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You might have a good career with EN.

EN's issue probably has more to do with management, priority and resources than a specific tracking system. There does not seem to be a concerted effort to fix things (management issue in my view), and hasn't been the years I have been using the product. Personally, I have never understood why bugs aren't a sin against humanity in the eyes of software companies. Software development by its nature creates bugs but the trick is how to keep them to a minimum and how to eradicate them as quickly as possible after they appear (preferably not in the live world). All the voting in the world isn't going to fix it if EN management doesn't decide to devote the resources to prevention and remediation. Let them determine the priorities for all I care, just do it and get a manageable process instituted that results in a high quality product.

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FollowUpThen, it is a free or subscription service. They use the email address you send to to create the reminder, many variations. For example 11amJun10@followupthen.com will send you a reminder at that time, or send to every1st8am@followupthen.com will set up a recurring reminder for the first of every month at 8 am. Put what you like in the subject line to identify the task. I also paste the note link into the body. When the email arrives I just click the link and am in the note. FWIW.

@s2sailor Pretty much the same here. I have a tag !Recur to group the recurring reminders, and do reset the date after each use. Ditto on the saved searches with Today and Late in the shortcuts bar, the rest as hot keys. No color coding though, may give that a go. In addition, I use FUT as a backup trigger just to be sure, belts and suspenders so to speak. And I do like all my stuff in one place, which all of this enables..

Since it is a date specific recurring reminder, be it day of week or day of month, completion date is less critical, to me anyway. if it were critical I would no doubt use my PhaseExpress hot key to to put _Completed 06/07/2016 07:45 AM in the note in a systematic fashion. I created this hot key since I like to see the completed date without working too hard and there are only so many columns you can see in side list view. If completed date was visible pre V6 I missed it.

Workaround. I create a recurring reminder using FollowUpThen and paste the note link in the reminder. Then I receive a reminder email at the appointed time and click the link to see the note. Would also prefer to have recurring in EN, but in the meantime... FWIW.

Per @gazumped, but you need to check the second button to get a file per page.

Only if you are silly enough to connect to the ransomed server after the restore. Ditto if you restore with ENEX files. It all boils down to risk/effort/reward. This thread talks about some options that are available for backup/restore. We all have a different risk tolerance and amount of effort we are willing to invest to mitigate it. Users need to pick the strategy with which they are comfortable and are willing to assume the consequences.

Do you think the ransom would be more or less that the subscription fees? Tiered based upon subscription fee? Just wondering.... Not a joking matter I know, but we do have the ability to have backups and use EN locally should such a dire event occur. Nastier case is someone taking over your own machine versus EN's, IMO.

Ben Hogan: “… the more I practice, the luckier I get.”

One saving grace of EN is that it is a local app so you can use your backup and then create HTML if need be, independent of what is occurring on the server.

If you want to maintain notebook information, multiple smaller folders by notebook would be the way to go.

Again, new account should work. Your imported ENEX or EXB replacement (blank DB to start in the new account to be sure) should appear to the server as if you did a bunch of entry on your local device. ENEX would work for sure, EXB not 100% sure, but I think it would. Easy enough to test by creating a new free account and importing some notes after you create it. Then save that text EXB, create a new free account and replace that EXB with the test EXB you created. (Sorry EN for the two temporary accounts.) Let us know how it goes. You don't lose notebook structure if you export by notebook, you do lose links if they are to local notes (good reason to leave the link text alone should you have to do a rebuild). No other way to backup local notebooks except for export. End of the day the files used for ransom ware are the same you would be using for a normal backup against pestilence and the rest of the data destroyers. If ransom ware were to kick in you wouldn't be able to use your existing account anyway, would you?

If you have EXB or ENEX backups it seems you could "load" them into a new account without too much hassle, other than upload limits if your data base was larger than 10GB. I think the only PITA issue would be the currency of the data based upon how old the backup was. Small price to pay for the fringe scenario presented I suppose.

Don't know that you can see total tags and notebooks in the Windows version. You can see total tags in the IOS version, FWIW.

I think more employee participation in the forums, productive and helpful participation at that.

Including an idiot proof net backup restore type process, I assume.

You would assume all those cartoons and the like would eat up more space.

Workaround, change the recent edit (updated) date of the note to 12/12/2030 or the like if you sort in reverse order. No official way to pin notes. You can do some note placement with reminders but typically a PITA if you have a lot of notes in the mix. EDIT: should you ever modify the note you will need to change the updated date to maintain the "pinning".

Clueless. You would hope the more users, the more sophisticated the company, the more critical the data, the more attention to backup/restore. If you give EN credit for security, accidentally deleted notes are still an issue.

Yeah, I have 10 notebooks, 2 of which are typically empty (INBOX and Scans) and 1 of which has a few notes or none (I named it Quick - easy way to get quick access to a current project set of notes by temporarily moving them there). Could probably compress to 3 storage notebooks plus INBOX and Scans, but I like how the current set up facilitates searches in my use case. Net of it all, manual ENEX backups once a week aren't too much of a labor. IAC. it's mostly for local NBs and accidental deletes in synced NBs, history covers synced notes pretty well for me.

To paraphrase Henny Youngman, "If it hurts to have 100 notebooks, don't have 100 notebooks". Just kidding. Yeah, a utility of some sort to do notebook knowledgeable backup for restore purposes is needed. Fewer notebooks, ENEX is not so bad, but still automation would be helpful. More notebooks even more so. Could always add notebook name as a tag, but then why have notebook (other than the quick search restriction benefits). Not a good solution at all.

For sure. Someone else recently, I forget the thread. IAC, 28k and still cooking. We'll see what happens in the next year or two as I approach 40k.

Yeah, somebody posted about being in the 90s, someone in the 60,s (not near 100 but larger than typically reported). Real or not, type of notes, size of data base, who knows.