User3326

Long time Evernote user here, since 2012. Up until about the last year I was perfectly satisfied with it. In the last year or so I am constantly getting note conflicts, and I have lost patience with it. I mostly use it to keep a rolling todo list up to date which becomes a highlights list as I check things off. If I don’t get something done, I move it to a later date. I also use this same file to store links to useful things or brief notes of things I want to look into. And I use another file as a shopping list organized by aisle in the store where I shop. As things come up that I need I add a checklist box to the beginning of the item so that it stands out from the rest of the list. After shopping I remove the checklist boxes. So I guess I'm “guilty” of drive-by note-taking such as WilliamL describes and for the same GTD purpose of getting things out of my head and down on “paper.” I want to get into the note, write my stuff, have it sync and get out. Evernote is no longer working for me for this purpose. The duplicate notes were annoying but now I’ve experience many instances where the data never gets saved at all. That is unacceptable. Also, going through several menu screens to force a sync on Android and still have to wait is unacceptable. So as of today I’m going to start to use google docs for my drive-by note-taking. I’ll continue to use Evernote for less active info that I want to keep. Syncing between devices is also slow or buggy but I could live with that. But I can’t live with an app not saving my data on the same device. Very disappointed to have to use two apps. I look forward to the day when Evernote fixes this problem.