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CalS

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  1. You are welcome. Hope you get it sorted.
  2. You are welcome. Nobody knows your priorities better than you. From a process perspective you could set an arbitrary limit on the number of ASAP tasks you will allow, say 5 or 10. This will force you to pick the most important tasks. Then don't add anything to the pool out of process unless some catastrophe item appears. Work the pool down and take it back to 10 when all the ASAPs are done or refresh to 10 during your review cycle (end of day maybe). Try not to worry about the non-ASAP tasks, you will get to them. You can also set a limit on your next items if you like. This will give you a quick view as to what should be added to ASAP next. If you make an error in assigning priority, just change it. To get the name to show in green you have to select if from the drop down.
  3. @Neyghey Did you ever look at the The Secret Weapon? Not sure it is worth following its precepts to the letter, but one thing I plucked from it was the priority hierarchy concept. ASAPs for me are tagged with !1-Now, and from there I go to !2-Next, !3-Soon, !4-Later, !5-Someday, !6-Waiting, and !7- Read. All of the tags are preceded by !# so that they sort in the tag drop down and list views. The discipline as @jefito says is to clear some of the !1-Now's before adding anything to that "pool" of work. I also use reminders for some tasks that are specifically date sensitive. I end up looking at two searches, one for !1-Now and one for date, but it works from me. With two clicks on saved searches I get date sensitive items and otherwise important items. FWIW.
  4. You are welcome. If you don't find something you like, I think PE is releasing a beta for Mac.
  5. Until/if EN implements this, you can use a text expander tool to accomplish this fairly easily on a desktop. I use PhraseExpress in Windows. You can create a phrase containing <doubleclick><Ctrl-C>-<Ctrl-F><Ctrl-V> and assign it a hot key. I have assigned Alt-Right mouse to mine. Then when I hover over a word and press the Alt-Right mouse combo focus will jump to the next occurrence of the word in the note. This works for any word in the note. So if you format your JumpTo links with an underline and color for ease of access, it will simulate an in-note link. In the meantime. FWIW.
  6. You are welcome. Yeah, my bad, I implied a return (add) but was not specific. Glad it worked.
  7. To be clear clicking on Add Tag will also let you select an existing tag. When there are no more matches you get to actually add the new tag.
  8. This is a Windows forum - was the missing note on a PC or your phone? In any case, I would log into EN on the web and look for the note (I'm assuming that's what you meant by file) to see if it is there. If the note was a new note on your phone but had not synced before you deleted the app, the note is not recoverable. If it was an existing note you were editing you can use the premium feature of note history to retrieve the most recent version of the note. Deleting the app from the phone will not delete an existing note.
  9. Another way to do this is to use a text expander. I use PhraseExpress on Windows, they have a beta on Mac. There are other like tools for the Mac. You can create your own hotkey to execute the command. For example: This expression created in PhraseExpress - {#F6}created:{#datetime -f yyyymmdd -s -1Y} -created:{#datetime -f yyyymmdd -s -1Y 1D} puts created::20160121 -created:20160122 in the EN search bar. So if I hit Shift-Alt-L in EN I get the search. All of this is done with drop downs in PhraseExpress. FWIW.
  10. Yeah, v8 on the iPad is sloooooow. Instantaneous on the iPhone though. Slowness may have to do with DB size or note count, but I don't really think so. My iPhone DB size lists at 143MB and my PC version is close to 15GB. So just the titles and the like on the phone, other than the aforementioned special notebook.. You really can't use tags for offline notes. Only notebooks can be designated as offline.
  11. Unless you have any of your notebooks marked as offline there isn't a major storage hit on your iPad. If you do use offline notebooks, provided you typically have an internet connection, consider a strategy of only having certain notebooks offline. This requires far less space. I actually created a notebook in which to place notes that I wanted to be sure and have available if I was without a connection. Otherwise I just let EN download the notes when needed. Which shouldn't be too bad at all if most of your notes are < 1MB. FWIW
  12. Hey Gaz, Yeah I got that, it seemed from the post that the OP did not want notes in the search results where the docket file was included. I offered a solution and noted it has the risk of missing notes if the search term is in the body and the attachment. It seemed if the attachment was causing more hits than the OP wanted and minus-ing those notes might help. Not perfect, just a workaround that the OP could consider based upon how large the risk. That and not having to split a bunch of notes if the risk is low. You can always take the minus out of the search if you don't like the results. But I agree, separating and linking the attachment should make it error free.
  13. Workarounds. If you know most of the culprit notes you could - them out, though you might also - out the a note where the search term was contained in the note text and the attachment. So a search with -"docket file name" added to the search should shrink the number of false positives in your case. Or add a tag named Attachment to all of your notes containing attachments and then add -tag:Attachments to the search to remove those notes from the search results. .FWIW.
  14. Thought I would give this a try. Steps I followed to create a link to my Inbox note book were: Find ENScript.exe and send a shortcut to the desktop, C:\Program Files (x86)\Evernote\Evernote\ENScript.exe on my system. Right click and then Properties on the newly created desktop shortcut. Go to the Shortcut tab and modify the target field to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Evernote\Evernote\ENScript.exe" shownotes /q notebook:inbox, change inbox to the notebook of choice. Go to the Security tab and copy the Object name field. Create a link using the copied field wherever it is you want. Seems to work well from the desktop shortcut and a link within a Word Document, the only two tests I ran. Not sure about OmniFocus and the like. FWIW.
  15. Check your options and be sure Synchronize changes on exit is not checked and you would be okay. Also, you don't want to have Enable instant sync checked.
  16. Wonder if you could do this with a text expander like PhraseExpress. Once you got EN started it would be fairly simple to simulate a shortcut search. How would one start EN with a text expander? Never tried that one since I always have EN open.
  17. Thank yourself! Your sync settings and quick thinking enabled this.
  18. With EN today you would have to create a note for each of the reminders you want, but even then you won't get an interrupt other than a daily email from EN re reminders for the day. There is another email tool, FollowUpThen, with which you can set up email reminders to yourself. Per @gazumped you would have to snooze them or create a reminder for each of the dates you want. The snooze options are shown below.
  19. What @jefito said and it is two concurrent devices, not just two devices. Log out of one to log into another.
  20. @Donald23 Another workaround is to use a tool called FollowUpThen which lets you send send yourself different types of reminders. You can create a recurring reminder for whatever and paste a link to a relevant note into that FollowUpThen reminder if need be. Then each month, or whatever period, you will receive an email containing a link you can click to go to the note. Downside is still two apps to manage the tasks, with FUT being the interrupter. Below is an example of creating a recurring reminder for a gas bill. FWIW.
  21. Probably not going to change, and it is two concurrent devices, not just two devices.
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