SuperTRev

4 minutes ago, PinkElephant said:

If startup is slow, there is often a data corruption hidden in the local database. You can try this to fix it. It will delete the local database and reload it fresh from the EN cloud server:

1. Go to File > Sign Out [name] from the menu bar.
2. Select the "Remove my Evernote data from this device" option, then click Sign out.
3. Restart your computer.
4. Sign back in to Evernote

You told me to sign out, then sign out.

After signing out, I looked for the 'remove data' options, but there was none.  Only the login screen, with limited options.

And by 'device' it means just the app, right?  I'm not going to lose my work?

So I have a $4k PC.  I can literally boot up Windows 10 faster than the desktop Evernote app boots up.  I don't mean the app, I mean just the login screen.  Then after login, it's like another half hour before the app appears on screen.  Yikes!  You got to be kidding me with that.  I bet if I pulled out the stop watch, I would find that any other program I have would boot up faster, including fully featured programs like FL Studio or Starcraft II.  The slowest program I currently have is a note taking app?  ... Really?

In contrast, I merely click on the Google Chrome icon in my windows taskbar, and I have Google Calendar, Gmail, YouTube and Google Tasks ready to roll, faster than I can snap my fingers.  I remind you the $4k PC, that has 64GB of the fastest RAM, a $1k GPU and runs off an SSD drive.  So how does a potato PC fare trying to boot up Evernote I wonder?  What is this app trying to do when it's loading the login screen?  Mine for bitcoin?  

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I can login with my credentials, or login with Google.  ... But Google won't manage the password because it's not in Chrome.  But I can login with Google... what?  What if I don't want to login with Google?  Then it's back to the year of our Lord 1545, where I produce the scroll and the ink quill to manually type out a ten character password so I can use... a note taking app.  What, is someone going to see my fried egg recipe and a reminder to exercise?  God forbid!  Why do I have to manually enter a password on my own computer?  What am I storing missile codes?

So I just had to reset the password because of my chicken scratch on my paper didn't make sense.  Accuracy is another issue with manual passwords.  The login screen said something about deencryption failed or something.  No idea.  So I'm a half hour of my life spent logging in to take a ten second note, and another half hour to have to stop what I'm doing to rant about it.

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The taskbar widget lets you quickly jot down a note.  Ok.  ... does it have a hotkey?  What if I'm in a fullscreen program?  I have to suspend that app and spend several clicks getting to the fresh note before I can jot it down?  Or I could just pick up my smart phone, tap once, then tap again and have talk to text fire a note right into Google Tasks.  Done.

What happens after I'm done typing out this new note?  I have a 'convert to note' button.  Ok, but I can't find it in Evernote, after it was written.  Where did it go?  Shouldn't a quick sticky note style of box be a task instead of a note?  Shouldn't it be auto-added to a dedicated quick-note notebook, so it can be easily retrieved in the future?  I'm not sure why I'm using this feature when it's slower and more awkward than (the free) Google Tasks.  It's actually about the same amount of work using pen and paper at this point, when you consider having to hunt it down.  And it's running in the background the whole time using PC resources.

Could these new tasks list buttons *not be purple?  (I didn't want to start a thread just to ask that.)  I mean, you have that nice green colour for things, then you go and make the tasks purple.  Why?  I can see it's a task because it's an empty circle.  I don't need it colour coded if I don't want it to be.  But you can't change it to the nice green?  Or that blue 'Edit' button?  The green, black and white colour scheme is nice, but these other colours are loud and confusing.

On Android, Google Pixel 5, I have it on sideways orientation, having it sit there to reference some notes periodically.  There is this godawful ugly 'Edit' button that takes up half the screen, RIGHT in the middle, that sits there in the way, the whole time (It literally covers up some of the text).  The background is dark, the text is a soft off-white and there is this obnoxious ridiculous big bright blue edit button, completely destroying the overall appearance of the app when I look over to read.

How come reading mode isn't a reading mode?   You see other types of software that have reading modes, and they simply remove all on screen buttons and the only functions are scrolling and page turning.  There's an unassuming exit button in the corner when you tap instead of swipe.  This is how it's done properly.  Having a big blue swimming pool button in your face without being able to hide it is pretty bad.  I wonder if this button could double as a smart phone flashlight in low level situations.

I can't get rid of it.  So I push the button to go to edit mode just to get rid of it (An extra step that makes life an extra step harder).  Right now it's actually refusing to edit.  It opens the phone's keyboard, then reverses, closing the keyboard and just plops the view back to where it was before.  Edit mode is currently broken in this scenario.  Brutal.  If I want to edit something, I'm sure that I could tap the hamburger settings icon first, then find an available 'Edit' entry.  Think I will live by having to tap twice instead of once.

A couple quick zooms would be nice here too.  Especially for sideways orientation.  Zoom in would increase the font size and just wrap sentences further down.  Right now the double finger pinch zoom acts like a magnifying glass.  As in, it creates horizontal scroll bars instead of wrapping the text down range, so it remains a manageable vertical scroll.  And shortcut zooms are a lot faster than manually setting it each time.

Wait.. there is a way to disable the shortcuts right?

I didn't just install an update that is going to force me to delete this app, right after creating a library worth of notes in it, am I?

How can you get rid of just the red line?  It's helpful to have a spell check running, but not eternally.  With any of the Google apps, you can right click a word and choose the proper spelling, or 'add to dictionary', so it's not flagged as misspelled anymore.  Which removes the red line. 

Evernote has the suggestions in the right click menu.  But no add-to-dictionary.  No buttons to toggle it on/off.  Even Windows 95 office had a 'check spelling' tool that once it was done, removed all the underlines, so you don't have to friggin LOOK AT THEM ANYMORE!  Twenty five years ago!  These Evernote guys have one job to do.  It can't be that hard.  😣

I just added 'friggin' to the Google dictionary.  No red line under it.  Ever again.  Magic!

Interesting that you have to be 'signed in' to the PC app for it to work, but when you are signed in you still have to manually sign into the forum.  Genius.  +1.

Also, while I'm here, how do you remove it from running in the background on exit?  Does it run on startup?  Who gave it these permissions?

Hi, I modified an existing template so that it can be a template for writing music lyrics.  I want to use it fresh every time I want to write a new song.

Problem is, the 'save as template' in the menu is greyed out, on the PC app version.  On the website version, there is no template options at all.

 I don't see any other way of making the note a template, or duplicating the note so I can use it blank every time.  ?