@DTLow Your prefix suggestion is an unworkable hack, going against the ease-of-use of Evernote.
- Any content change in a note should trigger the update date to change
- Any metadata change should NOT trigger an update date refresh - categorisations , folders, labels, etc.
Looks like majority of people in this thread are of this advise.
Usability of Evernote has seriously dropped for me since this regression : any reorg of my notes breaks the history. Last update date is an important element of a note : "When was I working on that topic", or "when did I last speak with that person". But when I move older notes in a separate folder, all this info is lost, forcing me to explicitly write down dates in the note itself ... not a good workflow !