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Hi there, I think the only time I've mentioned the sync problem with EN is here - https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/73373-i-see-in-the-news-today-nov-4-2014-evernote-premium-price-may-change/page-4#entry351329 I could recover my lost work in the history of the note if I originally composed in the web version. If I composed in the desktop version, the losses were not recoverable. Some of the broken notes would end up in conflicting changes, but the lost data wasn't there. The troubleshooting process was primarily a matter of working on the web version vs desktop, reinstalling desktop version, and sending logs and app/browser versions over to EN support. They did what they could but it wasn't solved. It may work fine now, but I don't compose in EN anymore, so I don't know. I had one sync problem with ON from one device. I forget the details but I was able to solve it by following the steps in a KB article. I didn't need to get support involved. One advantage EN has over ON in my use case is that there are more integration options with IFTTT and Zapier. Making backups of my blog posts, youtube watch later videos, etc., just seems to work better with EN. I find it endlessly fascinating that people can have such different experiences with the exact same software. It really makes it tricky to find the ideal solution, because one person's sync horror story could scare another away to a product that they might in turn have a sync horror story, which they might have avoided going with the original software presented. It makes my brain hurt! Same here. I've had tag sync issues across time but no general sync disasters such as have appeared in the forum. It would be interesting to know what combination of EN software, other software on a machine, settings, communications and network, general experience level, and whatever else causes some to have such issues. Just good to be on the green grass side of the fence on this one.

For the last 10-15 posts I might quote the Bard, "Thought is free". From the Tempest...

And Apple gets folks to pay a premium for the cool stuff. This from a happy iPhone/iPad owner. Now that's what I call marketing!

@Frank, Will you have forgotten the mission by the time you get there? Just wondering.

@jbignert, Understood, thanks for the response.

Any way to skip opening the browser window on the way to EN?

To the rescue, "you're just arguing semantics". Thanks for typing it above, all I had to do was cut/paste. And obviously the difference in whining and moaning is the pitch at which the message is delivered. This is sarcasm, so please no flaming.

Personally I am not stuck on dissatisfaction with function but am stuck on dissatisfaction with quality. I agree wholeheartedly that improved security and some of the other oft repeated requests would enhance and expand the usability of the product. But it is mind numbing to me to have a product where it does not functionally perform to its own specifications. Now it isn't debilitating, I can still leverage the product extremely well through workarounds of some sort. But it creates an environment of sometimes second guessing or looking over one's shoulder because you can't quite be 100% sure. Someone once told me that when it comes to presentations and developing confidence in your audience, if one number on the page is wrong, they are all wrong. Simple examples for EN are reminder date search logic and tag syncing, or simplest of all, note counts on the web by themselves or when compared to the desktop. How can note counts not be the same in a non-synced world? Per all the above though, there is a balancing act between adding the sizzle that attracts investors/users and the infrastructure of the product. At some point though, I think the two should be on level footing. That being said, I am still an aggressive user and proponent of EN, the good far outweighs the bad from me at this point..

That would put a crimp in one's style.....

'Twould seem Selective sync seems a good idea to me. But, as stated many times in other threads, it's EN's call as to whether they want to implement it or not, easy or hard, other software models or not. 'Twould seem though that a second account on the MBA sharing the 10% notebook of the OP is a simple and reasonably elegant solution. Definitely the same result, though not a pure selective sync deployment (whether it be notebook based or only sync the headers based). Relative to storage you can get 240 GB of SSD for under $100 these days, not exactly a kings ransom. You can spend $250 as well if you like. My experience with performance on SSD says I'll never have another PC without it. The above is just the view of the writer, not meant to be gospel by any stretch.

Click and then Shift-Click doesn't work in Windows browsers to my knowledge. The only multi-note select in the browser is Click and then as may Alt-Clicks as you like. At least that's what I've found. Shift-Click does work in the desktop clients, FWIW.

Yeah, happened to me with regularity, particularly if the note title has scrolled up. And only if I want to highlight something of course. But then I did the registry edit to get Show Editing Toolbar in the View menu and now the editing toolbar stays in place and I use the info button for note info. Edit: Here is that thread - https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/81338-how-can-i-directly-add-hyperlink-to-a-note-in-the-toolbar/?p=345082

I think if you create a reminder and set a date within the Win app, the default time is plus 1 hour to the current time, not quite random. If you set the reminder in an email subject, the default time is 8:00 am. At least that is my experience

@gaz. Yeah, even if it happens twice.

If you do decide to keep this in EN,, a workaround that I use is to tag the note with !Recur in addition to adding a reminder date. Then when I search the tag !Recur I get all of the recurring reminders. After I review/modify the note I change the reminder date, if need be. To be clear, my recurring reminder needs may be minimal compared to yours so this may not be the best solution for you. I accept the workaround since I like to have all of my stuff in one place. FWIW.

In Windows you can go to Tools - Options - Language and un-check the Check spelling as you type box.

It is important to know where the servers are as well. I don't think that it has changed, but the last cloud service contract with which I was involved had provisions that the company's data had to be housed on US servers. Heaven only knows how much difference that makes, but still.

https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/24567-how-do-i-search-for-a-hashpound-sign-in-a-title/#entry129726

Poetic?

Alan, How do you read that font? On my iPad and it hurts! ;-)

If a search result includes a note which truly has no value, I will delete the note. Its not likely at that point that I will go on safari to find other like notes to purge them. Juice not worth the squeeze for me.

Jeff's point's plus statements, confirmations of any sort, insurance policies, manuals, web clips, jokes, project notes and emails, receipts of any kind, pictures of wines consumed and liked, and basically anything that might go in a filing cabinet. I am virtually paperless at this point. Minor details, I have 16k notes on line and the rest in local notebooks, of all my notes 16.5k are PDFs, and I don't do much pruning since the majority of the notes are historical.

Ditto on the jinx, but I think you may be safe for another 10k notes. I'm approaching 27,500 and no performance issues as yet on today's release. I had some slowdown a few releases back, but that got fixed.. Someone mentioned 30k seemed to be the tipping point...

GM, PIM. I think you have hit the proverbial nail on the head here. EN is definitely more a PIM and not a note taking app. Way back in the day I used an app called Ecco. It advertised itself as a PIM but was really a note taking app built on an outline structure and a search function. That was about all it did, but it did it well. EN seems sometimes to be advertised as a note taking app but really is a PIM based upon all of the types and formats of information it can absorb, 'structure', and find across platforms. For me, EN does PIM well, but does not do pure note taking as well. So when you look at the Slant list it does feel like a comparison of apples and oranges. It would be interesting to know how many cross platform PIMs exist beyond EN and ON would make it to a PIM comparison chart Personally, I'm past the tinkering stage. I've five plus years invested in integrating EN into my work flow, I have all my personal information in EN (within the constraints of today's security boundaries), it does what I need well the majority of the time and when it doesn't I improvise, Improvising is so much easier than changing tools. Now, I haven't run into the scalability issues of others as yet, approaching 30,000 notes but not there. As long as scalability doesn't rear its ugly head and EN rights the ship on their recent quality issues I should have no reason to change in the medium term. I doubt the Holy Grail of PIMs will be arriving in the near term. The Holy Grail of task management has a better chance of arriving first. Now if EN management decides to make their product a pure note taking app, that would be a different story. And I do remember that Ecco did go paws up....

Is that Bladerunner music in the background? Might work for keyworders, no tags in sight as far as I could tell.