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Owyn

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  1. Yeah. I would have at most 2 tags for this use case. "Craft" and "StampSet".
  2. Thanks for the proposal. You're right, flattening out the directory path into the title is a feasible workaround and probably my means of choice. Nevertheless it's a bit of a drag with growing complexity and only of moderate elegancy ;-). Just imagine a little adjustment in "directory structure" leading to editing all of the titles. Harald Yep. There are times I would kill for a regexp find & replace for a collection of note titles. On the other hand, the adjustment in structure may not be that useful. What you are talking about is essentially a view problem. Tags and/or saved searches may be an adequate alternative. If I need an elegant solution to a specific data management problem then in all probability Evernote may not be a perfect solution. The issue becomes one of is it good enough. In many cases the answer is yes. In some cases the answer is that some other tool is needed for the job. e.g. I have very large media libraries. I would not even think of using Evernote to manage those libraries, however, I do use Evernote to keep track of potential acquisitions for those libraries. The art of the possible.
  3. I usually put structure into my note titles. e.g "Hardware - Scanner - ...", "Evernote - Web -..", "Client - Project -.." etc.
  4. Tested NixNote 1.1 on Ubuntu 10.04 via PPA install. http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/10/ever ... note-adds/ Extremely high memory and cpu utilization on my 7000 note database. Other observed problems and limitations. The web client remains my first choice for a general access Linux client.
  5. PS: Adding external tagging is probably a non-trivial technical problem for Evernote. Each tag has a uid (unique identifier) in the user database which shares the notebook. The current limitation ensures that any tags assigned by linked users have a valid uid in the original database.
  6. You can still use project tags. You just need an efficient and timely way to handle new projects. e.g. You could create a tag "NewProject" which could be used pending assigning the actual project code.
  7. No, but, the current situation is not all bad. Assuming that there are a limited number of project identifiers and qualifiers that are valid as tags, then, having that explicitly limited is a way to prevent bad data entry. I use a limited number of high level tags but feel free to add keywords as needed to note titles or bodies to ensure that I can find a specific note in the future. The biggest mistake I made when I started to use Evernote was to continue the extensive tagging practices that I had developed as a long term Delicious user. The aha moment came when I started to see notes found in search results because they contained the text I was looking for in the content. My 2cents.
  8. I looked at it briefly when I was evaluating my Linux + Evernote options. I decided against it in favor of Evernote in a Windows Virtual Machine. But, my decision was very easy because I already had the VM available to support two other Windows only applications. There have been a lot of changes since then (It is now Nixnote 1.0). Just added it to my Ubuntu 11.10 application test list. I have a old Dell test notebook hanging around (currently Fedora Core 12) that I am planning to rebuld in mid to end of October. I want to give 11.10 a week or two to settle before I do any tests. You should check baumgarr's posts for more info.
  9. There are/were some known problems with Wine+Evernote. viewtopic.php?f=56&t=18674&start=50#p105127 I have just scheduled a retest with the very recent release of Wine 1.3.28 and new public Evernote Windows 4.5.1.
  10. Probably. I watched the demo and read through their site. The Free Basic account let's you set up 3 mindmaps. Implementing the new forum might be a good test case for you. I am planning to check it out, but, am currently a bit backlogged on testing new things. :? PS: The generic term is "mind mapping".
  11. http://www.mindmeister.com/blog/2011/09 ... -evernote/ https://www.mindmeister.com/pricing
  12. Current bug in web client/service. Agreed. Evernote does a great job of replacing Delicious and Browser bookmarks. My use of browser tabs is way down now, clip and close. But, I still use other apps e.g. Google Docs/Spreadsheets, Remember the Milk, etc. for what they do best. Evernote is a good repository but it is not, and should not be, a swiss army knife.
  13. Agreed. I ended up using prefixed tags to get around this problem.
  14. Ummm. I use EN4 in a VirtualBox Win XP virtual machine. I periodically retest EN4 via Wine.
  15. Nah. This is a single pass scan. No sorting. Just compares. And, bubble sort, can NOT be fully described in a single, non-compound, sentence. ---------- Ummm. Re-read your comment. Never mind my comment about single pass. You were using it as an general example, not a specific example. :?
  16. Well, it does have the advantage of being easier to explain. Which usually results in a more likely to be correct implementation. The best, and most likely, implementation of either algorithm would pick the first "largest" in the event of a tie. My guess is that in most cases (>90%) either algorithm would pick the same image for the thumbnail. Hmmm. Not sure which algorithm is more likely to pick the squarer image. Squarer usually results in a more recognizable thumbnail. Probably a toss up.
  17. An alternative is the image with the largest number of pixels. This is a good predictor of importance of the image to the note's content. e.g. 75x100=7500 100x400=40000 200x300=60000 250x150=37500 Largest -> 200x300=60000
  18. @travisp Your results are consistent with my own. I decided against VirtualBox seamless mode in favor of running the guest VM on it's own desktop with maximized guest VM window. I lose a little of the screen but on a 24" 1920x1068 display that does not make much of a difference. I also decided a while back to give up on a clean paste from Linux apps to either VirtualBox or Wine EN. I instead paste to Web EN. Currently using FF4 with new EN Web interface. Previously using Chrome but recent problems with Chrome clipper, plus desire to give FF4 a full workout, has pushed me to FF. The biggest problems I have with Wine EN are: - Performance - Can not handle paste of text with diacriticals - Things break, e.g. recent problem with import folders The biggest problems I have with VirtualBox EN are: - Paste as text from Linux apps. - Very restrictive integration wth host file system - Frequent loss of keyboard in guest. Minimizing and restoring guest window restores the keyboard.
  19. Ran into a VirtualBox/Evernote gotcha. Evernote can not import a network attached folder. VirtualBox implements guest Shared folders (ie. host folders) as network folders. Also drag & drop from e.g. Nautilus does not work. Explicit copy and paste results in pasting the text of the Linux(host) path to the file. Bah. Sigh. Oh well. Drag & drop via Windows Explorer in guest VM does work. Update: Tested on Wine EN -Drag & Drop from Nautilus to Wine EN works. -Import folder on Wine Z: drive (host file system) can be added but later fails. No files are imported and Wine Evernote.exe process goes into cpu bound loop. Update2: Tools->Import Folder->Remove locks up EN Wine. Now I have to find where that setting is stored.
  20. Installed auto-update to EN 4.3.0.4217 without problem. No new problems noted. Existing problems persist. Ubuntu 10.04 Wine 1.3.15
  21. Here you are. Used same test text as above.
  22. Just noticed that paste from a Linux app into VB4.0.4 EN4 client is still paste-as-text. e.g. Copy some text from an OO doc with e.g. bolding, etc. of text. The styling is lost when pasted to a new note in client, but, is still present when pasted to a new note in Linux Chrome web client. Other user reported that the problem did not exist using the VMWare client. Looking into whether I can safely use VirtualBox and the free VMWare player on same host system to confirm that this is so. So, my prior comment was incorrect. Just a worse case variant on pasting text with diacriticals into Wine EN. If the diacriticals are near the start of the pasted text then the automatic title generated by EN4 can contain invalid characters and cause the infinite error dialog loop.
  23. Re-tested with Wine 1.3.15 and Evernote 4.2.2.3900. No obvious changes from prior tests with one exception. Used the following as test text in Linux copy buffer. Édith Piaf (French pronunciation: [eˈdit pjaf], [PEE-ahf, pee-AHF] 19 December 1915 – 11 October 1963), born Édith Giovanna Gassion, was a French singer and cultural icon who became universally regarded as France's greatest popular singer.[1] Her singing reflected her life, with her specialty being ballads. Among her songs are "La Vie en rose" (1946), "Non, je ne regrette rien" (1960), "Hymne à l'amour" (1949), "Milord" (1959), "La Foule" (1957), "l'Accordéoniste" (1955), and "Padam... Padam..." (1951). Paste into new note in EN via VirtualBox VM works fine. Paste into new note in EN via Wine has corrupted characters and goes into infinite loop of error dialogs about invalid characters in title. Had to "kill -SIGKILL" all the evernote.exe processes. i.e. paste from linux app now works properly in VM.
  24. I use Virtual Box on Ubuntu 10.04 host with a Windows XP guest VM. As andrei said there are a few clunky items, e.g. paste as text from a linux app, but overall very usable. I have been tracking Evernote 4 with Wine devel releases and Virtual Box stable releases for some time. See here for more info. In general my primary interaction with Evernote is clips from Chrome plus later cleanup in the Windows app via the guest VM. I also agree about the Nevernote comments. It is a good native app but I would rather have the full EN4 windows client.
  25. Updated to Wine 1.3.13 from repository. Initial update resulted in Evernote and Evernote installer failing to start. Killed all Wine and Evernote processes, removed Wine1.3.13 and re-installed, re-ran 3809 installer. Left ~/.wine intact. Worked now, but had to re-login to get EN4 going. Results seem much the same as 1.3.11 test. To recap: - Slow, slow, slow - Right-click context menus are either slow or fail to appear. - Hot keys (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-T) conflict with Ubuntu Gnome globals - Left panel items separated by horizontal lines under Wine. No lines in XP. - Paste as text/corrupted special characters from Linux apps (this also occurs in VirtualBox VM) - Tray icon context menu shows up in unpredictable locations - Left click of column header changes sort order but does not show sorted icon(up/down diamond) - DebugView crashes Evernote There are a lot of things which work just fine, but, for my purposes the VirtualBox VM approach is still the preferred way to go.
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