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stuartthompson

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  1. Unfortunately, despite multiple restarts, the spinner appears and reappears multiple times both while viewing and editing my larger notes. There are some smaller notes that seem fine, but even after the application has been sitting open for a long time, I can browse to a note and be greeted by a long-lived spinner. I'm unable to scroll or edit during this time. Restarting the application doesn't seem to fix.
  2. I am furious. I have used Evernote for over a decade, almost since the initial release. I have been a paying premium member almost continuously for as long as the premium has been available. I was recently "upgraded" to version 10. This version of the client is a massive downgrade in features and performance. The lack of a local sync seems like one of the most massive blunders imaginable. Local sync was one of the very reasons I chose Evernote in the first place. Opening a notebook, something that is supposed to be a digital facsimile of the paper equivalent, only to be locked out of the note I need while a spinner displays is a massively downgraded experience. I wouldn't get a spinner on a paper note and I'd like not to have one on a locally created and managed note either. I always accepted that when I installed the client on a new machine there would be a period where my notebooks would need to be sync'd. That's the same as cloning my repositories from git onto that machine or syncing file from an online box storage service. It makes sense. What does not make sense is going to open a technical notebook I reference daily, a notebook I have maintained locally on my development machine for years, and finding the client locked up, waiting for a spinner to resolve before I can even begin scrolling to the relevant section of the note. This whole "unification" of clients, bringing the lowest common denominator to all platforms seems like a way for Evernote to save money and development cost at the expense of their userbase. I'm sorry if your internal software architecture and multi-platform development strategy made feature management and development expensive and painful. That is a hard software problem to solve. Choosing to solve it at the expense of your paying customers is a very poor (and selfish) choice. Please restore the missing functionality, including local sync, color choice flexibility, encrypted text blocks (all previously included encrypted text block functionality), font options, and the richness of the Evernote client we have used and paid for over the last decade. This latest release is a disgrace and an insult to long-term users of the product.
  3. I have been an Evernote user for a decade. I have paid for Premium almost continuously from the point at which the premium service was offered. I was recently "updated" to the v10 client only to find that the color range and color choices have been downgraded. Removing functionality is not how I spell "premium" and certainly is not an advancement. I developed my own note coloring standards several years ago and have used them to highlight and draw attention to key parts of my technical notes since that time. This downgrade in color options may be cute for an entry level casual notes product, but to remove color control like this after a decade of support is ridiculous. Please restore the original color flexibility and choices as soon as possible.
  4. I was recently updated to version 10. I have been having large performance issues ever since. I have been an Evernote user for over a decade, since the early days of the service. Over that time I have accrued a large number of notes over several notebooks. I use Evernote on a daily basis for everything from GTD, archiving, technical notes, planning, journaling, and a whole host of other content-heavy applications. The offline client has served me very well during that time. When I quickly (!) needed an answer to a question I could pop open Evernote and find what I was looking for almost immediately. The new v10 client spins for up to a minute or more on many of my notes, regardless of whether I opened the same note just a few minutes earlier. I have a few rather large notes that have yet to respond at all, just spinning for multiple minutes until I get frustrated and close the application. This is making Evernote unusable for me. If the client cannot provide me access to my notes quickly then it ceases to provide a useful function. Waiting for minutes to access reference material that should (and was!) stored locally is a non-starter. When I open my notebooks or search, I need the material to be returned quickly. Otherwise, I have to mentally put down what I was working on when I needed the reference note in order to wait or debug the problem with the EN client. I have found myself copying and pasting my most referenced notes into other applications just so that I can access the information quickly. Having to maintain "quick reference note" copies in another application invalidates the whole purpose of having Evernote in the first place. Please restore offline caching functionality. The notes need to load near instantly and without UI-blocking spinners. Otherwise, the whole point of a handy nearby notebook is lost. Client version: 10.17.6-win-ddl-public (2775) Editor: v126.2.16348 Service: v1.37.8
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