NJH-2000

I previously posted on this topic just over a year ago after a disastrous initial experience with V10 (Link Below). Since then I have been continuing to use the Legacy version and occasionally dip into the new V10 App to see if its becoming more workable for me. Up to now, unfortunately not.

I use Evernote for my work. Most notes are pdf documents or other large files and I find the ability to easily drag an drop, tag sort and filter my files invaluable. I still have many issues with V10+ but by far the biggest gripe is that its very slow. Legacy is instantaneous and for mainly this reason I am continuing with it for now.

I appreciate there are many use cases for Evernote and I'm sure there are many happy users of V10 . I don't use it for task management and I don't need calendar integration. I mostly  use it in a desktop environment. (I use it even less now on my mobile devices than before.)

I'm no expert but it seems that due to the way the New Evernote has been built it may never be as fast and slick as the old desktop legacy version.

I am concerned that I am using unsupported software for my professional work . Ive been looking for alternatives and am considering Nimbus. So far Evernote legacy is still preferential to Nimbus in terms of design and features

My greatest wish would be for Evernote to continue to develop the old version.

Assuming this scenario does not arise I guess I will continue to look for alternatives to Evernote legacy....

59 minutes ago, sgarcata said:

How do you reinstall legacy. I cannot use the newest version. It is really horrible... modern design? give me a break. I don't use Evernote to win beauty contests. I used it to get stuff done.

https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/360052560314

14 hours ago, HeBoIz said:

May depend on the device we /you use. For me it looks like v10 works better the more the used device is near to the top of high tech and state of the art.

Fast processor, big Ram, highspeed internet - if all this is given, then there may be no big difference between legacy and v10.

But what if one of these conditions is missing, which probably will be the case with most of us...

I'm not sure how this can relate to the Processor, RAM or internet speed. I'm using the same machine and same internet to compare V10 and legacy. (Ive got a good machine. Internet is average at best)

Ive been working with V10 some more this morning and its only confirming my initial reactions. Slow, clunky and missing a lot of features that I have previously relied on.

To be fair the actual note taking function seems much improved and the rendering of web page notes and pdfs seems better. Overall its not an improvement for me though.

I'm sure different users will be impacted differently as there are so many use case scenarios for Evernote.

For now I have reinstalled the legacy app and am running it alongside V10. I'm remaining hopeful that Evernote will improve with coming updates  (I really don't want to change app) but I'm also now keeping my eye open for alternatives.

Found this earlier.

4 hours ago, WilliamL said:

Completely agree and I would say Evernote is working to go from the not so good to the good. My issue is with folks who write off them possibility of good because they intrinsically don’t like Electron. Worse, when this is expressed as facts and doom to people who post here looking for advice and help and are hit with info which would have anyone heading to the door - info which is ultimately a view and not fact.
 

Personally I think the moderators need to act on that because it is going to scare users away - it would me if I had not done some reading around and looked into Electron a bit. It is by no means a super program and does have its issues, but it isn’t the doom and end of the product some proclaiming it as. 

I have to say that I was expressing facts relating to clear and measurable differences in the speed and ease of use of Evernote comparing before and after the update to V10. It is a concern as Evernote has been a core productivity tool for me for the last 5 or so years. It would be a big step to move away from it a find another solution. For now I'm happy to be patient and hope that future updates address the issues I'm experiencing.

I have put this out to the forum in case there is any helpful or informative feedback (thanks to all so far). I originally was planning to contact support but it seems that there are currently delays in receiving a response.

I guess the thing is I have always mostly used Evernote for filing documents and webclips. With good tagging its been a very efficient tool for information storage and retrieval. Now it seems hopeless. For example I just dragged a PDF into a filtered selection of files (filtered on a tag). It took at least 20 seconds to load up and it was not even apparent when it was done as the new file did not inherit the tag as it was copied over. Previously this would have been done in less than a second.

Also this morning I have been searching for invoices and payments listed under the same tag. Firstly there was a delay to view the filtered selection, then it was taking up to 30 seconds to open each file. With the previous version  this would have been a process that would have taken seconds not minutes.

I'm sure if I mainly used evernote for just note taking then I would be super happy, but  this update seems to have killed the value of Evernote for me.

I hope these are issues that are already on the developers radar and that they are addressable?

Thanks for this.

I will have a closer look in the forum to learn more. However, My first impressions of this new version of Evernote  are that it is not an upgrade at all, at least for the way I use it. I guess I need to be patient for a bit but for sure I'm now looking out for an alternative platform