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I wish they had left well enough alone. It didn't use to change the updated field when those actions were performed but at some point (don't ask me what version, it's been a couple of years or so), the updated field started behaving this way... and it's annoying. I sort by updated to keep my "active" notes at the top. And just looking at the contents w/o actually making textual changes makes "old" notes pop to the top.

7 minutes ago, p1154 said:

.. I am told it will not be added.  

Did they provide their rationale for why they don't want to change how the updated flag is managed?

21 minutes ago, eric99 said:

Yep. By the way, I would never decrypt my notes on the EN server because this defeats the whole point of encryption. Instead I would write an ENEX to 'decrypted' ENEX tool, in case I would migrate to another note taking tool. Starting from my ENEX to HTML code, it's not that dificult...

edit: or perhaps encrypt it in a different format, known by the target app or something?

Might you be persuaded to share your code? 😉

15 hours ago, eric99 said:

...except for my own Enex to Html implementation: if a password provided, my tool decrypts all encrypted content in the notes. Decryption and reconstruction of note links provides a consistent, self-contained HTML archive without losing any note content. This is my safety net in case everything else goes wrong...

How does your "Enex to Html implementation" work? Do you export EN and then run it through your HTML "converter" which also finds the encrypted text and decrypts it?

15 hours ago, Dave-in-Decatur said:

This is correct. But I assume it would be possible to subscribe for just one month, do all the re-organizing you will need, then drop back to free. Just an idea and I could be wrong!

Subscribing would allow you to re-organize into a single notebook... but you still would have to subscribe once you got to 50 notes. So, not a lot of incentive to put stuff in a single notebook.

43 minutes ago, s2sailor said:

One possibility is using a password manager such as 1Password.  That has a secure note section that would work as a nice replacement for your secure notes.

Whichever app you migrate to, the encryption scheme of Evernote will not import into any other app.  Make sure to unencrypt notes before moving them over.

I use a password vault for passwords. But there is other sensitive information in my notes that I obfuscate.

Hmm, I need to go through and un-encrypt everything first before exporting? Ouch! Looks like I'll be spending my weekend with EN for one final hurrah.

1 hour ago, s2sailor said:

50 notes is a total and one notebook is a total as well.  You don't select just one to use.  They are obviously trying to move folks off the free plan, one way or another.

Thanks for your reply. I suspected as much, but I thought I'd ask/confirm before undertaking the painful exercise of moving my notes to a different platform (probably OneNote). Even if I had fewer than 50 notes, I can't even move notes to get them into a single notebook without subscribing!

The one feature I haven't found that has kept me with EN until now has been to encrypt selected text within a note. I guess I'll have to rethink my sensitive information management... because text encryption is not worth the annual $130 (which could very easily continue to increase).

Regarding the updated free plan limits:

Can I select the one notebook I will use going forward and use that for new notes?

Is the 50 notes a total of all notes or a monthly quota?

12 minutes ago, p1154 said:

It's been a couple months.  Has anyone heard if there are any plans to add the Legacy ability to modify the "updated" date?  There are many Legacy users who depend on that feature.  Thanks!  

Crickets!

Same here, just opens Chrome to a blank tab... and Chrome is not my default browser. It should open the intended feedback page, AND it should respect the default browser setting on the PC.

10.60.4-win

Can I add that when you reveal encrypted text (for viewing only), this is not a note update.

You just want to view the encrypted text and are not changing the content of the note. The argument could be made that if one permanently decrypts some text, that's a content update. It could be argued both ways. But when just revealing the encrypted text, the update date should not be touched.

10.60.4-win

I made the mistake of updating to the latest version this morning when Evernote informed me of the "new" Evernote for Windows.

I happened to visit a note with a reminder and now I can't use the desktop app. It hangs as soon as it starts up. If I re-launch, it just hangs again. It's dead. I logged out before viewing my notes folder and back logging in. Still hangs. I have rebooted my laptop. No joy.

So I opted to use the we interface. OK, I can now look at my notes. I use the free version so I had to switch from the Windows desktop app as my 2nd device to the browser on my PC being my second device.

Next I open a note in which I have encrypted text. The note spacing/formatting is all off with all kinds of extra line feeds before every encrypted text field. Every note with encrypted text is completely "jumbled". If I "view" some encrypted text field in one of these notes, I can't edit away the formatting issue. So I permanently decrypt one of these encrypted fields. Sure enough, I can get rid of the extra line feed. So, now I try to encrypt that text again. I find out that encrypting text is a no go on the web version. And then I come to find that you can't encrypt "yet" with the new Windows app either! Can't yet? Why is encryption a feature that didn't make it into the first release? You can view encrypted text, but you can't encrypt text? So, when will it be added back? I'm not confident of a timely timeline... if ever.

What's annoying is that even through all the scaling back Evernote has done to device counts, etc. I decided to not migrate to something else specifically because of the inter-note encryption which seems to be an Evernote exclusive and one which I use a LOT. So, maybe after all of the effort Evernote says it's put into "improving" their product, it's finally driven me to revisit migrating to another note taking solution.