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But...but...isn't W10 spyware...??

I've got ~10K notes, so you're managing 45K without issues gives me hope. Thank you for the tweak suggestions - I will try them and see how it goes. Beyond that, I may add an SSD to the list of upgrades my machine needs (I like this machine's screen size and Bang & Olafsen speakers, and since I'm on Windows 8, hopefully Microsoft won't force me into Windows 10 for a while yet). Cheers.

I appreciate your understanding. I hoped I could do some things on my end without having to bug Support, they're busy enough as it is. But yeah, I may go that route if my current set up doesn't improve performance. Cheers.

Re: disk, I've got a HDD, not SSD on an Asus laptop with 12GB RAM. I'm using v6.22.3.8816 (08816) Public (CE Build ce-62.6.10954). My EXB file is 6.13GB Re: rebuild time, after a quick "fix all notes", I clicked on "Optimize database", a progress bar appeared, and it took all day (from some time in the morning through till some time in the evening) to complete. Then Evernote was in not responding mode indefinitely...at some point after at least a half hour, I shut down the machine, rebooted, restarted Evernote, "not responding" was back like Jason Voorhees...shut it down again, restarted again...and now, it appears to be running crisply. Started faster than I've ever seen it start before. Now I'm trying to do a search. I start typing into the search field...not responding. I force close the app, try to start it again, now it won't even start. Previously, I would have to restart machine in order to restart Evernote, but I've since realized I can invoke the Task Manager and close the Evernote processes that were still running even though the app had been shut down - this allowed me to resart Evernote. One thing I'm now trying that appears to be helping (as in the last 20 minutes) ...I've turned off both Snippet View as well as Note Panel - there are no longer any images being served in my main list. Sucks that I'm paying for a service and can't enjoy its full functionality, but I need the stability.

I've reinstalled my then current version searched activity logs for "errors" and "failures" (there were none. Not one, through over 140 pages of activity logs) upgraded to the latest version rebuilt the database (took nine hours. Yeah, nine of them). Yet still, after all of this, every time I touch Evernote for Windows, I'm banished to not responding hell. WTF? This thing is pretty much useless. WHY? Evernote for Android, no problems. Evernote web version in a browser, no problems. I would love to just stick with my phone app and the web version, while ripping Evernote for Windows off my machine and never, ever, trying to run it again. Ever. But there are tasks that can ONLY be done in a desktop app, like exporting notes/notebooks, encryption (such as it is), etc...and that is what is most frustrating. I'm beholden to using this piece of *****, but it just refuses to work for me. This is about the point when I should cue all the people who're going to say "works fine on my machine." And that's terrific, except I don't use your machine. This entire, ongoing lack of functionality is utterly depressing. What ELSE can I try to rectify this? Is there ANYTHING I can do?

Trying to add a comment at the top of a web clipping is a mess, the formatting is almost never clean, nor does the remove formatting thing work very well. It'd be extremely helpful to include the remarks field that was/will soon again be in the Chrome Web Clipper to Web Clipper for Android. Being able to annotate/comment on a clipping in real time while the thought is fresh is very helpful and increases the usefulness of the clipping specifically, and Evernote in general.

Am I getting the correct impression that Evernote is essentially saying "Hey users, we heard you, and yes, you can now share stacks of notebooks! Welcome to Spaces!"

Wow. I remember when I thought 1,000 notes was a lot. Then, before you know it, I hit 5,000. I'm hovering just under 8,000 notes right now - 100,000 is breathtaking. NIce to see Evernote has that kind of capacity, I've got lots of room to grow! Granted, number of notes and size of notes is not the same thing. Some notes are very small in size; others can be quite large. So, count of notes is just one measure, but not the only one. Regardless, whether number or size, the message seems clear - Evernote can grow with you.

Hmm...interesting question! I'd probably not want attachments to be editable within Evernote. I think I'd rather edit some document closer to its original source, and just update a copy to Evernote if need be. But, that's just me.

I believe find/replace within one note is currently available in Evernote for Windows. But a global find/replace engine? To be able to run find/replace - for all notes; or - all notes in this/these selected notebooks; or - all notes with this/these selected tags; Now, that would be awesome. C'mon, Evernote. It can be done.

It's not a competition or race. Just a function of time and use approach. For example, sometimes I have one long note that works well as one long note. Other times, I'll break that note up into several more focused notes and the tie them together with links. If, for example, you've set up a notebook for receipts that you share with your accountant, and then take picture notes of every receipt, tagged accordingly, that can ramp up note numbers pretty fast. Or, if you are doing research, clipping articles, taking notes on readings, again, that can add up. You may be taking picture notes of all your kids' report cards, drawings and paintings, maintaining an Evernote fridge door type of notebook. Or a renovator taking lots of before and after pictures, making notes on tough challenges and how you solved them. The more you use Evernote, the steeper the proliferation rate. I remember when I hit the 100 note milestone, and the 1,000 note milestone. The first time I engaged this thread I was at 4,000 notes, now I'm over ~7,000 10 notes, 1000 notes, 10,000 notes, 30,000 notes. The only thing that matters is that you're getting value out of Evernote, however many notes that takes. And it's good to know that Evernote has sufficient capacity for most people's needs.

Indeed, most noteworthy. Good on you for clarifying for us, thanks.

Right?!

When accessing Evernote through a browser and in the Notes view, the total note count is in the top left corner. When accessing Evernote in Windows, again, upper left. Having done this, I'm noticing that the two numbers across my devices are not the same. Why is this? That's a whole other question, to which I've no clue. Oy vey.

Good question! Here's my issue with this - if you fully clip a web article, there's no clear space above it where you can type a comment without it being messed up by the formatting of the article heading. But, on my laptop, I use the Web Clipper that does provide comment functionality during the clipping, and inserts that entered data at the top, separate from the article font/formatting. For a clean, consistent look, I create a "MyHighlights" section, separate and above the clipped article, in which I annotate the note with key quotes from the article, any comments I want to add towards a conversation, and links to other articles in my Evernote. Most of this is towards the curation of an open, published notebook I call TheIceberg, which shares more of the background/sources behind a tweet or online comment I make that is usually just "the tip of..."

When I'm on my computer, and I want to clip a web page using Web Clipper extension for Chrome browser, there's a spot to enter comments that will show up above the clipped content, which also (correctly) means above the formatting of the web page content. When I clip while on my Android phone (by sharing to Evernote in smartphone Chrome browser), while there's the option to add tags and select the notebook, there's no opportunity to add comments. I've developed a workaround, but it'd be much slicker/easier/faster if the opportunity to add comments while on my smartphone was just as it is for the Web Clipper add-on in my Chrome desktop browser. Some may be wondering what my workaround is - I clip the page without the entire article and use a tag called "ClipThis"; later, on my laptop, I'll clip the whole article, add my comments, and afterwards delete the previous content-less clipping. Functional, but not very elegant.

"Duly noted" is great...but when is it going to happen? (for all platforms).

So, with this extensive Evernote experience, (and perhaps this is a digression) how do you compare the niche of each service? People are willing to pay for storage on Dropbox, Drive, Box, etc. Why would Evernote not offer tiers up to.. whatever it takes to facilitate users keeping all their notes within Evernote? I do not want to juggle multiple Evernote accounts or divvy up across various services (more than I already do, that is. Hey Evernote, if you're listening, I would pay more.

Back when computers were new, "folders" were used as a motif familiar with people using paper, a physical thing with physical limitations. We don't share with carbon paper anymore either, because Evernote is not paper, it's "folder management" is not its base approach, nor should it be clawed back towards that basis. Its strengths and advantage is precisely that it is not paper, it is free of paper's limitations. I can't wait to finish scanning all my old paper DayTimer books into Evernote.

Evernote is the past and folders are the efficient ideal? Alright then, I'm done here. Good luck.

I hear you, but I'm not a tag zealot - as I said, I've seen cons with tags in addition to the pros. I also recognize that your post was about the colour-coding. To be honest, I doubt I'll even use that. I agree it doesn't present a compelling use value. BUT, when you expressed concern about how to find stuff in Evernote, I focused on that. Colour coding isn't likely to help you a whole lot. But what is? Developing your grasp of what makes Evernote a strong platform. Of course, if Evernote is not for you, it's not for you. There's choice out there, maybe you may want to try Microsoft OneNote. From that angle, my response was to not leave "how to find stuff in Evernote" dangling unaddressed, because that's not a problem for me or other with many more notes than I'm managing.

There are a lot of articles showing various ways people approach and tackle "finding stuff in Evernote." Since I decided to make Evernote the foundation of my info ecosystem, I've invested time in learning about various approaches (lots of notebooks vs. one giant notebook, a gazillion tags vs. very few vs. none at all; saved searches, advanced search methods...). I would encourage you - if you want to get more comfortable finding stuff in Evernote, take some (more?) time to research and find methods that work for you. Personally, I've always hated folders because I've never liked the idea that a note must reside in one folder and when a note can fit in more than one folder, I'd have to make a decision on which one in which to save it. That's when I began to really appreciate tags. Then I learned that too many tags has its own drawbacks... and putting more muscle into searching was recommended. Recently I've also developed my own system for how I measure engagement with a note and its relationship to other notes in a topic, which takes my degree of connection to my notes that much further. At the end of the day, I've found and have seen in others that, when you make the jump to that next level of getting what makes Evernote rock, the last thing you'll worry about is how to find stuff. I went from 1000 notes to just over 4000 notes in a year, and am impressed to see people managing tens of thousands of notes in Evernote. Hope it works out for you.

I might. I've already started a manual system of a) quantifying the degree of engagement with each note and creating relationships to other notes by pasting links to/from other notes, ensuring keywords are in all related notes and saving searches with those keywords, etc. A quicker way to tie notes together might be useful for someone looking for an easier way to do what I've begin to do. However, for me, the manual, deliberate attention and time given to articulating the relationships between notes helps me absorb the info in my notes, so I may not want a method for doing this quicker/easier... curating my notes is part of my process of retention/fluency in a given topic.

I have a little over 4,000 notes, and I'm impressed and relieved to see people running >7x where I'm at currently.