. The problem lies with Evernote, not Smart Voice Recorder or Android. I know this because all four recordings can be successfully shared to many other apps, such as Google Drive or Gmail or Viber, with no problems ever. The problem only occurs with Evernote and it occurs repeatedly and frequently, say roughly half the time.

You're very welcome, agsteele and Dave-in-Decatur. As you both sensibly pointed out, it really is worth the five minutes it takes to turn a 4-click process [*] into a zero-click one. I have scanned many thousands of documents to Evernote over the last decade. It's not even about the time saved, but rather saying goodbye to the infuriating ridiculousness of going through the same completely unnecessary steps every single time. [*] Here are the steps I used to perform to get each scan into Evernote. No longer! 1. Share (from SwiftScan) 2. Choose format: Document PDF (from SwiftScan) 3. Choose the service to share to: Evernote (from Android) 4. Save to default notebook (from Evernote popup) Of course, some users may not be comfortable doing the 'rather complicated install' of Dropbox. I can only encourage them to try. It takes just a few clicks. But if they prefer to endlessly repeat the 4-click 'simple task' above, I will not try to dissuade them.

Here's how I do it. On my Android phone, I use SwiftScan to scan documents because it can also auto-upload to various cloud services like Google Drive, Dropbox, etc. I use Dropbox. On my computer, I installed Dropbox so that files in the cloud are synced to a local folder on my computer. Then I configured Evernote (on my computer) to watch this folder and automatically import new files when they appear there. This sounds a bit complicated, I know. But in operation, it's dead simple. Here's how it works. I open SwiftScan, point my camera at a document, and wait for it to focus and take the photo. That's it. A few seconds later the pdf appears in Evernote like magic. Zero clicks, as promised.

After some struggle, I figured out a "zero-click" method for scanning documents directly into an Evernote pdf note. It is by far the easiest method I can imagine. You don't need to fiddle with exporting or uploading or emailing or converting jpg to pdf. You simply point your phone's camera at the document, wait for it to take the picture, and a few seconds later your pdf note appears in Evernote like magic. Extra credit to anyone who can figure this out. But I'm happy to explain if you're impatient.

Apparently the answer to my question is "no, Evernote cannot do this." Incredible!

But I want my scanned docs to be saved as pdf, not jpg. This is such a basic task that I find it incredible that Evernote cannot do it.

The subject says it all. It seems so obvious a need. But I have no idea whether Evernote can do this. Can it?

In the new Evernote 10, moving a note to a notebook is a disaster. The popup window showing the available notebooks now shows all your notebooks, whether in a stack or not, alphabetized as one giant list. This is utterly wrong and very irritating for anyone who uses stacks. The previous version of Evernote presented a perfectly sensible and nicely formatted list of available notebooks that clearly showed which ones were inside a stack (by indentation) and which were not. Is this really what the designers wanted?