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Yep. That works. Much appreciated. Thanks!

I need to reinstall the Legacy Windows app and the only link I've found, that pops up in every search engine is the same one that leads to a post in this forum from a guy answering his own question and that link is dead. The page is no longer valid. Does anyone have an up to date link for it? That's all I really need. Additional gripe came to mind after getting here to ask that one question. So if you're bored and want to read more...... I'm glad that evernote is devoting a good amount of resources into improving the mess they made when they abandoned the design that was working very well. In the meantime, Evernote has made the "Legacy" version available for people like me who don't want to be robbed of the ability to have a customized toolbar that uses space that is wasted in the new design's "material design" which is senseless on a PC since you aren't usually poking fat fingers at a large display. Likewise, I'm sure the lack of a useful tray icon that has just clickable options split by a quick note sense for the hundreds of users of small windows devices out there. But for the majority of Windows users, the tray icon in the older version is far superior. because I could do a variety of things with 1-2 clicks with very little movement of the mouse. Often, once I clicked the tray icon I could look away before even clicking on the choice I wanted and hit it every time. In short, I could get more done in less time and that's really the goal, right? Well, I don't know if I didn't have a choice or if I overlooked it but it seems like an update was needed - I assumed it was security related - and suddenly I was on the latest version. Yes, it's improved. I'll even say that I like it. But it doesn't improve on what I mentioned above. To be useful, it needs to have customizable shortcuts that are up front and center. I don't want to go through a dropdown menu when a button did the work. If this bothers the artists the created the interface to a utility, then do something cool like provide optoinal resizable, custom colorable, toolbars on all four sides of the screen that can each be toggled independently where shortcut icon can be resized, grouped into sub-folders, rearranged, and moved between active toolbars, And while you're at it, throw in an additional but optional floating customizable resizable toolbar, and make each capable of holding duplicate shortcuts so the same shortcut could be on all five. I've heard the excuse that "you can't please everyone" and I say that with the tools and skills available, that's simply not true. If each user can customize, then everyone can be happy. It may be extreme but it would do the job. Otherwise you either have a large chunk of people using an insecure old app on Windows or you're spending money keeping both up to date.

Lololol. Before responding 3 years later on a now 6 yrold post, I had to re-read this to Make sure that it wasn't me actually typing all of that. 😁 The problem was and STILL is the same... If you don't use Evernote in a way that makes sense to the obviously superior engineers and leadership at Evernote, you're doing it wrong. Change what works for you into a way that Evernote knows is best and make a better you! This is nonsense, as are the excuses being made for Evernote such as the demand being low for such features. If demand were critical, we would be no further than we were in the early 70s. Persoal computers weren't in demand. The Atari game system wasn't in demand. No one was demanding laptops, mobile phones, tablets (still a product in search of a market), and the lost goes on...bodycams, drones, self-driving cars... This industry of information is not consumer driven. There were no surveys asking if We wanted an internet economy. Apple didn't create the iPhone Because it was the top requested item on Macintosh message boards. Innovation and success in the marketplace is not consumer driven. It's driven by innovators with vision. People who have ideas for solving problems who take the extra step and find a way to make the solutions happen. I am stunned that anyone who knows anything at all about business, economics, or software development would be so disconnected from reality to say "with yourself plus 2 supporters in favor of this feature..." And proceed to insult and belittle anyone wanting to use software in a way that it wasn't planned or invisioned. Any tech company with any common sense has a constant ear to the ground looking for the next possible idea that can possibly separate them from their competitors. These ideas don't manifest themselves in groupthink. They come from out of the box thinking. They come from those people who are constantly brainstorming and creating ever more efficient and effective methods of getting the things they want to get done completed. Aligning product development to customer polling data is the fastest route to stagnation. The winners of the future will be those that generate new products, services, and features despite there being no existing demand. This what industry leaders do. Everybody else is just a follower and is destined to be forgotten. Meanwhile, since it's obvious Evernote isn't going to do it, I guess I'm going to grab the API dev kit and see if I can't figure out a good way to do it myself. I recently sold my ISP to a bigger player after spending several years providing internet service to people who live in areas where the big carriers didn't see enough demand. I wasn't quite sure what I was going to do next but this seems just as good as anything and might even be fun. 😁 Assuming I find a way to make it work, I will then come back here and let those who are interested in helping test it, give it a try. Wish me luck!

Why do so many people focus on "cleaner looking" when we're discussing a utility? I could have a much cleaner garage by hiding every single tool but does that make things that I do in the garage more efficient? I got a chuckle today when I logged in here to report something and read this note about the Android app. "Turn your phone’s home screen into your new productivity hub. Our new List widgets surface your most important notes and tasks, so you can take action in Evernote without even opening the app. Choose from the following widget configurations: Note List: Scroll through your notes or shortcuts and open them with a single tap...." Meanwhile the tray icon in Windows has been a disaster since inception with all three right-click items present within the left click as well. , except on the left click, "Quit Evernote" is actually within a menu that is entirely empty except for "Quit Evernote". And where we used to be a short distance from customized buttons at the top of the note, we now have to travel with the mouse to the upper right and pull down a long list of items that can take you to the bottom of the screen before you find what you're looking for. All hail efficiency!

I'm not sure if this will help or not but it may be worth a try, Have you checked the online versions to see if it's there? The previous version doesn't have a trash bin in the web app, but the new version does. I don't know if it's the case for everyone else, but altogether I have 6 versions. Old and new desktop, old and new web app, old and new phone app. A change in one changes them all, but each does it a bit differently and at different times. It's worth checking if you haven't already, especially since the web app on the new version also has a recycle bin.

By the way.....how in the world does someone get over 10,000 posts in 2 years? That's like 14 posts per day! I don't want this to come off as fecetious.... I really want to know.... That has to take you every bit of 2-3 hours per day and I just don't understand having that kind of free time.

OK Oldtymers... before you rip me for my low level 2 status, see my profile. My time with evernote in this thread is second only to dazumped. I just rarely had reason to come here before now and it's not to gripe, but to hopefully convince Evernote to save itself. To do so, I'm going to have to educate this young whippersnapper about a few things in the business world. Believe me, it's gonna hurt me more than it hurts him..... 😛 This statement is absolute nonsense... "It makes no sense to define the own nessisities as a blueprint for the general....." The reason that Evernote became the top dog, gaining up to 1 million new subs PER MONTH at one point is because they understood that there is no blueprint. Everyone is different and what works for one doesn't for another. To have broad appeal means to provide OPTIONS. It's these options that separated Evernote from other similar apps. Suddenly these people, many who have been here for as long or longer than I have, are thrust against the wall, not with just change, but change that fundamentally forces them to accomplish less with more time and work put in. It would be one thing if it was an improvement in efficiency for some people and a loss for "oldtymers" that can't adjust to the new ways. But that isn't what has happened here. My daughter working on her Doctorate is about to shelve Evernote for something else and she uses it in a completely different way than I do for different reasons. The 10.x version, no matter how "pretty" doesn't work for her. It doesn't work for me. There is no possible way to change the way she or I use it to make it more efficient except to simply not use it. I have 11 years of data saved in mine. She has almost hald of her high-school and beyond life in hers. And you're suggesting that we just pack up and move and roll with it? Or should we stay and waste time by doing more work to accomplish the same thing? The reason that there were so many options available was because over time they knew that to be a real powerhouse they had to cater to all the different ways that people needed to do different things. New versions of software come out to increase market appeal, thereby increasing demand and increasing sales. It's like a car manufacturer decided to push out a new version of a base model ford escort with a manual two-speed transmission, less power, no stereo, no powerpoint, manual windows, wipers with one speed, and a marvelous paint job and your argument seems to be "but it's pretty!"..... Clearly your two years of using evernote plays a factor. But here's the reality from a business stanpoint... The Legacy version isn't being updated anymore. Soon it will become a security risk and people will be forced to make a decision. When that time comes, if the new version isn't capable of delivering what their users need, they will go spend their money elsewhere. All of those small market segments that each little feature was put in to accomodate will find something else that does it better and they'll go somewhere that they can get what they need. Each will have their own unique reasons for leaving but leave they will....much faster than they'll be able to replace them with new customers that want fewer features because the fewer features that are there, the more options people have...many being free. When it happens, investors will stop investing, value will drop, people will begin selling their stock off as the stock value plummets and then people will start loosing their jobs at evernote. And with infrastructure being much slower at reacting than markets, they'll be unable to keep up with the decline and will trigger an even bigger sell-off of stocks. I've seen bigger companies than this just plummet to bankruptcy in a few months like this and if/when it happens the product you're happy with will be at risk as well. Those of us invested in this product don't want to lose it. Getting these features back in line with their market isn't just about anyone's personal needs. It's a collective need. Whether you realize it or not, because of the sheer size and value of Evernote as a company, your comments are counterproductive even for your own simple needs. **My apologies. I need to make an edit here. Above I made an incorrect statement when I said "It's like a car manufacturer decided to push out a new version of a base model ford escort with a manual two-speed transmission, less power, no stereo, no powerpoint, manual windows, wipers with one speed, and a marvelous paint job and your argument seems to be "but it's pretty!"" Allow me to replace it with something a bit more accurate: It's like a car manufacturer decided to cancel a high-end SUV and run out in the middle of the night to replace those already in people's driveways and garages with a shiny new version of a base model ford escort with a manual two-speed transmission, two-stroke engine, no stereo, no powerpoint, manual windows, one speed wipers, and a marvelous paint job and your argument seems to be "but it's pretty!" Again, my apologies for the oversight.

This has been annoying me for quite a while as it makes no sense but should be incredibly easy for the devs to fix. I haven't been involved much on the boards over the years, but have been a user since 2010. (Yes, my profile says 2012...something I argued about and lost a long time ago because of a silly period of time in my life where I took 6 months off from life for a zen experience lol) I only revently got involved here because my user experience has been sliding rapidly and I'm concerned with the direction things are going. The new version of evernote seems to have been pushed out too early with an amazing lack of personalization capability which is simple disturbing. When things software is changed or updated, people expect that this usually means more features, more flexibility, and more personalization. What we received instead is a redesign with an unfamiliar feel - something that is hard for those with years of habits, fewer customizations, and less flexibility. The one thing that grew was the number of clicks and workarounds needed to accomplish the same tasks. Simply accepting this as the price of progress and/or saying that the problem is the actual users that aren't comfortable with change is a horrible way to handle it. This post is a perfect example of that. The proposed solution is a desktop link to a standalone note? Previously, one could right click the tray icon and select the following: Open Find New Note Clip Screenshot Copy Selection Paste to Evernote Quit And access a submenu to Start at Login, Sync in the background, configure shortcut keys, or redefine what the single left-click did when you clicked it... which let you choose one of the right click options as the single left-click. So in my case because of the work that I do, the left click assigned to screencapture appealed to me while my daughter preferred to have a left click on the icon create a new note right there without opening the app... sort of how the quicknotes work now but with clearly defined tags and although it would disappear beneath other windows, it was on the taskbar and could be brough forward with a simple click. One thing she would do in college was open a new note as a narrow panel on the right and copy details from things she would find researching and paste them into her note to consolidate her information for a paper or for study.....left, find what you want, copy, move right, paste. Now consider the "upgrade". For me, I load up several screens of various parts of the network showing houses, line of sight, etc. I'll have 6-10 windows representing difference parts of the network and need to take a screencap of each to send to a customer to explain a problem. A simple screencap won't work without editing because they don't need to see everything in my taskbar or what browser windows I have open as some might reveal personal information of other customers. Before, as I said, my left click was assigned to screen capture. So the process was: Click tab 1. Click evernote Icon, Click corner of page just above icon. Hold while dragging to upper left, release. Click the next tab and repeat. 3 steps per tab..... Now there's an extra step. Just one...but then again, if I click the popup that comes up after I now have it sitting there ready to review. When I get done there may be 12 individual windows right there ready to review, edit, crop, save, whatever I need to do even if it means bouncing betweek a couple several times, it's easy. The new version shows a popup as well, but when I click it, it doesn't open a new window. I don't know what it does anymore. I just tried it in case it was a bug. Still doesn't. No one actually tested this? So I have to go into the app now and work with them. I see I need to crop them. Well, old version - TOOLS>CROP... done;. If there is something severely wrong with the image, I can right click, and open the image directly in photoshop or some other editing software. file>save and it's updated in evernote. WONDERFUL! But I can't even crop in the new evernote. It's not a function that's on the menu. I can open it on the main page into Windows snip and sketch or whatever it's called, but I can't choose Photoshop or any other app to edit in. And this is just a small sampling of the loss of capabilities....increases in time and clicks that it takes for me to do things. But then there's my daughter. She's grown and she has her own account. And for her, the process is even more bizarre. Where she used to have a note popped on her desktop by a single click on the tray icon that she chose a different setting for, that she could copy/paste things from a browser window on the left and a narrowed Window for a note on the right, it's become unusable for that purpose. The small box takes up almost 1/3 of the screen leaving a wasted inch to the right. It disappears everytime she moves away from it and to get it back she has to click the icon. Another alternative she tried was to put it straight in evernote but then that takes up over half the screen. The only thing close is to open the app (right click new note and right click open evernote both launch the full app but new note creates a new blank note. ) Then she can right click the new blank note and select the opton to open in a new window. Then she can resize it, but due to the menu can only resize it to about 1/3 the screen space making the material she's looking at on the left much smaller. And this kind of nonsense is going on all over the place with literally hundreds of other use-cases. It's been well over a year since this rolled out and it doesn't seem that any of it is being addressed. They didn't bother to actually go study how people use it. They didn't try to understand that all those features and options weren't just developed and stuck there to make it look more complex. Each was put there to accomodate a small user group so they could have the "right thing" for as many people as possible. Now they've gone and alienated all except for the few that the new app really works for and substituted art work and pretty displays for functionality. Yes, it looks much more pleasing to the eye. But that doesn't make it an uber useful swiss army knife of a note-taking app. It makes it pretty. And pretty isn't going to make anyone pay money for a Utility. We need software that makes our lives easier, not harder. We need to accomplish more for less money and less time. I've sat here and read so many comments from veterans and support and the answers are always the same... "All you have to do is just click click clickity click click" and that's not an answer. It's a workaround to accomplish something that could be done much more easily before and shouldn't require a workaround. I'm not here to bash Evernote. For over a decade they've made my life better. Made it easier to get more done in less time which provides more time to live. I don't want to gripe. I want to keep getting things done. I want new features that improve my workflow. Not prettier features that break my habits while taking more steps. And it needs to happen soon. Right now this huge chunk of people is using the previous version of the desktop which isn't being updated. This means no new securty patches. In time it will be deprecated. And if the new app isn't brought up to par before that happens, it's not going to be pretty. Fortunately there is still time. I know the codebase changed in this one to improve performance which is good. But my old version still works circles around it. This needs to be addressed. Other than that, they don't have to work from scratch. They have the recipe for preventing it in their posession. Just mimic the new app in the newer programming language and let us all get back to working instead of having to come to a message board and explain what they're doing wrong.

As noted above.... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.... I have a friend with the ugliest car in the world and he loves it. No one can make everyone happy which is why there are alternatives. As for tags, it's taken me a long while to get used to using them instead of folders and I've been doing both photography and IT work for 30 years....yes, back before there was an internet! I had decades of habits forced on me that I had to break when the digital revolution came to photography and to note-taking. With my IT background I knew intuitively that tags were superior because folders themselves are nothing more than tags on the storage drive. The difference is that with folders, you only get one tag for all the information. Windows and other GUIs simply made those tags appear as folders and showed what they were related to which made sense when you had a one-to-one relationship. The problem is that you end up having to either remember precisely which folder something is "in" or save the same file in multiple places which is a very inefficient way of doing things. Tags lets you get around this. You can tag a single file or in this case "note" with multiple tags. So for instance, suppose you have a lovely picture of your child, her best friend, grandma, a UFO in the background, and you used a fancy new lens to take it. Which folder does that go into? Your storage by date? So if you used a date structure to your folders, you would need to remember the approximate date to get that pic of grandma if she passed away. And you would need to sift through countless photos to find the few pics of her that you have. If you stored it in a folder called Grandma, then you'll have to go through all those folders to find the good pic of your daughter for her wedding reception. Or if she wanted some good pics of her best friend, or even if you wanted to pull together the UFO pics you've taken...In each case you would want to work with them as a group. But how if they're strung out in different folders? Make copies and drop them into yet another folder? So now you have pics by dates, copies of the same pics in a grandma folder, another folder for your daughter with a copy, a UFO folder, and so on? How many copies will you have? How many ways can you break a picture down? Tags solves this. You can tag an individual photo with as many tags as you want. Later if you find yet another reason to tag it, you just add the tag. You want to group all pics of grandma? Just choose the grandma tag and now you have everything with grandma in it. On the drive, it's not any different than the folder structure you're used to but you can have multiple associations instead of just one. Notes have a lot in common with images. They can be anything....including photos. They can represent time, dates, events, recipes, notes, memories, shopping lists, music, literally any and everything. Choosing one specific folder can be extremely difficult and the number of folders could be enormous depending on how detailed you want to get. Or it could be simple. But if simple, tags works for that too. Just re-use the same few tags as you would re-use the same few folders. I really hope this helps. It does take some adjustment....and I'm still not fully adjusted despite knowing darned well that it's a superior method and not any different at the disc level. I think that if they were simply called "multi-folders" from the beginning with folder shapes instead of just being words, I would have transitioned much more easily. One recent development that is quite incredible is a Windows Store app called "Tag Explorer" which takes the Windows "File Explorer" to a whole new level blending the terms and graphical method of representing the data as we have grown used to, but employing tags in the structure instead of traditional 1:1 folder naming. Now if only there was a way to blend that into Evernote!

Curious... it says "Feel free to close this window and proceed"....did you try that?

If the device has a proprietary driver there may be app specific settings available that will let you fine-tune it for specific apps. My Fujitsu tablet PC has such a function. The driver icon appears in the system tray.

It's October and I don't see a solution given above but I see two level 5 comments, one that a "duplicate post" was removed. Assuming the dup was actually the solution? Since you have multiple machines already synchronizing fine, I would assume some kind of database corruption on the local machine. Possibly disc errors. You could go through all the trouble of a surface scan and other such things - which you may want to do anyways - but as for evernote, I would check and see if there's any information on that machine in that version of evernote that isn't on the other machines. Data, if any, that the user has put in evernote since the last sync you would want to copy elsewhere temporarily. Then go to TOOLS>OPTIONS then the GENERAL tab and if you look towards the bottom you'll see the path for the current evernote folder. Click CHANGE and then change the name of the evernote storage folder from Evernote to whatever you want. Evernote2 for example. Then save. This has the effect of telling evernote that it has an empty folder and it will then download/sync everything from the servers just like a new installation. From there you can do what you want with the other folder. If you feel like there's data that wasn't copied to Evernote's servers, you can keep it there and have someone run some disk tools and data recovery software and try to recapture it to be put in your shiny new folder. Or you can simply delete it, leave everything as it is, or rename it something like Evernote3 so you can then remove the 2 from the new folder. The choice at that point is up to you but you'll have evernote working properly and then be able to copy any information you saved at the beginning to the new folder.

If you copied and pasted the link, the best you can do is maybe try the wayback machine at https://archive.org/web/ and hope that it shows up there. Whether or not it shows will depend on a number of factors but it's at least worth trying. Going forward, there are three main ways to get an actual image instead of a link. One is if you right-click it and see "Copy Image" - that's what you want. Then paste that into evernote. Often that option isn't available but you'll still see "Save image as" which you would have to save to a local place like your desktop then move to evernote. Or you might get "Copy image address" which you can usually open a new browser window on and paste that into the address bar and see the image by itself...then right click that and possibly copy or save it. There are also browser plugins for browsers that force the "copy image" or "save image as" options some of the time. If all else fails, you can use the screen capture function on evernote. The help files can guide you through that. Understand that all of these tools and options employed by the developers of the content you are looking to save are there to help them control copyright on the images. But often there's a misunderstanding of the specifics of copyright and both developers and content providers can get overlealous of images and/or accidentally employ one security level on the entire collection of images in a website while many images fall into other categories. There is a general consensus that you can use public images for personal use only which means for things like research, school work, etc. Ultimately it's your responsibility to know what the law is around such things so my advice is in no way meant to help circumvent copyright. Only to help you accomplish your goals assuming that you know that you have a right to the images.

I had a similar problem. Had to restore my computer from a backup yesterday. Tray icon keeps disappearing. So I came here to report it and when I tried to login I put in what I thought was the right password and it failed, but not only that, it told me I had to conract customer service and that I was completely locked out. I relaunched the app, went to Help and Learning in the menu which logged me in here with an autho token. Then went to https://www.evernote.com/client/web?referralSpecifier=mktgrepack_en_oo_web_hpg_V03&login=true#?hm=true& . Not sure if the same will work for you but worth a try.

Odd....after posting I could suddenly see the current posts...... methinks you have a bug.

Most recent post is October 2020? I've searched, reorganized by most recent post, and I can't get anything past October 2020.

This is today's developer environment. When you have something darn near perfect, I can't think of anything original to do to make it better, you just move things around. Now they have a ton of angry customers. Android developer team now has a job to do, which is to fix all the things people are mad about. So they will all get paid again for basically eventually putting it back much like it was previously.

I couldn't agree more. What is happening? Have you all lost your minds and decided to just change things for the sake of change? I didn't have an option here. I went to make a note and was taken to downgrade to the newest version without having a choice. Previously I had custom buttons where I wanted them so I could work efficiently. As mentioned above, capturing and annotating are a huge part of how I use Evernote. I had previosly created a notebook called "scratchpad" for random clips to be sorted later when I wasn't working on a specific project like capturing graphs of customer bandwidth utilization and emailing them to customers while handling trouble tickets, or browsing new recipes, or shopping for christmas, etc. Now I can't even figure out WHY it saves to that folder other than it was already set that way. And it's the only folder I can save to. There is no option to change it at all. For a while I thought you removed the capture capability entirely. But instead of a simple right-click/select full screen or a selected area, I have to click the icon, click a little monitor, capture what I want, open evernote, go to the folder, move it where I want it......just a lot more work. more clicks and more space between the clicks to do less....... Why in the world would you make any change that makes anything more difficult? Why do I have to dig through menus to do things that I was able to put a custom button at the top for before? Why are there so few options in the settings compared to before? If you all are just bored and feeling like you have to keep busy to justify your time....making changes for the sake of justifying the job.... why not improve things that need improving instead of breaking things that work well? Maybe give us more control over the arrow size in annotation? allow for the option to have a menu pop up after capturing to choose which notebook to save the capture to.... You know....make it EASIER to use, not more difficult. More features....not less. As pointed out above, you've made it more difficult to capture images, and because of that, reducing the number of people who will upgrade.

Stilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll waitinggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg

It really doesn't help when evernote keeps ***** up so many things that this gets pushed to the bottom. And the feature itself was one that few realized was there until just before it was taken away. Seriously, Evernote.... You had a GREAT feature here! It was much better than using standard speech to text that cuts you off in mid-sentence, you can't make a list from, and there is no audio backup file as there was in the evernote feature that was IMPORTANT! Think about it! You're driving, you make your note. You pause and it stops and you have to restart speech to text again. It gets ugly, gets things wrong, you keep trying to correct and finally you end up having to type your corrections while driving. In the evernote voice to text, it was simple. Press it once. It listens until you stop it. You don't have to worry about it timing out while you think through the list you're making. And in the event that something was wrong, no big deal. You have an audio backup file you can check later. Funny that my Alexa does the same thing now. I can go into the app and not only see what I said, but listen to the audio file if needed. They get it. Why don't you? You were on the cutting edge! And you took it away and put yourself on the back edge.

I do love a good, friendly debate. :-) You make some good points but there's a few things I think you haven't considered. First, the voice being used by these companies is just different. They aren't even worried about the ability to make a list. Right now their focus is to at least get the words chosen right and to keep it from cutting out while speaking or even totally failing to work. They have a LONG way to go before they'll be able to make a list of items with pauses between them as you think about what you want on the list. It's just not on their "to-do" list. Nor is keeping a backup audio file. For all the short commands it would fill up the memory with hundreds or thousands of files. Meanwhile, Evernote had something that worked perfectly for note-taking. Speech to text, that constantly refreshed so you could pause 10-20 seconds between items to think and continue adding to the list. And then if something was wrong, there was no need to immediately correct it - while driving. You could wait till later and review the audio file. It was as good as it gets for note-taking on a mobile and I'd even like it on my PC. If they made some major changes to the code or platform, I understand that, but really, what benefit did anyone gain from it? Is there any reason anyone can think of that this feature couldn't be easily ported to the new platform? As for the .0000007% - again. I don't think many people even knew it was there. That's a marketing failure. The product itself was very good. And aside from that, probably only .000001% of users actually bother to get on here and let their voice be heard. I think that using that as an excuse not to port a very useful and unique feature is extremely shortsighted. After all, think about Windows Mobile. Ahead of the game by years, but now pretty much cut out of the picture because they failed to recognize the demand until someone else had already taken the market. That's the same mistake being made now by evernote. In the end, we all want to be able to have an integrated note-taking system that can be used by both voice and touch depending on what the situation calls for. And if they don't do it, someone else will. And evernote will become the Windows Mobile of the note-taking world.

Wow. That's not very forward thinking. When the feature came out, no one told me about it. I stumbled onto it by accident. It's likely that few people even knew it was there. Then it was removed right when people were getting used to taking notes and such by phone. But the difference in the way it worked made this actually practical whereas other speech to text options do a horrible job of helping compile lists and they're very frustrating. Marketed properly it could be a big boost for evernote since you could actually make a list by voice that didn't include having to hit the button 20 times and a backup voice file to correct later if the text is wrong. But hey, what do I know about marketing and software? I'm just in tech sales.

Still waiting. When will the devs recognize that the text to speech feature that was built into evernote was NOTHING LIKE the OS versions? It continued to listen, through pauses and all. And provided an audio note as a back. No more repeating, deleting, etc. It was beautiful for making lists which is what evernote is for. It was NOT ideal for simple messaging which is what the OS versions of text to speech were good for. Why do software manufacturers, void of new and exciting ideas, start REMOVING perfectly good and working features just to "refresh" the app? This trend is driving me nuts as every time I get used to doing something, I have to take the time to re-thing and re-work how I do things. When you have something good, LEAVE IT. And if you find a way to improve or ADD functionality do so, but leave the rest alone!

For the record, evernote's implementation of speech to text was FAR superior to the standard speech to text feature, The built in speech to text in the phones cuts you off in the middle of sentences with the slightest pause, frequently refuses to work at all, and provides no backup audio so if after 3-4 times the text is wrong you have to stop and type which is terrible when driving and trying to speak a to do list. Evernote's speech to text remained on, until you stopped it. And provided backup audio. I could tap the icon, say what I needed, pauses and all as I thought, and then stop it and not worry if it got something wrong. i could correct it later listening to the audio if it was important. BAD call, Evernote. Just when I was getting ready to rant about how wonderful it is that you brought some contrast back into the desktop app! (Thanks for that by the way!) I'm assuming someone in development thought "Why do we have speech to text when everyone has a speech to text icon on their phone?" Well, that's why. Speech to text both by google and samsung's implementation among others is not geared towards anything more than a single sentence. It's very cumbersome to work with even in basic text messaging. Trying to make useful lists of things to do is absolutely horrid. Give it a try. Open a new note, tap your text to speech button, then start building a to do list for the day from memory. Do it once and you'll want the feature back as well. :-) Oh, and thanks for confirming at least so I'm not chasing down problems that don't exist. Is there any way to roll back to the previous version? If I had known this in advance I would have refused the update as long as I could.