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carehart

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  1. Man, that's sad to hear. It's just one more reason I've been loathe to drop Legacy (loss of certain key UI features--in Legacy but not in new--are another).

    But here's one more thing you should prepare for: that export of all notes you did (all or by notebook) you did in Legacy? Try doing that in the new app. Can't be done: export can only be done on notes (not notebooks or all notes)--and even then you'll find you can't SELECT more than 100 notes at a time.

    Not meaning to hijack your thread. I came to the forums today searching for info on this matter and found your note first. If there's a good thread (and especially a solution) on this other matter, someone can share it here (I may, if I find a good one). Just sharing that challenge, as kind of "the reverse side of the coin" about your import.

    Hope we may hear some solution on that import matter...and before the drop dead date.

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  2. This discussion of exporting has helped me realize something I never paid attention to even in the Legacy client: the enex file does NOT track what NOTEBOOK notes were in! For those who knew that already, you can move on. (And yep, PinkElephant mentioned it above.) For those like me who never considered that, and its implications, you may want to read on (if you do use lots of notebooks and a hierarchy of them).

    With the discussion here of how we could export one notebook at a time in the new UI, it made me wonder how that differed from my years of using the Legacy app's ability to select and export "all notes".

    I just checked (in such an enex created in the old client) and I see now that in the xml underlying the enex format, it's simply got each note (in HTML format). There is no indication of what notebook each note was in.  I never considered that THAT "metadata" would not also be exported.

    In fact, there's NO mention in the enex of notebook names at ALL, so not only do you lose what notes were in what notebooks, you also have no backup of any representation what notebooks you had, or what stacks, or any hierarchy to notebooks.

    I'm sure some will say, "dude, that's all the export ever was". I'm just saying I didn't even think to confirm that until this discussion led me to wonder.

    Again, I HOPE that among the improvements in the new UI is a "true" export with even just notebook metadata. (And sure, others will wonder also about tags, favorites, saved searches, and more.)

    Others may argue we should "just backup the exb file" (what EN processes as out evernote db), as it has "everything". And sure, if one just wants to restore it for recovery within EN, that works. But some of us are indeed wanting a "backup" for the sake of perhaps taking our notes (and their structure) to use with another apps. And I'm not aware that other apps yet import from the (binary) exb file.

    I just never realized until today how it would be impossible to retain that relationship or note to notebook (or notebook hierarchy), in any more based on having saved the enex as an export.  (I'm sure some will be wanting to point out how they knew this and have lamented it, and perhaps it's been discussed in other forum threads here. Sorry, I don't read them all.  I came to this one today in tripping over more things in the new client, and wanting to "export all" from the new client, only to find out how hard it is.)

    And I do realize others will point out how this is all just more of the evil plan the Evernote team has to "lock us in". Maybe they do. Maybe they will be reconsidering btter export capabilities. A boy can have dreams.

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  3. Thanks to those pointing how the new UI provides for us to at least export one notebook at a time, but that will be laborious (if not unacceptable) for any with dozens or hundreds (or more) of them. And while switching to the Legacy app is a short-term workaround, I sure hope SOME better solution if forth-coming in the new client. (All this discussion of export options led to a new discovery for me, which I'll share in a different note.)

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  4. 2 hours ago, Pedro N Fonseca said:

    Same for me: Ctrl-B, Ctrl-I, ... stopped working. But useless shortcuts such as 🐘 are working!... So much for QA...

    I am using

    10.6.9-win-ddl-public (2254)
    Editor: v116.1.14913
    Service: v1.26.7
     

    FWIW, I'm on the exact same versions as Pedro (every aspect listed), and I do NOT find ctrl-b or ctrl-i failing to work for me. Just thought that may be of interest to some.  

    To be clear, I'm just another user, and I appreciate that when such expected keys stop working for folks, it will be annoying.

    And trust me, I miss others (like f6), and really there is MUCH about the new Windows client that frustrates me daily, coming from 12 years on the old client. Those issues seem less to be "bugs" but more simply about design decisions, where someone in authority thinks some behavior we had before should not continue. I know the team is working to get more things "back" (where some may come back, while others will be deemed "no longer needed"). I am getting more motivated to try out alternatives.

  5. On 5/17/2020 at 10:41 AM, DTLow said:

    Do you need assistance on how to title your notes?

    Dtlow, it seems you did not read any of the other msgs in this thread. 95% of them express how the "assistance" we seek is simply to have EN on Android do what EN on Windows does, which is create the note title out of the first line for us

    And here we are now 6 years since the first post, and still the feature is missing (the bug/annoyance remains). And with the coming new Windows client, we could even lose this feature there (since it seems a goal is a more "unified" client experience). 

  6. Come on. 4 years now and we're still waiting? This Auto-title by first line is how it works in windows. Why not the same option in android? And an *option* would be fine (like the other two current Auto-title options which are offered). 

    That addresses those who don't want this, and further, the feature could only save the first line as the title if no other title was added before the note was saved. 

    It's not just "an extra step" to do this ourselves. It's 8!--realize that what you're typing is in the body, tap it, choose the android copy/paste feature's icon for more options, choose "select all" , copy, click in title, paste, click back in note to continue. That's vs 0 steps on Windows. 

    (and yes, one could say, just click in the title field before typing, but if we don't enter notes in the android app often, it's just not that simple, if you're used to the windows app's handling this. If it started out typing in the note, as a different option, maybe that would be different.) 

    I've run into this a few dozen times the past few years and am just shocked this remains unresolved since first raised then. 

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