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How do you deal with the access to the asset if you change providers?

You don't want a new EN account, which I am inferring from your post. Just sign in to your "old" EN account on the new Android and the sync should start.

Yeah, but as soon as you access the note (if it is not in an offline notebook) you will download it. Or am I missing the point of the thread? It's happened before.

First check on the web to be sure the notes are there. If they are you might try modifying one of the notes on the iPad,or adding a temporary tag like Fix.It and then synching on the iPad and then your PC to see if it breaks the logjam. You can also check the activity log on your PC to see if there are any error messages in there. If it is the local DB on your desktop that somehow got out of "sync" then sometimes modifying a note forces the sync. If not reloading your DB to the PC ends up being the solution. As long as the notes are on the web.

And you could add a recurring reminder in FollowUpThen so as to get an email each day to be sure you review the note.

Yeah, can't argue with the Work Chat comments, cleaning up some bugs would make more sense to me. It may be more use case or style, @Yvel, but I think I am doing what you mention above. I have all of my receipts, statements, policies, tax returns and detail, manuals, reference materials, inventory pictures, etc. in EN. Almost 30k notes worth, 40% in local notebooks, 8 notebooks total. I don't have an archive tag nor an archived stack. I use tags to shrink the search pool and then text.to get to the 20-25 notes that contain what I am seeking. Would an archive function be beneficial, sure it would. I guess I react to statements like "really limits the value". Just would like to understand what has been tried and doesn't work. Inquiring mind kind of stuff. But again, it could just be my use case. FWIW.

Perhaps a listing of the things you cannot do without the feature that really limits the value to you would help the EN developers understand the use case.

Out of interest is meat brain a reference to the Terry Bisson short? I heard it on a podcast recently, I wonder how those beings would view this AI discussion?

I'm all for note level encryption, but I don't think we need to include "safe" computer protection in the mix. This can be managed with normal Windows screen saver password protection. Protect EN and everything else that's open on the home/work system.

You can add a row to the table and enter x's in the columns until you get the widths you want. Color the x's white and you don't see them. Example below. This will fix the width of the columns.

You got it Alan. I'm just using Excel as Excel, if you will forgive the phrasing, and EN as the central storage location to enable access from multiple platforms. Some might use Dropbox I suppose. I also get the benefits of historical backups and having the contents of the model being searchable. I have about 300 notes with spreadsheets in them, so not many. FWIW.

Cal: That's sure a novel approach using Excel as described. Would appreciate a clear example... would you mind conjuring up a little case study which we can all see? Thanks much in advance, ~ Alan Pretty simple Alan. I use EN tables for templates, like a phone call log, or to organize non computational information. For example I was an executor on an estate so a table of all the particulars of the interested parties was easy to set up and use. Anything that is data intense that I want to be able to get at on multiple platforms I put in Excel and then put that worksheet in a note. Then I can access it from any platform, though view only my phone/tablet. I don't expect EN to have the ultimate in table management options. They could definitely improve the editing and formatting capabilities of tables, but so far it works okay for my needs. We haven't hit the workaround pain threshold as yet.

Probably so. My table solution is less intricate than yours. I use EN for simple tables and everything else is in Excel as an attachment to a note. And I am willing for a low level of workaround aggravation to stay in one application. Also, probably too lazy to learn another.

Me thinks she was pulling your leg @dutch and giving you a compliment. I hope anyway.

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.