Mark Silberbauer 1 Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 I use saved searches to show notes from a specific notebook containing a specific tag. When I add an EN widget, and set it to show a saved search, it shows the correct notes initially, but starts showing incorrect notes after a while - notes that do not match the tag specified as part of the saved search. Both the old "grid" style widget and the new "list" widget suffer from this issue. I used to get around this by pressing the arrow buttons on the old grid style widget which would force a "refresh" and the widget would display the correct notes again. However, I learnt today that the old grid widget is going to be replaced by the new list widget which has no arrow buttons and thus can't be refreshed. This makes the widget pretty much unusable to me. This happens on both my LG Nexus 4 and my Galaxy Note 8.0. Link to comment
StuartG 16 Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 Did you get anywhere with this? I've got the exact same problem and it's very frustrating. Adding shortcuts of saved searches to the homescreen suffers from similar issues too - works once then just doesn't do anything. Closing Evernote from the task manager seems to reset both issues temporarily, but shouldn't need to do this. Link to comment
Mark Silberbauer 1 Posted August 26, 2013 Author Share Posted August 26, 2013 Did you get anywhere with this? I've got the exact same problem and it's very frustrating. Unfortunately, no. Sometimes the widgets "refresh" themselves correctly and sometimes they don't; it's hit and miss. I've noticed that there are times when the widget shows the incorrect notes after I create a new note but then refreshes itself after about 30 seconds. It's way too buggy at the moment for me to trust.. Link to comment
Level 5* jefito 5,589 Posted August 26, 2013 Level 5* Share Posted August 26, 2013 Did either of you open a support request for this issue? Link to comment
Mark Silberbauer 1 Posted August 26, 2013 Author Share Posted August 26, 2013 Yeah, I did: ticket 94559. They've filed it as a bug that will hopefully one day get fixed. Link to comment
Level 5* jefito 5,589 Posted August 26, 2013 Level 5* Share Posted August 26, 2013 Yeah, I did: ticket 94559. They've filed it as a bug that will hopefully one day get fixed.Great. Thanks. Hopefully sooner rather than later. Link to comment
LifeOfBrian 2 Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 This problem has not been solved as of Dec. 5th '13 (widget v5.2.1; EN 5.5.3; MotoX running KitKat). Maybe someday... Link to comment
LifeOfBrian 2 Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Update: interestingly, the "Evernote Widget Large" widget stays updated on saved searches while the "Evernote List" widget (the one i was referring to in my last post) fails to stay updated. I prefer the list format, but I'll go with tiles for now. Perhaps a comparison between code of those two widgets could quickly shed light on this bug. Link to comment
Greybone 0 Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Still a problem with EN 5.7 on Samsung Galaxy S4. I use two widgets displaying 2 different saved searches, and it's completely random what shows up in each widget - sometimes it will display correctly if I refresh by selecting the same search again. This will usually not last for long. This is a continued huge annoyance and prevents me from using GTD efficiently as I cannot trust the widget to provide correct action lists.Please prioritize this. Link to comment
LifeOfBrian 2 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Yup, still broken for me too. Please fix! Link to comment
LifeOfBrian 2 Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 I filed a new support ticket for it (#546509). I doubt older forum threads are followed closely by the EN Dev team. This is an ongoing bug though, so I'm glad they leave threads open so we can compare notes. Evernote is great, and a fix for this issue would significantly improve Evernote on Android. Link to comment
John Freeman 0 Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 One year anniversary of this thread, good heavens. Problem still exists. No input from devs. I'm guessing it's just ignored. Link to comment
LifeOfBrian 2 Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 I have a workaround that has been moderately successful. Saved searches still get messed up in the widget, but I have had a couple weeks of perfect list widget performance when I created a designated notebook for it. I use (or try to) TSW, where your tasks are tracked according to tags (1-now, 2-next, 3-soon, etc). I made a notebook called 1-now, and that reliably displays on my home screen even if I make new notes (which would mess up the saved searches). Maybe this can help someone. Good luck! Link to comment
SebR 146 Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 I use 2 widgets with saved searches too (for GTD but not TSW) and everything seems OK. Maybe it's a sync frequency problem. Link to comment
John Freeman 0 Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 I switched to Todoist and doubt I'll look back. Todoist makes everything GTD so much easier and smoother. One click to mark something done, instead of dragging to the "Done" notebook, or several clicks on a device that doesn't have drag and drop. Creating a new task by default goes to the Inbox, and I can even add new tasks by voice with Google Now (or Siri). Clean, minimal interface built specifically for GTD. The Android widget works, and it's resizable. First-party email client plugins (Outlook, Thunderbird, Gmail). Everything just feels streamlined. I signed up for premium after just 10 minutes. I have been using it a few days and I'm in love. It's so much easier now. With Evernote, I got bored of the tedium and eventually abandoned TSW. With Todoist, most of GTD is automated for me. I will continue using Evernote as a journal of articles I read, but Todoist is where I'll be getting things done. Link to comment
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