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Well, time will tell. As far as functionality is concerned Evernote is still sufficient for my needs although I had to change my workflow quite often when features were removed or changed. But I could cope with it and Evernote still is a very important tool for my professional as well as my private life. I just paid for another year of premium just before the new versions came out. Currently, I cannot use my iPad because the app is too slow and after reading the comments here I did not switch to the new Mac version. I hope Evernote will sort out the problems of performance and bugs quickly and then I might stay with Evernote. But if this will take a long time I might switch to a different solution. I own a Synology NAS, and I am thinking of giving Joplin a try. At least I will prepare for an exit strategy. You never know what will happen to Evernote in the future.

I could use Evernote on my iPad Air 2 without performance issues. But the new version 10 made Evernote almost unusable. Opening the app takes much longer than before. Every single step in using the app seems to take 5 to 10 times as much time as before. With newer versions there has been some miner improvements of the performance but it is still much much slower. I doubt that I will be able to use Evernote on my iPad and currently I am not willing to buy a new iPad just because of Evernote. Evernote was really my favorite app on the iPad but now the fun is gone. It just sucks. I think I might to look into alternatives.

Which client did you use? I could delete the notebook with the Web client.

I had the same problem today on my iPad after I shared a scan to Evernote via the HP scanner app. I got a "blank note" which I could not delete, move, edit etc. on any of the three clients I use (Web, iPad, Mac). My solution to get rid of the note was to: create a new notebook in the same stack, move all notes of the notebook containing the "blank note" to that notebook except the "blank note" which cannot be moved anyway, delete the notebook containing the "blank note", empty the trash, change the name of the new notebook to the old one.

I found a solution. I moved all notes to a temporary notebook. The "blank note" was then the only one in the notebook. I then deleted the complete notebook, emptied the trash, recreated the notebook and moved the notes back. At least I got rid of the strange note.

OK. Thank you. Until now I had no success, even with the old Mac version that I am still using. I might try to get some help from the support.

I have created a note by sharing a scan from the HP scanner app on my iPad. The first problem was that it didn't contain the scan as PDF. It just was an empty note without content. And now I cannot do anything with it. I tried to delete it, edit it or move it to a different notebook on all my platforms (iOS, Web-App and Mac). I guess this useless note will stay there forever.

Thank you very much for the information.

Exactly, on iOS it looks the same and if this is the case it is a bad implementation of the Web-interface because the Web-interface is quite fast. I am working daily with it under Linux in Firefox and it works quite well. The version numbers are also quite in sync. My Web-interface shows version 10.1.1. In general, if my guess is right it might not be a bad thing at all because new features then would be available on all platforms almost at the same time and that is what Evernote is claiming. I am just always pissed off (sorry) with the way Evernote releases new versions so immature. It happened so often since I use Evernote, and I am now waiting quite a long time and follow the forum carefully before I switch to a new version. Let's hope they fix the problems quickly. I have one last question: On my Mac I often use multi-selection either to set tags for many notes or for combining notes. This is not available in the Web-interface. What about the Mac version?

My guess is that this relates to the change of the infrastructure because I see this problem for some time in the Web-Version. I have the impression that the new Mac client is actually a web client and therefore, the same problems are found. I am still using the old Mac version and from what I see here I will stick to it for quite some time.

Unfortunately, as far as performance is concerned I don't see any improvement with version 10.0.1.

I cannot reproduce this particular problem. But the App is generally slower on my iPad Air 2 than the version before. Sometimes, it takes up to 10 seconds until the note content gets visible after note switching. And search also takes ages.

I like the UI very much but it is much slower than the previous version on my iPad Air 2. I hope this will improve. I don't want to buy a new iPad just because of Evernote.

Hi, First many thanks for your suggestions and trials to find the solution for the problem. I now looked more closely into the links that are created by pasting the links created by the Web client and the Mac client into a note. They are indeed both transferred to a link in the format evernote:///view/1005834/s9 where the first number is my user id and the second the shard number. However, there is a difference in the last part of the address. Here are the URLs of the links which I put in a test node "Test Note 1" both pointing to the note "Test Note 2": evernote:///view/1005834/s9/0041bee7-c015-47eb-94dc-c6fd75390dab/df9444e2-599a-48a2-8e71-4d59ec652b6b evernote:///view/1005834/s9/0041bee7-c015-47eb-94dc-c6fd75390dab/0041bee7-c015-47eb-94dc-c6fd75390dab And for me, the first one created in the Web client only works in the Web client whereas the second one created in the Mac client works on both. What I also noticed is that the green colors used by the links are slightly different. This is most obvious in dark mode. I attached a screenshot.

What I did, pasting into a text editor was to identify the reason for the behavior and the reason is the "1" instead of my user ID in the link. I of course normally directly paste the link into a note. But as I mentioned note links create by the Web-Client don't work in the Mac client. And this happens every time so it must be a "feature".

I now did the following on my Mac: 1. I created a new note 2. I opened the note in the web client in Firefox and in the desktop client 3. I now selected the menu entries in both to create a note link and pasted them into a text editor and two different links where created: Web-Client: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s9/nl/1/4bcd7f17-2457-4cc7-9ba6-50eddcaba8a6?title=Dieses%20ist%20ein%20Test Mac-Client: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s9/nl/1005834/4bcd7f17-2457-4cc7-9ba6-50eddcaba8a6/ When I now use these URLs as links in a note the first opens the note in Firefox even if I click on it in the Mac Client. Only the second one opens a note in the same client.

When I create a link to another note with the "Copy internal link" feature in the Web-Client this link only works in the Web-Client but not in the Mac Desktop Client. When I create the link to the same note in the Mac Client it works in both clients. Looking into the link addresses for the two links reveals that they are identical. What could be the reason?

Yes, that is definitely new behavior in Firefox since a few days and I hate it!

I once had a similar issue. I added a picture to a note on my Mac and did not see it some time later. Then I realized that I actually added a link to a picture and not a copy of it. Could this be somehow the reason for your problem?

I think that this is not exactly possible. However, the search syntax allows you to search for all notes containing one or more checkboxes: todo:* for all notes containing unchecked checkboxes: todo:false for all notes containing checked checkboxes: todo:true

Hi, Unfortunately, I am not allowed to install the newest Chrome version on my computer at work. I tried the new interface on the installed Firefox (Version 61) and experienced the same problem. However, I could install the newest Firefox on my computer without root privileges and in version 71.0.1 tags with a special character as first character work! That means it is somehow related to previous browser versions. I am now happy again and can continue using my work flow. Thanks for the latest hint! Regards from Bremen in Germany Bernd

OK, I‘ll try this on Monday but I am not sure whether I have the authority to change my system at work. I shall report back on Monday. Thank you and have a good weekend.

Thanks for trying to find the reason for my problem! It is related to my environment at work. I now tested it on Safari, Chrome, and Firefox on my Mac (actually I was surprised that Firefox now works with the new Web interface). In all three browsers it works but not in Chrome under Redhat Enterprise 7.5 at work as mentioned earlier. Unfortunately, at work I am relying on the Web interface due to the lack of a client for Linux. The problem is not really related to search. The upgrade to the new search feature (which is awesome by the way) was just a coincidence. Something else must have been changed. When I use the new search e.g. using 'tag:.caas' which searches for all notes of a certain project I see the correct tag appearing in the search box. But when I press enter or click on the found tag I get the error message I described. The same happens when I click on such a tag in the tags window. My workflow is really simple. I work for a number of different projects and I keep track of my work on these projects with Evernote. All notes for a project carry a special tag starting with a '.<project>'. Notes for issues which need to be worked on additionally carry the tag '.<project>-open'. This easily allows me to show all notes belonging to a project or all notes which need work. When I finish the work on a note/issue I just remove the tag '.<project>-open' and keep the tag '.<project>'. But for the problem this is irrelevant. All tags starting with a special character result in the described problem. It would be a lot of work to change all the tag names to ones without special characters, and I am also reluctant to change it because I like this way organizing my notes. I also tried switching languages used by my browser and by Evernote without success. Can I provide additional information e.g. using Web developer tools of browsers etc.?

Hi, Thank you for the quick answer. The new search was just activated for me yesterday and the described problem just appeared with this update. And I now think it is not the search but the problem is related to the tags with special characters. I use a dot for project-related, '@' for location-related and '#' for people-related tags. When I now search for such a tag or select such a tag in the tags window I get an error message. I took three screen shots. The first shows that I am actually in the classic editor version so this doesn't help. The next shows some of my tags starting with a dot. I tested all tags I use with three different special characters which are as mentioned above '.', '@', and '#'. When I now click on such a tag I get the following error message: When I then click on 'Reload Page' I see all notes and not only the ones carrying the selected tag. My system is Redhat Enterprise 7.5 and Google Chrome 54.0.2840 (64-bit). My locale is en_US.UTF-8.

Searching for notes with tags starting with special characters like #,@,. is completely broken. It is also not possible to go back to the non-beta version of the Web-Interface beause the new search is active for this version as well. The Web-Interface is now almost useless for me because it totally breaks my workflow.