SacKen

After using 10 for a month then going back to legacy... wow... what a difference. Back to it being my favorite note app. Instantly starts and the UI is responsive. It's back to being convenient and not slowing me down. BTW, I am NOT a power user. Other than text and a few pictures, I don't use most features. I only have about 20 notebooks and only two of them have double-digit notes in them (still only about 20-25 notes in those). All on a Samsung M.2 SSD and an internet connection suitable for my kids to not complain when gaming. So this is not a size or hardware issue in any way. After 25 years years developing software and managing SW teams, I've seen it before. Someone had a great idea that will make maintaining all the platforms easier and "give the user this new amazing experience that the biz dev/marketing team says we need! We just gotta start from scratch and can't just refactor the old great stuff. Trust me! It will be worth it in 5 years!" Sometimes you just gotta eat the sunk cost, throw it away and fire a few people before you're out of business.

I installed "Legacy" after initially upgrading and the new version was a hawt mess (I couldn't even resize a picture pasted in a note!). I just had to do a fresh install of Windows and figured I'd try the new Evernote version again since it had been almost a year or so. Big mistake! It takes forever to start, search seems to not show things I know are there, clicking on a link takes several seconds to show in the browser, and I counted that simply right-clicking in a note takes 13 seconds for the menu to popup. On top of that, I really don't see anything that I would consider and upgrade or improvement over the old version. Just more bloat and ***** that get in the way of the simple action I need to perform. I came here to see if the hanging was something with my install, but looks like I'll just have to go back to Legacy. After many years of using Evernote, it may be time to start looking for an alternative since it looks like they've gone down the bad path of so many of the old applications I've had to abandon recently. (Quicken was the most heart-wrenching. Been using it since the early 90s.)