JLLC

When I tried to open a bug on this, it was closed as a duplicate of an existing bug. @galaktor I'm guessing that you opened the original. Can you please update this thread when it's fixed. I will say that I'm pleased that it's classified as "new unknown error," which suggests the developers believe it's a problem. @skirsch: you ask: "JLLC: have you found a better alternative that we can switch to ..." I put a lot of effort into moving my existing notebooks from OneNote to Evernote because of the support across additional platforms, such as my Android phone. I'm reluctant to do that again unless absolutely necessary. The next logical choices would be Google Keep or Obsidian. I've dabbled with Obsidian, but it's a more all-encompassing solution than I want. I have not tried Keep. There's a nice, current review article at https://zapier.com/blog/best-note-taking-apps/ (As tempting as building my own solution would be, I am not good enough at developing Android or iPad apps to get the platform breadth I want. And as long as I'm using a web client, Evernote will suffice.) And @Dave-in-DecaturThanks for the tip about settings on the web client.

I want to complement PinkElephant on their continuing willingness to understand the different requirements of different users and his supportive comments. (There's no sarcasm key, so you'll have to take the sarcasm in that sentence as read. The volume of insult in their comments makes me hope that they are not representing the official position of Evernote and they are being a butthead on their own authority.) It is simply ridiculous for a simple note-taking application to demand full use of my computer. The goal of any piece of software should be to be use as few resources as necessary. Evernote has no need that I can understand -- or anyone has even attempted to explain -- to continually access my disk writing and rewriting to the same file, which it is demonstrably doing. I do not understand why this is "just normal execution of the software." To make matters worse, in the last week the web interface has changed, which makes that workaround less attractive. The web view now includes an amazing amount of extra ***** that reduces the amount of data that can be seen at a glance -- I don't need to have the count of notes in each notebook, for example. I now have to scroll significantly to see the full list of my notebooks, a view which was previously nicely compact.

@PinkElephant Please stop assuming that your experience and equipment are the same as everyone elses. I hope you are speaking for yourself and not the Evernote developers. In the real world, people use a variety of different computers with a variety of different configurations for a variety of reasons. Telling someone their computer is inadequate is not helpful. While the Dilbert comic strip at https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-06-24 is funny, it's not a helpful approach.

Thanks Pink Elephant. Does anyone have the ticket number for this incident?

I asked earlier and didn't get an answer: Where can we track the incident ticket? Where could we file one directly, rather than launching a thread here and hoping that it gets adopted into an actual bug report?

@galaktor, thanks for updating the incident ticket. Where are those stored, please? Either they're well hidden, or I'm being clumsy in looking them up.

> Counting the number of forum users posting here, I doubt it is a general problem with the windows app. You shouldn't draw that conclusion at all. This is the kind of bug that not everyone will notice, and, of those, a smaller number will be able to diagnose the cause. Even then, some number of those are going to say "oh, that's just software" or "I don't care." If you've got some evidence that it's interaction, rather than speculation, please share. Never discount a bug report. More than four decades as a software professional have taught me that bug reports are assets, not liabilities, and companies discount them at their own risk.

This has now being going on for more than 3 hours, which seems a little excessive. I'll try PinkElephant's suggestion of uninstall/reinstall, but I'm not particularly hopeful. (It's the old joke: "What do you want to do tonight Brain?" "What we do every night, Pinky: reinstall Windows 95!")

After the update to 10.22.3-win-dll-public (2958), Evernote is thrashing my disk. It's writing 125k per second to my NTFS volume log, and 90k per second to a file in AppData under Evernote\conduit-storage with a name ending in ...LocalStorage.sql and then another 12k-36k per second in each of multiple threads to a similar file ending in LocalStorage.sql-journal. Is the log process out of control, or is this intended? I hope it's not the latter.

The solution from support for the start page issue is to quit and restart. That works a treat. For the "Set as default page" problem, that was self-inflicted: I was looking at the context menu for a notebook stack, not an individual notebook.

After the update to 10.14.7-win-ddl-public (2661), EN always opens to the "Shared with Me" page. How do I make it open to the Home page or -- better yet -- the last note I was editing. All of the documentation about selecting a default notebook is now out of date. For example, the three dots selector in the "Notebooks" page no longer includes "Set as default notebook" as described on https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/208314728-Change-your-default-notebook#:~:text=Select Evernote > Preferences...,to set as your default.