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It's not possible to convert a Note Link preview from text-mode to content-mode.

I can insert Note Links and they will default to content-mode previews. But if they were originally (or changed to) text-mode previews, it's not possible to change them to content-mode previews.

The only workaround so far, is for me to delete the Note Link and reinsert them again, thereby defaulting to content-mode previews.

On 12/2/2022 at 6:44 AM, PinkElephant said:

May be, thanks for the confirmation.

Its just that iCloud Drive sync is (at least for me) integral to several workflows, and therefore can’t be turned off easily. However I don’t experience EN to be slow when syncing, even with iCloud Drive enabled.

I'm not sure what Evernote is syncing with iCloud for, as Evernote does have its own servers. Does it really store anything there? As a result, I think turning it off shouldn't affect any other app that uses iCloud?

I think there's been some new features in the pipeline already, either in beta or under development (see Ian Small's blog update). Assuming no major disruption from a vision or manpower perspective, Evernote should be business as usual to end Q1 2023, beyond which we will start to see Bending Spoon's influence coming through in the form of their new product updates.

I admit I'm a little concerned that Bending Spoon's a multimedia app company, and wondering how that might influence the direction of Evernote's design. But their app looks sleek - and they are startup-ish - so maybe some of that energy and talent will positively improve Evernote's culture as well.

Will I switch away from Evernote? Not any more than how I felt pre-Bending Spoon. I still can't find any viable alternative to Evernote. And there's really no major, convincing push factor that's driving me away from Evernote.

So I'll stay. Unless some app comes along with overwhelming pull factors that attracts me with dazzling new features.

On 8/31/2022 at 9:20 PM, PinkElephant said:

You should avoid early retirement of the app.

The note first needs to sync. Leave the note using the green checkmark. Then as long as it has a green triangle in the notes list, the sync has not yet happened.

To speed it up you can use the "sync now" option in app settings, synchronization.

If I press the Sync Now option, do I need to wait for the Sync Complete popup, or can I proceed to minimize the app? (e.g. switch app or lock screen)

On 8/22/2022 at 12:04 PM, John in Michigan USA said:

As in https://bear.app/ ? If you've also tried https://www.notion.so/ I'd be especially interested in your thoughts about them both, assuming you are using the latest IOS/Mac versions of everything Evernote...

Notion does not support offline notes (which is a subscription tier feature in Evernote).

Lack of offline support would be quite a problem, especially since sync/connectivity problems were already causing Evernote issues.

According to Apple AppStore Subscriptions page, my Evernote Personal subscription ends on 19 September 2022.

But my Evernote clients (Mobile, Desktop, Web) claim I am on Evernote Free, and forced me to logout of all clients except 2 (Free limitation).

My Apple Bill invoice says I subscribed on 20 September 2021. I should still have 1 month left in my Evernote Personal!

Heck, even the Evernote Forum side tag says I should still have an active subscription!

Recently I've been thinking how can I optimize Evernote's performance (esp Sync), and one thing I thought about, is the number of Notes that Evernote can handle.

Does anyone know how many Notes is Evernote optimized to handle, while still staying fast (wrt. to Sync, Editing, Crash, Responsiveness)?

And what are some steps one can take, in spite of having many notes?

Also, does reducing the number of notebooks toggled in Offline Downloads help with syncing speed?

7 hours ago, Phi87 said:

I am having this problem with the ChromeOS version. Whenever I edit a note on the chromeOS version (which was recently upgraded), I get a duplicate note. I am not editing on two devices or two sessions on the same laptop. Anyone else?

Do you mean that you worked on the note, saved it, then reopened the note in the same session, and got a duplicate conflict while working on it? Was it the Web Client, and did you close and reopen the Client?

I have encountered it a few months ago, especially when network requests are weak & when I opened/closed the session quickly. Since then I've tried to be a little more careful around notes and synced before re-edit (and maybe there was a bugfix, who knows 🤷‍♀️), so I hadn't encountered the problem of late.

I’ve definitely moved that note across notebooks before, so that might be the case!

@DTLow Oh. That's great!

I don't have any other note that is as long or as frequently updated to reference. Perhaps my note had a glitch due to Note Conflict, or some other one-off incident. Thanks!

Hi there!

Does anyone know how many versions are kept in the Note History? I noticed I only have logs going from today till April 28th 2022.

I checked the Evernote FAQs but they didn't mention the details.

I agree that if Evernote had Siri, and had Apple Watch integration, it would be near perfect!

Just curious why you preferred Google Keep over iOS Apple Reminders though?

Current

• In normal Notes View, you can see the Syncing Status of each note.

• In the Notes Widget, you cannot see the Syncing Status of each note.

Desire

You should be able to see the Syncing Status of each note.

Rationale

1. Evernote is currently pushing the Widgets feature. The Widgets should be as full-featured as the typical Notes View.
2. Syncing is a very important feature that reassures us that our data is saved.
3. iOS is horribly slow for Syncing data, making Point #2 much more problematic.

I highly encourage others to go out and try alternatives. There's no point in being too entrenched in a single software, and it's also a good opportunity to do some housecleaning of your notes moving it to a more permanent store.

Personally I was subscribed to Evernote for more than 5 years before I left in 2019 to try Microsoft 365, OneNote, Google Docs, Google Keep, Notion, SimpleNote.

This is what I've settled on:

• Google Keep - short-form; instantaneous sync
• Google Drive - medium-form; collaboration; fast sync
• Evernote - medium-form; sketching and annotation; unreliable sync
• MS Word - long-form; reports/charts/tables; slow sync
• MS OneDrive - archival; cheap 1TB + Office suite (as compared to all other cloud platforms like DropBox, Google Drive); slow sync

Google Keep became my main workhorse as I really just needed short-form, todo list functionality.

However recently I moved from Google Keep back to Evernote Personal as I realised I may work better with journaling capabilities in my todo lists (workweek planning). Plus, I've been taking several online professional courses that needed digital notetaking and annotations.

TLDR; go out and try alternatives. You may be surprised at what you will find, and hopefully your workflow and productivity will be all the better for it.

1 minute ago, PinkElephant said:

If you take a regular Handy picture (not a RAW), it will probably have 2MB, up or down

I wish it were that light!

I took 1 camera images on my iPhone using the Evernote camera option (Document Color setting), and it made my note 8MB!

That led me to investigate further. Retaking the same image using my iOS camera gave me a mere 3MB.

So Evernote might have a bug somewhere in the camera upload. Or it does a terrible HEIC to JPG(?) conversion.

But you are right in that, if each image was really in the 2-3 MB range, the Note size limit is not an issue that warrants an Image Resize/Resample feature.

40 minutes ago, PinkElephant said:

You may note that most subscribers have no issue with the upload limit

Alright, valid point taken.

The other benefits are still relevant: Mobile Data Usage (e.g. AT&T data plans), Note Render Responsiveness, Android/iOS Device Storage, additional resizing steps in an external app.

I don't want to sync 100MB of images (about a dozen images) when I open a Note. Plus Notes have max size limits (200MB). If I compressed it that's just a couple 15 MBs or so.

37 minutes ago, gazumped said:

what would you include and what would be excluded

Resize. Just resize.

Because image filesize is very correlated to Note Size, Note Responsiveness, Data Usage, Account Data Limits etc.

Resize is a very basic feature. Especially for notes taken using Camera on a mobile phone, then brought into Desktop.

If we go down the path of questioning every single new feature, we'll end up questioning the practicality and usefulness of various existing features are within Evernote, which may be very useful to you but useless to majority users. Have you ever wondered why Evernote can embed Dropbox documents, link to Calendar, annotate images, import templates, search within PDFs, etc.

The current workflow below is unacceptable:

1. Stop Evernote Desktop midway while taking notes
2. Take a photo using iOS camera
3. Crop and Resize and Save the image in iOS default photo editor
4. Go back to Evernote
5. Click on Add Image option
6. Add in Photo Gallery permissions to Evernote for the image
7. Finally select and import the image
8. Be able to view Image on Evernote Desktop

Or

1. Stop Evernote Desktop midway while taking notes
2. Click on Add Camera option in Evernote iOS
3. Take a Photo
4. Crop it
5. Go to Evernote Desktop
6. Use Windows Snipping Tool to take a screen capture of the image
7. Delete the original image
8. Paste in the Snipping Tool's image

Versus if Evernote actually has resize functionality

1. Stop Evernote Desktop midway while taking notes
2. Click on Add Camera option in Evernote iOS
3. Take a Photo
4. Crop and Resize it

Current Scenario

Currently, Evernote image resize does not affect the underlying image. E.g. Resizing an image smaller does not affect its filesize nor its resolution.

Expected Scenario

Evernote should allow us to resize and save the image as a way to resample the image.

Benefit of this Feature

Downsized images can help reduce the Note size. User will be able to conserve their upload limits, reduce their mobile operator data charges, save device storage utilization, and have their notes download and render faster.

For example, I had a Note which contained two images - camera captures of a presentation slide. The note was 15MB large. After using Windows Screen Snipping Tool to screen capture and paste back the images, my note was now ~400KB large. This is a reduction 2 orders of magnitude.

Upsized images can remove the inconvenience of using a separate image editor app, allowing users to zoom in and crop out details without causing excessive pixelization.

Facing so much sync issues.

• I left my Evernote Desktop open - went for 1 hr dinner
• During dinner I updated a note on Evernote iOS
• Half an hour I returned to Evernote Desktop, opened the note, and realised it wasn't updated
• I closed the note, reopened it. Still not updated.
• I went to Evernote iOS, forced a Sync
• Went to Evernote Desktop, reopened the note. Nope not updated.
• I closed the note, clicked into other notes, returned to Home Screen, reopened the note. Finally, it is updated!

WTF was that all about.

Do I have to second-guess all my notes by looking at the Modification Timestamp, to figure out if sync has been performed?

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I've even encountered cases where I updated a note on Evernote Desktop at home, and arrived in office the next morning to continue typing on another Evernote Desktop. And received a Note Conflict notification during lunchtime.

If it takes more than 8 hours to sync, and more than 12 hours to detect a Note Conflict, then I don't know what to say.

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Thankfully I managed to get my Evernote subscription refunded. It's not gonna be my main note-taking app until I see a manual Sync button on Desktop/Webapp.

The iOS Sync button is good but it's way too inaccessible. It has to be displayed front and center.

The golden benchmark is Google Keep. It's so good that it doesn't even need a Sync Button - instantaneous real-time updates almost like Google Docs multi-user collaboration. If I opened two Keep screens on different PCs, I can literally see myself typing in one screen on another screen.

I think creating a Headers TOC would be awesome for notes that require scrolling.

I could see it being used for many purposes. For long-form notes, it would be a navigational element. For medium-form notes, it could be a content summary, e.g. 5-8 lines of headers that describe perfectly the summary of the note.

Personally, I would use it a lot for medium-form notes, as most of my Evernote content is short-form to medium-form notes. Sure I could use MS Word or Google Docs, but well, I would be really happy if Evernote did include that feature.

1 minute ago, gazumped said:

I've always used the Evernote.com version.

Oic, I’m actually preferring that too since my browser is open most of the time too! Also it seems to be more reliable when i load notes or do syncing.

Thanks for your reply!

Hi gazumped, no problem, your reply is more than enough to clarify my doubts. Thank you!

Just out of curiosity, which version do you currently use?

Hello there!

I'm a long-time returning Evernote user. I'll like to know what's the difference between the Evernote Windows Store App, versus the Evernote Windows Desktop?

Do they have feature parity? Are some options missing in one compared to the other?

I'm currently using the Windows Store App, and I have noticed a trimmed down Options setting compared to what I was using 5 years ago. I don't know if things have changed since then; am I missing some options that only the Windows Desktop version would have?

Many thanks!

On 6/7/2021 at 4:10 PM, RomanKeller said:

Why is it not possible to drag and drop Tasks and Textblocks like on the Desktop ??? 

I think what he wants is this particular functionality of dragging bullet items up and down, which is present in the Web Client (1st pic), but missing in the iOS app (2nd pic).

Suggestion: Evernote Android to be able to drag up and down checkboxes, similar to the Evernote for Windows functionality.

This is a very convenient work flow.

• Tasklists naturally and frequently need to be re-arranged in terms of priority
• Drag up/down is a superior workflow to cut/paste
• Drag up/down is a superior workflow to cut/paste especially on mobile devices