EvernoteMunkey

Meh. It's annoying sure but it's a small price to pay. I've used the service for free since when it was the only service back in 2010. So I have no complaints if Evernote needs to shut it down. OneNote was in its infancy back then and an extremely inferior product - compared to today when it's simply an inferior product. It's comparable for what I need though and 0365 is prevalent in my industry anyway. I've been only a basic user: 13.5 years of notes exports to mb not gb. To OP's point I'd be willing to pay $30-40/yr for the basic service that I use but that's likely not cost effective for Evernote. Fair enough. Sure I could repurpose old notes and I have enough notebooks. That's not really in the spirit of things with a company that's been a good vendor for all of these years. It's been kind of a nostalgic trip, cleaning out the old notes. Some good: notes on kids sports, colleges, and bygone Christmas present ideas. Some not such as the notes on trying to find help for my heroin addict son; I can practically hear the desperation in my writing, or maybe that's just bad memories that are best deleted.

Thanks for the explanation PE!

I just got 10.56.8 installed on my Win10 machine. What is the difference between signing out of Evernote and quitting? Does one have an impact on whether a device is considered in use by Evernote? Do I need to both sign out and quit? I use the web interface almost exclusively, and only log in from the desktop to create what I assumed was effectively a copy of my notes on the local machine. Occasionally I may log in from the Android app but that is rare, and I always log out of the Android app rather than just closing it. I've also noticed it appears to take around 10 seconds for a note to come up on the Windows app where it used to be relatively instantaneous. Does that have something to do with the new sync that I have seen comments about? I'm not a paying user so I don't have a complaint one way or the other. I'm just trying to understand what has changed.