mz123

The reason this topic is here, is that a Windows-specific function stopped working: the ability to open standard Evernote links in EN for Windows Desktop, rather than in a browser. Others suggested workarounds: Disable the new Evernote for Web and return to the previous version, or Use classic note links instead I use the first workaround, which works for now. Of course, as the old version of the web interface likely won't be around forever, I hope Evernote fixes this shortcoming before removing the legacy web interface. Here, I was pointing out that the second workaround doesn't work for me. It works fine on Windows, but fails on mobile. One of the core benefits of links is to enable sharing across platforms. The core problem is that Evernote Windows doesn't open its own links.

Are you on Android?

I use Android. I don't know much about iOS. It doesn't work for me. So, I guess if Evernote classic goes away, I would be stuck with links that don't work on Android, at least if I want to link to Evernote notes from other apps.

That may be the case for me too, but only in the Evernote app. Other apps don't know how to deal with the links.

I disagree that this view. The problem with classic links, is that they only work in the desktop app. If I try to view them on my phone, for example, they fail. The previous behavior was best: open the link in the Desktop app if it's installed / available, and use the web otherwise. On mobile, use the mobile app if it's installed, and use the web otherwise. That makes complete sense, since presumably the reason I installed the desktop and mobile apps is that I want them to handle everything Evernote for me. Additionally, it's a standard behavior for apps in general, for links and files. "Hey, I'm an app that can handle this kind of file, or this kind of link, so I'll open it rather than send it to the browser". It's true of other mobile apps when viewing web links to services provided by that app (Google Maps, LinkedIn, Trello, etc.), and also for Windows with default files and protocols (tel: links, file: links, etc.) Evernote should be no different.

Thanks for the tip. While it may work in some apps, an evernote:/// link is an unusual beast and may not work elsewhere. For example, I use Remember the Milk with Evernote the most, and RTM doesn't even interpret evernote:/// as a valid link. There's another problem: I can't create evernote:/// style links from the Evernote app on Android. As a result, I can't do the process you describe in reverse. Using regular evernote.com/shard type links works well everywhere, from any app, created on any platform, and shared with any other app.... provided Evernote continues to support its own Windows app properly and opening Evernote links there! The fact that the new version of the web app breaks this functionality is unfortunate. I guess it's up to us power users, who really use the product, to point out when things like this get broken.

I found that logging out of EN web also reverted to the old link behavior. However, I think it had the side effect of also logging me out of the Web Clipper. Wouldn't deleting the cookie have the same undesirable side effect?

This was great advice. I don't want to use in-app note links, since they will not work on platforms without Evernote Windows (such as my Android app). The classic "Note Links", which also open in the WIndows app when it's installed, are more universal. Since I rarely use Evernote web, and I despise the long load times of the new version, your suggestion for a workaround was wonderful. Now, I hope Evernote doesn't mess this up by disabling the old version or altering the link behavior somehow. Links really ought to default to the best available option to open the link in, which is fantastic when it recognizes different apps installed on different platforms.

Why is Evernote (apparently) completely uninterested in fixing this? Screenshots with the Web Clipper look like they were taken on a monitor from 1985. It seems this issue has been present for years!

See the image below. I'd say no, still nice and fuzzy! I really don't understand why something like this doesn't get addressed for two years!

Me too. I've resorted to avoiding the web clipper screenshot feature entirely, because the desktop client's screenshot tool gets the full resolution. The Chrome Web Clipper ruins the quality. For the web, I'd prefer if the Web Clipper feature worked well, since it also captures the URL where the screenshot was made, whereas the desktop one does not. Is this something Evernote can fix?

I'm hoping to get Evernote to commit to something meaningful by posting some thoughts here. Evernote should recognize that their product is not equivalent to Google's, and they should not try to become Google. See here:

Hi. First step in any mobile device query is to sync the device so all your notes are on the server, then uninstall and reinstall the app. If you continue to have problems it's possible that the pages you're trying to clip are simply too big / too complicated to convert to notes, but we'd need you to give us some URL's of typical unclippable pages to take it any further... Thanks for the reply. I have installed from scratch. This has occurred now on 3 phones, each one with a fresh install of the Evernote app. The failures don't seem to be website-specific. They are instance-specific. It may fail or create a note containing "clipping...". Then I'll try again and it might work on the 2nd or 3rd attempt. I might try to clip a page and it will fail, sometimes without even creating a "clipping..." note. Sometimes it says "clip failed", and on other occasions nothing happens at all (elephant icon appears, completes, but there's no note). I'm convinced that Evernote could reproduce this without too much difficulty, if they just try clipping all sorts of web pages and then looking for failures or "clipping..." notes. They are probably under the false impression that complex pages cause failures, and are missing instances where the failures are not page-specific but rather instance-specific. Just yesterday my wife clipped about 6 websites to a shared notebook. On my phone, all I saw was "clipping..." notes, even 10 hours later. I opened each site and tried re-clipping from my phone. I had about a 50% success rate, but after many attempts I eventually had all notes successfully clipped. Sometimes I would have to try clipping a page 3 or 4 times before it worked. On each attempt I did nothing differently - just simply tried it again.

I have this problem regularly. Some notes clip, and at other times it just saves a note that says "clipping..." This bug has persisted with different phones and different Android OS versions (Kitkat and Lollipop). Can anyone help?