dmcritchie

Problem solved but would suggest anyone with problem read all answers and comments because even with the right answers you get logged out which is not normal so throwing in a surprise with wrong userid or password makes problem worse and this is because you got a surprise login and mess that up on top of actual problem.  Actually the actual problem was caused by a new button.

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KAPUT: Printed from page on Windows, new month started stopped working on Windows and Android had one device which I had to cancel to get in and can't get logged in on Android or Windows and I get original message to start working with Evernote, with no data. Now I'm really screwed. Update a month or so ago has two Evernote symbols on Windows logo page never know which one works and which doesn't. The one on Windows home page no longer worked for some time. Can't get in on either system.

Know data is still actually around because I looked at one of the public notebooks in a browser but can't access via Evernote App. Of course to really to really see all of the data I know I must use Firefox when viewing public notebooks (minor inconvenience, compared to Evernote not working).

YES, the month changed, but I used the WRONG email address and misspelled, so it was truly recognized as a new user, and that makes it look like all my data was gone.

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So I did get it working, but had to do the steps many times.  Everytime I revoked device (Web client). on Android I cleared cache and storage in Android settings.  Stay logged out go to other machine (Windows machine) click on my profile letter after logging in then revoked web client, revoked in browser as account stuff is done there, but if you see "client" in the web address you have to start all over again because you need to use the start button with square background for the app.  Each time you go in you immediately go for the  profile letter > info > devices > check the one (for me always web) you want to drop, then click on revoke and sign out.  Keep doing and signing in until both systems/devices only show the two devices you want.  (Not a nice way to spend 6 or more hours)

Problem started and reappears because the Evernote update/installation has two buttons the one on the disc is the client, the nice one is the app and has a square background.  Make sure you don't have the one with the disk pinned to Windows start menu start (assuming you don't want the browser client) or on your Windows desktop and the buttons are not labeled, so surprised there aren't a heck of a lot of people with this problem.   So even though it told me I had exceeded devices I did manage to hack through until it worked, of course the month had aso changed so this might not have worked originally, but I was always deleting the same device and immediately examining the devices list.

I have two devices connected and Evernote added web access, since web access now counts as a device I no longer use it for years and since additional devices can no longer go above two, I restrict that to two as well, but Evernote added web access and I have twice tried to remove it and twice told removal was successful and now I have used up all my disconnect requests and told to use a pricey option.

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I figured I would not be able to use Evernote at all until month ends, and would then have same problem all over again.  But I asked Alexa if apps other than browsers had cookies (yes), and if Evernote had cookies (yes).  I cleared cache but could not find where to delete cookies as Evernote is not a browser.  Asked Bard for how to clear cookies on Evernote.  Turns out it is next to clearing cache.

1. Tap on Apps & notifications in Android Settings
2. Tap on See all apps.
3. Scroll down and tap on Evernote.
4. Tap on Storage & cache.
5. Tap on "Clear cache" and "Clear storage".

On 4/16/2016 at 9:08 AM, CreativeSoul said:

Sometimes I want to write long texts within Evernote (like Texts for a Blog or even a book), but I want to chop up the scenes in to different notes.

You might consider creating an Outline ahead of time then using that outline for titles beginning with those indexes (03._a)   leave some space in between for insertions.   Just a thought, I'm not that organized.  Someone posted a nice article of what they did but I could not find it.  Most people I think just start writing in Word or similar by Chapters, at least the formatting will be consistent.

2 hours ago, DTLow said:

2 hours ago, dmcritchie said:

I make sure that important words are in the Title or at least in the text.

Do you have a master list of these keywords?  I like having the taglist to chose from.

 

I said I avoid using tags.   If I did they would be like  "Firefox",  "Evernote", "Photography" so would be rather useless if everything would be mostly those.  I make sure important words are added to title or text if they are not there an don't rely on or use tags.

For the part you quoted here is an example Actual title of an article was
"Video Lessons: Build your Site with Joomla 3"  which I keep in my note with the link, but my title in Evernote becomes:
"Joomla, Video Lessons: Build Site"    with the most important word first and remainder shortened to fit in Snippet view for list of articles because the title line does not wrap.   The text of note is  to the article and reads:

Video Lessons: Build your Site with Joomla 3
:: Check out the Brian Teeman's Joomla video course on How to Build a Site. After you watch this video course you'll be able to create a fully-functional Joomla 3 website.
https://www.siteground.com/tutorials/joomla-video/build-joomla3-site/

followed by the outline of the videos (had to use No Style in Firefox or a bookmarklet to be able to extract).

The only use of tags I used was to select articles for presentations  with structured tags like  en-pr-2014, en-pr-2015 (didn't get that far), en-pr-clip, en-pr-link    all could be found in search with  tag:en-pr-* (and they aren't within the articles)   There was a problem perhaps they did not work in web view at time -- they do work now, for sure.

You can get a list of the tags you use under  View > Tags View (toggle). 

On 4/23/2016 at 5:22 AM, CreativeSoul said:

Thank you all for your interesting and creative work-arounds. I think table of contents or the workaround with the tags are useful, but I don't know whether I could integrate them into my workflow in EN after 2 years. I barely use tags (i don't feel comfortable with them). Anyways thanks again for your help, I hope that the EN-Team will think about this feature again! Does somebody know, why Evernote is not implementing this feature? 

 

 

I can certainly understand a disdain for tags, I've seen Firefox destroyed because of tags and a misunderstanding on the part of Firefox developers that keywords were the same as tags. 

If I used tags almost all my notes would have useless tags.   I make sure that important words are in the Title or at least in the text.  I might also point out that in web pages if you have keywords (tags in Evernote context) that are not in the content the Google search extracts a penalty, so if you were to extend the same principle to Evernote -- it should be in the content and would be found anyway. I can't imagine it working faster if I used tags instead of actual words in content.

I also rearrange words in the title so most important word is first, so an alphabetical sort of titles works well when sorted as such.  Though I normally use the default -- updated in descending order.   A rule of thumb can be to take the original title, place the most important word first followed by remaining words,  comma, then the beginning words (the comma indicates a break in arrangement).  Anybody familiar with KWIC indexes would recognize the pattern.   Actually I see KWOC, which I never heard the term before is more what I am referring to.

I never heard of KWOC before but I guess it is closer to what I mean -- KWIC / KWAC / KWOC.    Also see Key Word in Context - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

With embedding folders within folders in Evernote there would be three problems.

1) You have a specification limit of 250 folders total.  When I discovered that and that I only had 100 more to go, I virtually stopped making new folders unless they were going to be public. 

2) You can only use a folder name once so you cannot use as a folder name within two stacks, nor would you be able to if you could within two different folders.

3) If you make a folder public you specify that folder name in the url, for instance http://www.evernote.com/pub/dmcritchie/foldername1   (l have no such folder)  But that means to me that it would be difficult to have a structure of folders within folders.

Of course Evernote uses the term notebook instead of folder.

Interesting point raised that folders may in fact be a tag in database. For a search of a folder you must place the folder at the beginning of the search and you can't for instance restrict to two or more folders, you have a choice search one folder or all folders.       

notebook:folder1  Evernote feature request

Rather than posting my comment in this huge thread, I've started a new discussion that includes what I've seen here as wanted plus some solutions found in this discussion in this same group, plus my own comments and workarounds.

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