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Allow searches of special characters and stop words
CalS replied to Bobokie9999's question in General Feature Requests
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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.
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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....
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Good point Frank. For me, GTD or task type items pose that "Well, I might need to remember this some day..." question. And you know the one you delete is the one you will need, Murphy has to rear his head. Removing notes is even less clear for non-GTD items for me. So rather than go through the brain damage, tags and search are my friends. I will do the occasional pruning when something truly dead shows up in a search, mostly a result of bad habits early on in my journey with EN, but I don't go out of my way to purge or archive. Don't think time saved exceeds the time invested. My use case anyway.
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Adam, Don't know that there is a best practice. It depends upon what you want to do with EN. There are other threads in the forum that addressing archiving, if that is the way you decide to go. Quick summary of options I have seen: Leave notes in place when done Delete notes when done Move notes to "Done" Notebook(s) when done Tag notes with "Archive" or the like when donePersonally I leave them where they are. Maybe I will clean up but don't think it's worth the effort for me at this point (27k notes). Options 3 and 4 enable exclusion of the archived notes when searching. If I wanted to archive, I would use option 3. Easier to have a stack of current notebooks and not worry about a -tag:archive search. Though if you have a lot of notebooks, which I don't, option 4 might be better. FWIW.
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Can't delete a note!
CalS replied to bobzani's topic in Evernote for Windows Issues (Versions 6.25.1 and under)
You are welcome, Bob. -
Can't delete a note!
CalS replied to bobzani's topic in Evernote for Windows Issues (Versions 6.25.1 and under)
Could try creating a dummy note and seeing if you can merge the two and then delete it. Could try shutting down and restarting EN. The other end of the spectrum would be to reload your data base from the servers. -
How to sort the text within a note
CalS replied to Howard Hill's question in General Feature Requests
Shame EN doesn't invest the energy as per all the above recent posts.... ;-) -
How to revert back to old version of a note?
CalS replied to Dangledude's topic in Evernote General Discussions
@dangledude, Not sure it makes any difference at this point, but are the times the same on your devices? -
Sentinel, Don't be so hard on yourself. Annoyances have a cumulative effect. Your data issue plus the myriad reports of software errors and a vacuum of communications take their toll. Now that we know our data is protected how's about fixing some of the issues with getting to it. Avid user here, not interested in transitioning to some other platform in any way. Would just like EN to perform per specifications, nothing to do with my preferences. Those trouble tickets I have submitted which have been confirmed as errors that have gone into the black hole of development priorities. Those would be good to hear about. Just saying...
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@GM Both would not only be fine, but maybe required, IMO. Theoretically, what do you do when you take a note out of an encrypted notebook? Wouldn't that note have been encrypted while in the encrypted notebook? I'm just saying if it is easier to implement note level encryption (relative term and I would guess it is) then a Ctrl-A and a right click menu as a part of the process gets you there, with note level integrity. FWIW. Full disclosure - I don't use a lot of notebooks which influences my view of the universe.
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With you 100%. To go off topic, if it were me, I'd ask for note level encryption. Better personal use case and I can only imagine the hair on notebook level encryption when you start moving and sharing notes.
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Perhaps @mapjr could clear the air as to the intent of his statement? Problem with the written word is that" I would like to see..." and "It should be as easy as..." don't mean the same thing to all people. Might be best to question the intent before jumping as well, I suppose.
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I am 100% on board with the issues detailed in this thread relative to EN's lack of support, poor communications, and quality control issues. EN is not a well run company at the moment. On the other hand, my use case has not been impacted that much by all of the above. In fact, the most recent Windows releases brought back instantaneous searches and response times. I don't get the not responding message anymore. The IOS versions are as quick. Not as big a data base as most on here I suppose, 15GB, 26k notes, 60% synced/40% local, but hopefully enough to test the beast.. I guess I am not motivated to toss in the towel at this point. The pain of changing my practices and learning something new outweighs the pain of dealing with EN. It just isn't hurting bad enough yet. Maybe they will fix themselves, maybe they won't. For sure I am doing automated ENEX backups until that is determined. I may be just fully missing something (wouldn't be the first time), am being totally myopic, or just have my head firmly in the sand, or someplace else. So best alternative to En for me at the moment is EN. FWIW.