ttony, well said. I think you nailed why we're all so baffled this isn't important enough for them to fix.
Also, welcome to the thread. (Now it's customary to wait until PinkElephant and/or gazumped tells you why you're wrong/uninformed. It's fun!)
In most contexts, a moderator facilitates a conversation and, when necessary, de-escalates tense exchanges. No one in this thread appreciates this kind of (consistent) hostility, much less from a moderator.
I understand how the sausage is made. They're not technically unable to make this happen.
As paying customers, we're fully within our rights to make noise about a feature we want in the company-provided forum for just that purpose.
Well, I'm ready to jump ship.
It's worth it to me to manually migrate my thousands of notes to another app if it'll give me this one feature - or even just not implement it so horribly. I'm not aware of alternative apps out there with the same tagging/notebook/thumbnail view functionality.
Anyone know of an Evernote alternative? Happy to pay for it. I'd like to be done giving Evernote my money when they've spit in our faces like this - except that I'm trapped without an alternative.
Yikes, I used to be able to solve this by deleting all the irrelevant images in a note until I got one I liked - but now THAT doesn't even work anymore! Now this most recent "update" is apparently caching the original image it deemed thumbnail-worthy so I can't change it no matter what. After 8 years of struggling with thumbnail images I am at my wit's end!!!!