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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 Evernote is currently pushing the Widgets feature. The Widgets should be as full-featured as the typical Notes View. Syncing is a very important feature that reassures us that our data is saved. 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.

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.

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.

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: Stop Evernote Desktop midway while taking notes Take a photo using iOS camera Crop and Resize and Save the image in iOS default photo editor Go back to Evernote Click on Add Image option Add in Photo Gallery permissions to Evernote for the image Finally select and import the image Be able to view Image on Evernote Desktop Or Stop Evernote Desktop midway while taking notes Click on Add Camera option in Evernote iOS Take a Photo Crop it Go to Evernote Desktop Use Windows Snipping Tool to take a screen capture of the image Delete the original image Paste in the Snipping Tool's image Versus if Evernote actually has resize functionality Stop Evernote Desktop midway while taking notes Click on Add Camera option in Evernote iOS Take a Photo 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? ==== 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. ==== 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.

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!

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

I would argue that Evernote is still a master of none right now. It's not a must-have, and many other apps possess many of its features. If I had never used Evernote, I wouldn't have a hard time getting used to the workflow of alternative apps. Nor would I have a hard time migrating old Notes, which I'd been slowly migrating to MS Office and G Drive since year 2015. As for Notion being heavyweight, I might have confused by using the wrong term. I meant, better featured. Notion is okay for personal projects, as it has free advanced features like custom typed properties, calendar view, multi-view data, reminders, rich content formatting, nesting, sharing, unlimited workspaces/boards. Of course, if you compare it to Glo-board, GitLab, YouTrack, Trello, they have Assignees, Burndown chart, Git integration, Commit Referencing, CI/CD, Project Statistics, etc. But I wouldn't use them for hobbies, nor would i use them with non-techies. They also cost a lot more. Anyway back to the point, I was hoping Evernote would be able to measure up to competition against other note-taking/tracking apps. I do agree with you though, that if it is not feasible for Evernote to implement it without getting bloated (for various reasons, be it technical, funding, strategic), I would not want the Kanban feature to be in.

You could also say that: Evernote looks like OneNote... Evernote drawings does the same thing as Google Keep drawings... Evernote serves the same function as Google Drive/OneNote/Google Keep/Notion... Evernote tasks is a weaker version of ToDoist/Notion Board... Getting Evernote to be like Trello isn't impossible. Notion had done it with their boards. I am currently using multiple tools together. But I do wish Evernote (or someone, anyone?!) could do it all. Then I wouldn't have so many apps... Google Keep: Super responsive, lightweight, temp notes / simple lists Evernote: Long-term, short-length, pretty notes / sketches Notion: Heavyweight Kanban To-Do Boards MS Office: Reports / Documents G Drive: Collaborative Notes / Lists / Drawings / Reports

Have never joined any beta program for any app whatsoever. Much less Evernote which stores important notes that I wouldn't trust a beta version with.

It looks like the latest update fixed it for me. I'm not sure what they updated cos the version remains unchanged at 8.9, but i most certainly received a new update on Google Play. Thanks for the fix!

Samsung S8, Android 9, Evernote version 8.9 Someone should really work on this ASAP because it's a show-stopper glitch. I'm literally unable to see any of my notes with a black on black font/background. As far as the current state goes, Evernote on Android is completely dead to me, and impossible to use.

This feature shouldn't really be hidden under the title "Set up passcode lock"... You should rename it as "Additional Security"

Use the right tools for the right purpose. If you're on Android, use CamScanner. Or Adobe Scan.

I have the same problem too. Also a Galaxy S8 that recently underwent a Android Pie upgrade. Me thinks Evernote wasn't ready to handle Android P on older phone models. In the meantime I'm resorting to using alternative note-taking apps.