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EdH

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  1. Thanks. That is not at all discoverable. I have a Surface Pro 4 with a high DPI screen, and I cannot explain how tiny that tooltip is. I never even saw it. Shrink this image attached to the size of your screen and you'll see what I mean. (took with OneNote, which is still, IMHO, faster as it uses a keyboard shortcut to execute and copies to the clipboard by default)
  2. There are two basic ways to get a copy of a screenshot into Evernote. I do this all the time when documenting stuff and I NEVER want it in a new note, but always inline where I am typing. Here is how I can do it: Get what I want on the screen Right-click the EN icon on the task bar, select Clip Screenshot Drag to get what I want Go to my @Inbox notebook and get the note Cut the image out of the new note Delete the new note Find my note I was in Find my place in the note CTRL-V Or, I just discovered this today: Get what I want on the screen Press the Win-Shift-S key (Win10) or Win-S (Win7) if OneNote is installed, and it is. Drag to get what I want Click back to my note on Evernote CTRL-V Delete all of the notes OneNote has created this way at the end of the day. The beauty of this is, in step 3 for OneNote, it creates a note and puts the image on the clipboard. If Evernote did the same, I'd be golden. I'd actually prefer a setting where Evernote would just clip to the clipboard and not bother with a new note.
  3. Close outlook and reinstall Evernote. That will force EN to reinstall the Outlook clipper and fix the settings. I use the EN clipper in Outlook 2016 on Windows 10 all of the time, so I know it works.
  4. Thanks for the confirm. Hoping to get EN to recognize that the Windows client locks up way too frequently to be useful day to day usage because of the local database being overly aggressive in maintenance or just ill equipped to handle the job.
  5. reliably in the sense that, there are dozens of other ways to do that that aren't as consistent. Start Evernote on Windows and make sure to leave it alone. Let it sync, etc. Make sure it has nothing queued up to do. Right-click on the Evernote icon in the task bar and select "Clip screenshot" Clip anything with the crosshairs. Go to Evernote select that note right-click on the image and select "cut" Doesn't matter what step 7 is because evernote is now frozen. This is on a Surface Pro with an i5 processor, 16GB of RAM, 512GB SSD, Windows 10. the workflow is creating a note for documentation, and using Evernote to get some screengrabs that you want in one note, so you clip, cut, paste, document, rinse, repeat. Merging notes is not an option as that: destroys any links to the original note. creates thick gray bars between notes where I really want these images more or less inline, and even in bullet lists
  6. still absurd you cannot do this in the search query.
  7. Technically, there is no such thing as "a stack." It is just a visual representation for you of how you want to view notebooks. It is not like a folder, then sub folders on your PC/Mac, which are all real folders. I suppose they could do this by looping through each notebook in the stack and sharing them one at a time, but then it becomes difficult to unshare a stack if you've tweaked individual notebooks in the stack with other permissions. Not impossible, but that is why you cannot share a stack today - there is really no such thing.
  8. FWIW, the Windows client has Find & Replace, and it is hilarious to watch. Most apps I've seen just do it. Evernote moved to every "find" and you can watch it quickly do the "replace" so it is very slow. I had a checklist for a reading plan with 365 entries, and I did a find/replace for each one. It took about 15 seconds to do it. I think it was just tossed in there years ago and never really looked at. I know everyone thinks Evernote was created in 2008 or something, but the Windows client was created in 2003 and it was very much a Windows program back then with no cross-platform thinking in it, and the current version still has stuff from way back then. F&R may be one of those features.
  9. Yup. I found this out over the weekend. I had to wait until I fired up my Windows PC to do this as the Windows client has it. Unfortunately, unless you have a Windows version of Evernote, I don't think you can. iOS and the web version of EN cannot do it either. I am not sure about Android, but doubt it.
  10. See this thread. But first I recommend you figure out your user ID because you keep posting stuff under the @lborcoll and @nontury IDs, and that means you have multiple Evernote accounts, and that is possibly where some of your confusion is. Just pick one account and stick with that.
  11. Are you using a recent version? EN 6.x supports HDPI monitors and I cannot tell the difference in how Evernote looks on my HDPI Surface Pro 4 screen vs an older 21" "low res" monitor that it is attached to. By default, my SP4 is set to 150% DPI in the settings for the built in screen. But EN scales well and looks comparable to Outlook, Excel, Chrome, and other apps. Not smaller or larger.
  12. But this is a pain. But yeah, you can effectively "undo" the mess. I am fortunate I also use the Windows client and I save all my merges for that platform. It is unbelievable that macOS still cannot do this.
  13. The -tag:archive in the search will do this easily. What you propose will make it more cumbersome to do a full search of notes and probably increase the support calls to Evernote for people that would archive stuff then wonder why it didn't show up in search results. Moving everything to an archive notebook or stack of archived notebooks and adding the "archive" tag to all of them solves this. Just include -tag:archive in your searches.
  14. You could export it then delete it. The export file is XML, so in a pinch, you could open in a text editor to scan for info, or if you really needed something from it, just import it back into Evernote.
  15. Yes, a "Paste Format" option would be nice. I use EN and ON daily and much prefer Evernote, but OneNote definitely has the upper hand in rich formatting.
  16. Thanks. I am sure there are many more I've missed too. Keep the list going...
  17. what feedback forum? The Windows feedback, or mac feedback?
  18. I personally would love it if the next round of upgrades was to get feature parity among the desktop platforms. For example: Things Windows has but macOS doesn't Indent/Outdent icons on the toolbar (even this web forum has those!) Import folders Ability to merge notes in the order selected instead of the order last modified. 3 Reminder fields to add in List View Ability to put shortcuts across the top where they are always visible instead of the left pane where they can vanish off screen Things macOS has but Windows doesn't easy access to saved searches in the search bar Easily create saved search from the search bar after executing a search Ability to show hits in PDF files (I know the reason for this, but I am say'n it anyway! :-) ) Ability to copy files from Windows Explorer and Paste with a shortcut key Ability to remove tags with the cursor key when in the tag area of a note without having to grab the mouse and hit that teeny tiny x next to the tag. A rock'n database that never forces the UI to stop responding Ability to see reminder notes in List view I am sure there are others, but the key is, these are two insanely powerful platforms and there is no reason (other than the PDF thing above) both cannot both do everything the other can, even if the UI might be a bit different in how it is executed. Not asking for any of this on iOS or Android - I fully get those platforms are different - though they should be roughly equivalent to each other) I don't know about anyone else, but I'd prefer these be addressed before one. single. new. feature. is released.
  19. There is no reason to go to 64 bit unless memory is an issue. Microsoft, for example, will tell you up front don't bother with Office 64 bit unless you specifically need a ton of RAM for really large Excel spreadsheets. It does nothing for the other apps and can introduce issues with plugins which may not work right or at all with the 64bit version. I don't think Evernote's freezing problem has anything to do with 32bit vs 64bit. It has to do with it shoving everything in that one database file. The Mac client is much faster and I think that is because every note is multiple files in a massive folder structure - one file for the text, one for images, attachments, etc. Then the EN client puts them together on the fly. In Windows everything is in a single database and it requires maintenance and updates, so editing and saving a 100KB note can cause your machine to freeze while 50MB or more of disk activity happens. I have a screaming fast Surface Pro 4 with a 512GB SSD and 16GB of RAm and EN still routinely freezes. I have an anemic Macbook at home (1.2GHz Core M processor) and 8GB of RAM and it never freezes. Same data. Over 16,000 notes and 8GB of data.
  20. This has been brought up numerous times, and honestly, that still isn't enough. I recently messed up a merging on the Mac and got tired of fooling with it, restored my notes from teh trash and merged them on Windows because that merges in the order selected. Evernote, please show us Mac users some love here!
  21. No, but it isn't as big of a deal. Few people delete text with the delete key on Windows. We use backspace when typing. Using the delete key is a very deliberate keystroke in edit mode. On the Mac, the delete key is used for backspace and is very commonly used, and way to easy to delete an entire note. It would be like deleting notes in the Windows version with the Backspace key. That would be bad. And, [DELETE] alone is how you delete files in Windows, so it is consistent.
  22. Yes. That was a deliberate change in the latest build to mimic how you delete files on the Mac - CTRL-Delete. EN was apparently getting a LOT of support issues with people thinking they were deleting characters and if the focus was wrong, notes started vanishing.
  23. I understand what you are saying @JMichaelTX, but I've done this at least 3 times where teh support thread/adventure lasted 3-5 weeks, and ended with a "yup. thanks for the input, we'll keep working on it." and nothing. It is exhausting and I don't have the time to waste on it anymore. I will happily devote HOURS to it every week if I have a direct line past the front line support, because that is useless for this. But I am not jumping on that treadmill again. It isn't productive. I know this from experience.
  24. You are 100% right - this is a pure I/O issue with the disk. CPU usage is non-existent during this process, and RAM usage is unaffected.
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