BLK Dragon

What do you mean by 'local' note? I don't have any local notebooks (all notebooks ae synced across all devices). Looks like exporting notebook several times forces EN to cache all notes from notebook locally - first export fails at 13%, second export fails at 20% and so on until whole notebook successfully exported. After that BTW all notes (from successfully exported notebook) are available offline. So, in theory, if I can force export ALL notes (which can't be done in v10, not via UI at least) - this will force to cache everything locally, IF cached notes are never deleted (which I can't really check). Also, I've tried to backup whole database with evernote-backup tool (on Classic Evernote installation). It worked much more reliably - failed couple of times during 'sync' phase, but all notebooks were successfully exported in one go. Will try to do it with v10 at my work desktop PC today.

Latest version, tried on Windows and Mac.

I guess it 'just works' - until you suddenly need a 5-year old note from 60Gb database. And you always need it exactly that very hour when there's no internet connection Strangely enough, mobile version still has 'all notebooks available offline' option.

So, Classic Evernote (I refuse to call it 'legacy', it's an insult to a good software) will stop working in several weeks, and I'm trying to determine if this new Evernote is actually usable (because first releases of v10 felt like something hastily hacked together by some inexperienced hipsters). Experiment 1 - offline access to notes. I've waited several days for EN to download all the data, its 'cache' folder is approximately the same size as data-folder of Classic Evernote. So, all the notes should be available without internet connection, right? Wrong! And it's not just oldest notes not available offline, it's kinda random. Experiment 2 - exporting to ENEX. It works, kinda. It took 9 attempts and 2+ hours to export first notebook. The same notebook exported from Classic Evernote in 10 minutes, on first attempt. Exporting failes often if notebook has at least 200 notes and/or more than 1Gb of data. It seems that EN has troubles with very old notes (5+ year old). Bottom line : v10 is still unreliable. Maybe it'll change to better in near future (I still have several months of Premium subscription left), but I don't hold my breath. New dev team seems to be more interested in fancy bells-and-whistles stuff than in making basic funtionality robust (or implementing missing features / fixing old bugs).

Who would think that adding some buttons would be so hard... (sorry, I just can't talk about this without irony, being developer myself). I mean it was obviously good UI/UX solution that worked really well.

You can't reach "shortcut" with a single click when it's buried in the tree of notebooks. I've attached picture how it looks -- in the horizontal toolbar just below app-menu; that way you can acces 'pinned' note/notebook with single click, without scrolling and searching.

It looks like this : (basically a 'cache' of most used notebooks, 'quick access' or smth like that)

I'm talking about note/notebook shortcut - it's when you 'pin' some note or notebook to toolbar panel and can access it with single click.

I can one thing to the list (since I'm forced to use v10 soon and old problems are still there) : shortcuts. Shortcuts are not really shortcuts in v10. 'Shortcut' is when you do single click and go to the note or notebook. Not scrolling large list and picking smth buried in list of notebook, not going to home-screen and picking from tiny scrollable window (on a large 4K display, yeah), but doing single click. There was an option once to show shortcuts on the toolbar under menu (on a macbook at least) - so it can be optional, because I can already hear "oh but only 1% of users want this"

That note contained only one PDF - that was sole purpose of that note There is a number of such notes with large PDFs attached and I can't remember any problems with opening them from EN, I do that every day (with a smaller PDFs typically). BTW v10 is still doesn't open attached file with double-click or right-click menu - you have to open it in internal viewer and from there you can click-click-click open file (image for example) with app you need. Usability my a$$. Yes I could store PDFs elsewhere. But that's the point of using EN - to have many notes/PDFs in one place, tagged and searchable. Also I know about 'hidden' refresh/reload commands in v10 - tried to used them on macbook at work - and they seemed to do nothing. So I prefer to have 'sync' button and sync (or NOT sync) when needed.

I'm on premium, for quite some time. Tried v10 several times, once a year or so and gave up on it. Maybe this last attempt will be successful. If no, well, it's time to move on then. ENEX-export and import worked OK last time I tried.

When someone tell me 'it's is simply happening' - it horrifies me, because that means something will suddenly break behind your back (without you noticing it). And 'sync is simply happening' just deleted an 100Mb PDF from the existing note because 'upload limit is exceeded'. I didn't upload anything, just tried to open PDF from existing note (on a freshly installed v10, on separate laptop) - EN tried to open PDF several times, showed that 'upload limit is exceeded' warning and removed PDF from the note (saving bunch of partially downloaded PDF to local folder) -- this is the prime example of 'new improved Evernote' and that's why I postponed that upgrade for years. I don't need automagical sync, I need something I can actually control (and I definitely don't need my data deleted behind my back). But it looks like v10 is gradually downloading whole database, so maybe it's usable. I give v10 this one last chance.

I believe that after v10 release everyone concerned with 'new' EN had saved 'Legacy' installer, just in case

Backup is different question -- I just 7Zip whole Evernote data-folder to NAS once a week; it takes somewhat tolerable 30-40 minutes for my 60Gb database. I'm concerned with 'regular' usage -- I'd like to have EN downloaded everything to be sure any note is accessible without internet-connection. 'Legacy' EN has that 'sync' button - you press it, wait some (maybe long) time and after that all notes are available offline. Mobile versions had 'offline' options per notebook - you tick that option, wait some time and all notebook's notes are available offline. 'New' EN doesn't have any of that. It SEEMS that new v10 installation is downloading all notes in background, but I'm still pretty skeptical about that (after dealing with first versions of v10 - it looked like something hacked together by bunch of inexperienced students).

And next (predictable) question -- is there a way do "download EVERYTHING" ? I mean to get all data offline (without clicking every single notebook and scrolling down to force download its notes)

Local notebooks are disappeared looong time ago, AFAIK. First versions of 'new' Evernote seemed to store everything in 'cloud' and cached (very) small amount of notes locally, which was very slow and clunky and basically unusable. If v10 stopped doing that <censored>, I probably continue using EN.

Since 'Legacy' version is going to stop working next month, I have only one question about v10 : can it store ALL data locally (so I can access ANY note offline) ?