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  1. Some first thoughts on AI Note Cleanup: The AINC button appeared in my notes yesterday morning. When one clicks, one gets the disclaimer about the beta, including that note information would be shared with a third party. That prospect doesn't bother me for most of the notes I create, but your mileage may vary. And, as others have pointed out, the feature is totally "opt in" - AINC gets applied only to individual notes when user requests it. A short note took about 10 seconds to run through AINC; a medium note (950 characters) about 25 seconds; a longer note (3500 characters) was significantly longer - maybe close to a minute. I can see why, at least in beta, the feature is limited to notes up to 6000 characters. In my medium note, AINC accurately fixed misspellings of "university-wde" (should be "wide"), sumerr ("summer") and tmrw (tomorrow). That last spelling was intentional - that's how I usually write "tomorrow" in my notes. That correction made me think that it would be nice if there were a text expander feature built into AINC, customizable by each user. For instance, i could set the feature so that when I type ACO, AINC automatically changes that to "Acme Insurance Company". As promoted, AINC seems to be intended especially for notes of a meeting. I think the feature can work really well there, but I can understand why it might not work so well on recipes and other lists of instructions. I was a bit disappointed that AINC didn't do more with spiffying up the formatting of the notes. The notes I have tried it on have all being ones I created using the "Meeting Note" template, so they are already pretty structured. I'll see what happens when I run AINC on a less structured note (e.g. notes that I write to myself to record information relevant to a particular project.) To the extent AINC is used on meeting notes, I don't mind that there isn't a "compare" function, since if I took the notes and was at the meeting, I know what did and didn't happen and can tweak the post-AINC note accordingly. But if it is intended to be a feature with a broader use, it would be important to be able to identify the changes that AINC made.
  2. The "AI Cleanup" button popped up in my EN this morning, and I tried it a few times - definitely helpful. I will post a new thread with my thoughts later today. As noted above, the feature is NOT messing with your notes automatically. You have to affirmatively run it on each note, one at a time.
  3. Per info here - https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/16280830963091-AI-Note-Cleanup-Overview - AI Note Cleanup will be opt-in on a note-by-note basis. At least initially, one has to load the specific note to which one wants to apply the cleanup. Maybe at some point there will be the ability to select a small number of notes for Note Cleanup in one command, but I suspect that won't happen soon. The feature has a max of 6000 characters and will take some computer processing power, so I'd guess that Evernote will keep it note-by-note for the time being.
  4. I haven't logged into the laptop yet, but the search results on my desktop now include the "false positives" again. For example, for the search for notes updated or created within the previous 2 days, instead of 44 notes (which is the number I get when I do the search on Evernote Web) there are now 441 notes. I remembered that I had not logged out of Evernote on my work desktop (though I did close the app last night before I left my office). When I am back in the office next Tuesday I will log out from the work desktop as well, then log out at home and see what happens. I should log out on my Android phone as well.
  5. Just logged out of both my home desktop and laptop, with the "save data at log out" NOT selected. As I logged out I also selected "Remove my Evernote data from this device". Then logged back in on my desktop (which took a while). The date-restricted searches are working correctly - no false positives. Later in the day I'll see what happens when I log in on the laptop.
  6. New development - the "false positives" returned on my desktop. I wonder if running the search on my laptop and getting wrong results triggered the problem to return on the desktop (upon syncing, presumably). I'll log out in both places and see if that solves the problem. To be continued!
  7. Thanks to both of you for your suggestions - on point, as usual. When I tried the search on EN Web, it returned the correct results. When I unclicked "save data", that didn't solve the problem. But that plus logged out and in again (I think I had to do it twice, curiously) took care of the problem. Interestingly, the results are correct on my desktop, but are still wrong on my laptop (where I haven't yet turned off save data and logged out and in). Maybe the problem is related to having lots of notes in the account. Thanks again!
  8. Hi all - I have a number of saved searches that include the created: and updated: search terms. For a while, those terms have returned way too many notes in the search results. For example: created:day-2 should return notes with a creation date within the past two days. It does return those notes, but also about 400 other notes that do not have a creation date in that period. For example, the search returns a note with a created & updated date of July 16, 1991. The only common factor appears to be that the notes are all ones where I modified the creation date to an earlier date (usually to match the date of a document I scanned). However, these other notes were not created or updated in the two day period, and there are other notes that I "backdated" that don't appear in the search results. Same happens when I search for updated:day-2. The same thing happens even I use the date instead of the day- formulation. So on 10/21/2021 (today as I post this), these two searches produce the same results: updated:day-2 updated:20211019 I've deleted and recreated the saved searches multiple times, so the problem isn't because they were created while using the now-legacy version. Any thoughts? If there were some other search term that I could add to get around that problem, that would be fine, too. By the way, I'm on the Evernote Personal plan, and have over 25,000 notes saved.
  9. To Nordseo re the "multiple assignee" workaround: When one is within a ntoe and has an existing task and presses enter, EN sets up to create a new task. So one could copy the text of a task, press Enter, paste the copied info, then replicate the due date, reminder & flag status from the original task but enter a different assignee. The tasks themselves aren't directly linked, but they all would point back to the same note, so one could monitor all of the assignees from there. Also, if the task to the multiple assignees has the same due date or all, the tasks would display reasonably close together in the Tasks window if viewed by date (same due date). Even if they don't have the same date, the tasks would be sequential if the Tasks list is viewed by note (since they are in the same note). If one had dozens of assignees this workaround would be unwieldy, but I imagine that isn't a frequent need.
  10. Thanks for the timely reminder, ChristianJB. I expect that recurring tasks will be coming soon (my guess would be by end of Northern Hemisphere's summer). A quick plug for one other item on the "what's next for tasks" list - multiple flags. For my personal use case, recurring tasks would be useful for home tasks, less so for work tasks. But multiple flags would be useful every day, as long as I could filter the Task List to display only flags of a particular color. That would be a perfect way to distinguish home from work tasks; there's one other major project that I do that I would assign a third flag color. There are workarounds (e.g. putting info or a special character in the name of a task), but multiple flags would make a HUGE difference to the usefulness of the Tasks feature for me. If there were enough flag colors (10-15, as PinkElephant suggested elsewhere, would be more than enough), I could use the flags both for distinguishing home from work tasks and for giving particular tasks the highest priority. So, for example, red flag could be highest priority (#1-Now in GTD); blue flag could be work; green flag could be home. So if I could show tasks with red and green or red and blue flags, I would be set! That said - from Early Access to now I have found Tasks immensely helpful. Maybe I should have been using a tasks app all along (I probably would have chosen Todoist), but what's in EN Tasks now, combined with what's coming, should be enough for my needs.
  11. Thanks. I uninstalled EN Android and reinstalled and that got me to the right version.
  12. Update - I was finally able to sign out of EN on Android and sign back in, but that didn't solve the problem. Still no Tasks; still version 10.12.1.
  13. I saw in a General Discussion thread that EN was suggesting logging out of EN and logging back in to try to solve problems with Tasks access. On Android, I can't log out of EN. When I try to sign out, I get a whirling circle for a while and then nothing happens. Meanwhile, on my Windows desktop at home, Tasks and EN seem to be working fine, personal version. I logged out on my desktop and logged back in. Still having problems with Android.
  14. Hi - when the new Evernote plans rolled out yesterday, I shifted from Premium to Personal. However, on Android I am locked out of Tasks, which no longer appears as an option. When I use the button at bottom of screen to try to create a new task, I get a message "Tasks not enabled - Update your Evernote version to keep using tasks". I then noticed that my EN version on Android is 10.12.1, which is apparently not the latest version. Is there a way for me to update to 10.13.1, which might solve the Tasks problem? I've gone to the Android Play Store but there is no update available there.
  15. That would be my guess. I would add that I think the Plus plan will have a stripped-down Tasks feature, the lesser Premium plan the current Tasks feature (the one in early access), and the maximum Premium plan will include updates to Tasks (e.g. recurring tasks). I don't see Tasks being part of the Free version (though I wouldn't mind being wrong), but Home will be there. Sure, we could just wait for Evernote's actual announcement in the next few weeks. But what's the fun in that?
  16. I have a number of saved searches where what I want to do is find notes that were created within a certain # of days or updated within the same # of days. For example, one search is: any: created:day-2 updated:day-2 The searches don't work the way that I would expect - they seem to pull in many more notes than the specified categories. For example, the response to the above search includes a note that has created and updated date of July 25, 1989. I saw some forum posts identifies this problem with EN releases before version 10; is this still an issue in the newest version? I've been using this set of searches for quite a while, through many EN versions, and the responses always seem overinclusive. FYI, putting parentheses around some of the search terms changes the results, but seems not to solve the problem.
  17. Thanks - I did a force reload and that solved the problem. (I thought I had already tried that, but maybe I was mistaken.) FYI, haven't had this problem on my Windows desktop at work, either - happened only on one computer.
  18. I'm using Tasks Early Access on several Windows computers and on my Android phone. This morning Tasks EA disappeared from EN on my Windows desktop - EN version is 10.16.7. The "Tasks Early Access" option does not appear on the left side of the screen. The green button on the left side no longer has the "New Task" option. When I go to a note with a Task, there is a message: Content not supported. This block is a placeholder for a beta feature.... In the meantime, I can still see my Tasks on my Android phone, and the Tasks EA seems to be working fine there. I've run "Check for Updates" on the Windows desktop a few times, but there's no update. Should I download EN again and reinstall, even though I have the current version?
  19. Does the latest EN Windows version with the return of the import folder ALSO have Tasks Early Access?
  20. Re the "single flag attribute" that was my initial take as well. But in working with Tasks the past few days, I realized that since my GTD tagging was setting priorities primarily on when items needed to be done, the due date option essentially accomplishes the same thing. In fact, it might avoid a problem I had with my GTD simulation in Evernote - I would tag something as, say, a #3-Soon, but if I didn't get to the task for a few weeks, it might become a #2-Next and then a #1-Now with the passage of time - but I often wouldn't have time to re-review the notes and change the tags. Being encouraged to select a specific due date for each task also means that the task priority goes up over time, at least when the list is viewed sorted by due date. If with this system I can actually keep track of my tasks better and do them in a more efficient manner, I won't miss the lack of tagging. Presumably if I need more context or info re a task, I could include it in a note that I could tag. So the tagging option is always available. If would imagine Tasks will be searchable at some point soon (shouldn't be too hard to program), but I may not miss that possibility either. As with all things Evernote, "your mileage may vary".
  21. An idea comes to me - the staggering of due dates could work well for GTD purposes. The due date window for Tasks has shortcut buttons for today, tomorrow, next Monday and in a week. Those time periods will work well for some users, less well for others (not me). Would be interesting if the shortcut buttons could be customizable for different time periods. For me, "today", "end of this week", "end of next week" and "one month from now" would be more useful.
  22. I'm very excited about Tasks being available; downloaded it today for my laptop and desktop. Looks nice! First pressing question is how to use Tasks with GTD. The main missing feature is not being able to label tasks 1 to 6 in terms of urgency (now, next, soon, later, someday, waiting for someone else's response). I guess flagging a task could be the equivalent of 1. A way-in-the-future due date could be the equivalent of "someday". Not sure what to do with the rest (other than forgetting about them and trying to go with the Tasks workflow). Thoughts welcomed!
  23. If I change the key combination for a particular global shortcut, does that change apply to my account (i.e. on any computer that I use to load Evernote) or just to the specific computer that I make the change on?
  24. I tag, a fair amount. Have done it for years. However, I find keeping up with tagging tedious. Way back when, Michael Hyatt recommended tagging new notes each evening. I try, but I always fall behind, then feel pressured to catch up. I tag for two reasons: to help me find specific note(s) and to be able to set up specific views via searches (e.g. just work-related notes, which are tagged @work). I find the task of tagging so tedious that I wonder if I should give it up. Are there any formerly regular taggers who have mostly or totally stopped tagging and are still good with how they use Evernote? Is the search function robust enough at this point that most tagging is unnecessary? (Especially if the tag is a word that appears in the same document.) FYI - if I stopped tagging, I wouldn't replace that with an increased # of notebooks. That would just replace one tedium with another. And I wouldn't stop tagging entirely - would only do it when I have time. (For instance, I may tag items I'm saving with the Web Clipper, at the same time I am adding a comment.) I'm also cognizant that most people don't tag at all.
  25. Very glad to see that the new filter feature enables filtering by dates created or updated. As a "power user" I learned EN search grammar, but I imagine that less than 5% of users take advantage of the search limiters. Making it possible to filter by date - something a lot of software has had for years (e.g. Gmail's search function) - is a big improvement for the average user not using search grammar.
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