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This drives me crazy. It refreshes at every opportunity taking me back to the home screen. I have to say EN for IOS and IPad is awful. A truly painful experience.

In EN for the MAC when I am in a note I don't see a reminder/clock button in the little tool bar for the note. All there is is a space for tags and a green share button. I can click on the dots to the right of the share button to get a drop down menu for reminders, but this is annoying. Anybody know how to get the clock button back? Pic attached..showing an absence of buttons!

DOH! I just realized I can add a reminder with no date. This is basically just special tag. Never realized this!

Quick follow on question. By using reminders, you are setting a due date for all tasks - correct?

Very interesting. I think I need to learn more about the syntax for the reminder searches.

I know this thread is a bit old, but my question is how do you complete tasks? I've found that any GTD based system always involves a lot of removing of tags once a task is complete otherwise the task/note keeps showing up. I know you could just delete the task/note, but that doesn't seem right to me - I like a record of what I've done. How do you manage the "task completion process?"

This was the first time in several years that I really went down the rabbit hole of checking out alternatives. The grass really isn't greener on the other side! I would add that I am really encouraged by what we're hearing from the EN management - these new videos are excellent. Can't wait to get my hands on the new editor!

.. here are my thoughts/experiences. My first note was made 10 years ago June 2009. I've used it entirely for all my personal stuff - travel, finances, kids report cards, music, web clips and on and off I've used it for work stuff - reference materials, meeting notes and even GTD. However, with all the talk and rumors about EN sustainability, I decided to try out alternatives. Here's what I found. 1. Bear. I am an amateur musician (not a very good one). In music a common notation for a sharp is a #. Bear treats this as a tag. So storing your music in bear is a non-starter. You could use other symbols, but why? Also Bear is another company, with a subscription plan that's just younger than EN. Why should Bear last any more than EN? 2. Apple Notes. Pretty good and free. But web clipping is non existent. Scanning is hard. Sync can be slow over icloud. You can't tag easily. Search is limited. 3. Notebooks.app. I really thought this one might be good. Idea is you store your notes in dropbox and then Notebooks creates a little file with meta data (tag, due date etc) for the note. Your notes are in a native format - rtf , pdf, html etc so no proprietary system. People seem to rave about it and it has nice IOS apps. But - no web clipper. There's a script you can use, but it's not great. And the big issue - I imported 1000 notes from EN and while it worked OK ish on the mac, my ipad froze. Suggestion from the developer was - don't put all your notes in one folder. Not helpful. Oh and sync is very very slow because you're layering the app's work on top of dropbox's sync. 4. Devonthink. DT is great if you are writing your manifesto/dissertation/research project and you've got 100s of reference docs (pdfs, clips, notes). DT has OCR and advanced AI to search and find links in all these files. But if you just want to organize some travel details, it is complete overkill. Plus, it's clunky and the learning curve is awful. It's expensive, but there are no ongoing fees. DT is a research grade program. 5. Google Keep. Is a bit of a joke really. 6. Notion. If you like spending a lot of time arranging things on a desktop then it's great. But it's still a proprietary system (unlike notebooks and devonthink where your content is stored in open files). And again - how do you know Notion will be around tomorrow. 7. OneNote. On the Mac it is pretty bad. They finally added search for to-dos, but you can't really create tags. On windows it's pretty good. Exporting from Onenote is not good. For example pdfs get exported as multi page image files. So I am 100% back to evernote. It has issues, sure, it's not perfect, but it's a lot better (at least for me) than the alternatives. Here are a few of my most fave things about Evernote. 1. Drag a note onto another note to create an instant link in that note. This is so awesome - I create master reference notes super easily. 2. You can search for unchecked to-dos. 3. You can save searches. 4. It is fast. 5. Even though your data is in evernote format, my experience has been that if you want to extract it to other programs, you always can. You have an exit strategy. Sure it costs. But I pay for Dropbox, I pay for Lightroom, I don't mind paying for Evernote. If you think you can get a good robust app for no-money then you are kidding yourself. Anyhow, just my 2 cents.

Oh wow!!! Thanks! Works great.

I want to be able to provide a link to a note from Things 3. But however I cut and paste the link from desktop evernote I always get a link to the web version not the Mac OS version of EN. This is very frustrating. I know other apps allow you to create a link that will link back to the app. The link should look like this...if it worked... evernote:///view/**** etc. not https://www.evernote.com/*** etc. Any suggestions? thanks

I messed around with other apps - Devonthink, notebooksapp etc. I have to say, the EN just works better for me. I can get exactly what i want easily from it. I will say that the ios phone app is my least favorite part of the experience, but I keep coming back to the desktop app as it just works.

More than just resizing images in terms of their overall file size, I'd like to be able to have an image not span the entire width of a note. If you could drag the corner of the image to make it smaller and allow text to wrap around it - that would be great.