Looks like you're right. https://evernote.com/contact/support/kb/#!/article/23258452

I understand being upset that they took a feature away from the free plan. But at the end of the day, if you can afford it Premium is a great investment. I subscribed last fall and I haven't looked back.

I've struggled with v10. It's just horribly slow for me. I have so much and so many different workflows that feed into Evernote with automations, email, IFTTT, import folders, etc. No one alternative can do it all, or well enough the way I use Evernote as it exists today. I have to give up too much to go to anything else. I've gone back and forth between V10, Evernote Legacy, Nimbus Note, Joplin, NoteJoy, Alternote, OneNote, Obsidian, and just plain old flat files in OneDrive. I mainly use Evernote as a digital filing cabinet, so I don't care about the flashy note taking and formatting or editing. I just want somewhere to store my stuff where I can get to it from anywhere, quickly.

I've been using Raindrop.io much more for just saving stuff I find on the web. It works very well for that - to save stuff to read later, and keep permanent copies of pages that may change or go offline down the road. Raindrop keeps permanent copies and it's so nice to have. I used to do this in Evernote, but it's slowness makes it very difficult for me to use it. Raindrop is wickedly fast. Being able to upload PDF files and pictures to my account helps take some load off of my dependency for Evernote, but I still need it for my online receipts and bills and other miscellaneous notes and calendar integration for bill reminders and stuff like that.

I have until July before my premium subscription expires, so I hope that either Evernote gets their collective shit together before then, or someone steps up to be a true contender as a complete replacement for my use cases.

I've also been experiencing a lot of issues recently and began transitioning to Apple Notes. I'm also looking into the potential of Workflowy (a simple bullet point note-taking software which I love using).

I have 1 Zap for Evernote that IFTTT can't do, which is to create a new note every day with the current day/date as the title. Here's the link to it if you want to use it: https://zapier.com/zapbook/schedule/evernote/17725/schedule-every-day-to-evernote-create-note/

I have a notebook called "Timeline" that this saves the notes to, which I use as literally a timeline of things that go on in my life. In that notebook I also have IFTTT scripts that send my Foursquare check-ins to Evernote, a weather map of my area when it rains or snows, and I think a few other things I can't think of off the top of my head. My daily note with Zapier is essentially like a journal entry. I've gotten in the habit of making a note of as much stuff that happens as I can, just to help me remember what's gone on and when. More of a log of events, rather than like a diary I put my thoughts in or anything like that. It's come in handy several times being able to refer back to stuff that I wrote about in detail at the time but was later only able to recall a vague idea.

Set up the two factor authentication, that will be enough, the information (in any service) may be encrypted, but if they have your password is as weak as not having any encryption, it's better to have a 2FA on and working.

I once receive a code of my 2FA of someone trying to enter into my account (not only in Evernote but other services) thanks to the 2FA I could avoid that and change passwords since that also warns you that someone has your password.

BTW: Evernote information it's encrypted on transportation and while in the data center, if someone else has your password that encryption is useless.

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https://evernote.com/security

The new Evernote on Android is hot garbage if I have to be honest with you my man. It's slow and buggy.

If you're really set on wanting to try it out, it's available on APKMirror here.
You're gonna have to install it using the APKMirror app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apkmirror.helper.prod

"you should never depend entirely on any application/service not to lose or corrupt your data"

Upvote. This is really important. With the quantity of devices, hardware, OS and their versions, software updates, customizations, extensive functionality, and connection states - it is impossible to expect anything to be 100% bug free and perfect.

If someone tells you different, they're lying or ignorant. I work in software QA. It's my job to break software.

If something is important, always have backups. The great thing about digital life is being redundant is easy.

Lots of programs provide automatic backups, and let you dictate how many copies to keep. There are even programs that will backup your entire machine. You can even have automatic backups of your backups between online storage.

https://ifttt.com/applets/154308p-backup-new-files-placed-in-a-specific-dropbox-folder-to-google-drive

Hiya,

I work on Mohiomap and we do Evernote visualisation and navigation. It's a webapp and it's free. We don't do advanced data analytics yet, but we are working on it, and these should be released within next month or so. A preview of what's to come: http://i.imgur.com/Ls28Vuc.png

Let me know if you have any questions.

I use FileThis with Evernote to keep track of all my statements & bills. It costs a little ($2/mo if I remember correctly?) but for me it's totally worth it -- I've gone paperless with all my statements, and everything is at the ready if I need to refer to it. Helps me eliminate a ton of paperwork and filing.

Bonus points: trees saved!

It’s not possible right now. It’s on a list of things they published as popular requests. The way they phrased this list suggested they were going to do it, but it could also be read as just a list of things people wanted without any commitment on their part to implement, depending on your level of cynicism: https://evernote.com/blog/whats-next-for-tasks/

Notion is both different and has more features, even at its relatively young age. It's not like 2 very similar products with one or two different things.

Notion's editor is a bit more flexible that plain markdown but not as flexible as full html editing in Evernote, which is overwhelming.

For me the crucial difference is being able to nest things in a page hierarchy vs. having a collection on notes.

Notion also has features like:

• spreadsheet functionality (like airtable, google sheets etc.)
• trello-like boards
• calendars

There's a lot of functionality. You can see examples of different use-cases in https://www.notion.so/Guides-FAQs-e040febf70a94950b8620e6f00005004 (Tutorials section).

Spreading thin hot air with more or less words uttered seems to be a major achievement when I read through this thread.

I think we simply listen to what the Evernote CEO wrote in his blog post in January:

https://evernote.com/blog/de/ceo-update-january-2022/

When I take him by his word, I am most exited about a tackling of the syncing process. I do think there may be a deeply rooted problem there. And I hope they found the root cause and will eliminate it.

Check https://haveibeenpwned.com/. It's possible that your email or password associated to Evernote was compromised and some bots out there are using it to mine data or something, essentially logging you out and replacing a device. I'd go as far as turning on two factor authentication after changing your password.

Goodnotes 4 is amazing (/r/goodnotes). If you're on a budget, and the Apple Pencil is pricy, I would recommend the Adonit Pixel. Then, to get your PDF into Evernote automatically, you can use this IFTTT recipe. However, you need a premium account as it uses the Evernote email.

Set up the recipe like this: Make a folder called 'GoodNotes to Evernote'. When you want to add a note to Evernote, export it to this folder and it is automatically added to Evernote.

Hope this helped! :D

I'm not sure what you mean by "save", but I created an ifttt recipe for you which takes every Facebook link-post and saves it to Evernote.

https://ifttt.com/recipes/264945-if-link-posted-to-facebook-create-an-evernote-of-it

Alright, makes some sense. There are some external programs that prevent opening another program without a password. Perhaps that's good enough for you, though it doesn't fit the usecase of leaving Evernote running. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-password-protect-any-windows-program/

Though I feel that if your GF makes a habit of snooping around in your Evernote account, that's kind of... bad :) But sure, I understand your meaning.

Notion is also an Electron app like the new Evernote v.10 is, so it's gonna be more laggy than old Evernote Legacy no matter what, but it's still better implemented than Evernote. If you want a snappy app, look for native note apps rather than Electron-based ones, although UpNote and Notesnook are both Electron but both are snappy the last time I tried it. Are you Win or Mac? I'm more familiar with Mac apps.

A lot of this may come down to what system you are more comfortable with. Two other commenters (elint & DTLow) both highlighted the power of a TAG based system. I am a "lots of notebooks" guy.

For me, it came down to whether or not I store data that usually has multiple uses/labels/etc. -- tagging is ideal for this (for example, you could have one bookmark tagged "Psychology, ForClass, send2mom, and Thesis." This is a decent, fictional, mixture of action based, reference based, and project based filing.

Very few of my notes are like that. I took a photo of that receipt for my Taxes. I clipped that web page for Project A. I clipped that other web page for Project B. This PDF is just for reference later, etc. That pushed me toward notebooks. I have one for each current project, several topic based notebooks, some "areas of Life" notebooks (my house, my family, my animals, etc.)

Tiago Forte's PARA method has been pretty eye opening for me on all of this. Unfortunately, most of the "good stuff" is paywalled or part of an online course. My key takeaway from the whole thing, however, was that a note doesn't HAVE to stay in one notebook forever. It is OK to pull several notes & bookmarks together for a project and then refile them to other places later.

This is where I use tags -- to track what a note has BEEN, not what it might be. So, when a project ends, all the notes from the project get tagged with the project name (used to be the notebook name), and refiled -- either in a reference notebook or in a big archive notebook.

If you are interested in the Tiago Forte stuff, here are two places to start:

https://evernote.com/blog/designing-creativity-workflows/
https://evernote.com/blog/tiago-fortes-approach-to-productivity/

TBH none outside of the Notepad. They all have privacy issues. As much as Evernote says that they are private, engineers can still access content.

In the end it is about a trade off. By you giving them your info, are you getting a good ROI using their product?

There was a documentary titled "Your terms may apply" that speaks on privacy in the digital age.

Here is [https://evernote.com/privacy/policy](Evernote's Privacy Policy)

> is there a way to use Evernote without any of its cloud functionality?

Sure you can locally stored notebooks but the main point of EN is to have access to your info where ever you are and on all of your devices.

I understand your privacy issues but EN has been up front about their security and such.

From EN [link] >We consider your data private and do not permit another user to access it unless you explicitly share it.

Yes, just had an email (ironically) from them confirming it, here's more info: Support article

This is probably my most used feature so it seems I'll have no choice but to upgrade. I don't really see what value I will get in the other Premium features, but not being able to email notes will really affect my workflow.

thank you, just added it

they are evernote 'points' which can be applied towards several things, including extending a premium subscription, for more info, check out:

https://evernote.com/points/

I didn't even know evernote had this points system

Yup. It is a fantastic method of collecting and organizing.

You might also look at the auto-sweep feature that automatically creates a note each time you add a file into a folder.

• Creating Auto-Import folders in Evernote for Windows

I believe this was announced publicly at the EC4 conference today. You just got there a day early and it was already live. It's officially documented on Evernote's help center.

That's a possibility, but I find it slow and awkward. A few months ago, Evernote introduced "Table of Contents notes." There's a how-to here.

I'm not leaving Evernote but I have picked up Notion, and you may like it as an Evernote replacement.

https://www.notion.so/

Don't expect to be able to import from your Evernote account however.. This did irk me but the advantages largely outweighed the disadvantages.

Yes, it was mentioned in the announcements for 2022:
https://evernote.com/blog/ceo-update-january-2022/

But I understand it will come to iOS AND Android, so currently there are no system widgets on Android as well.

I use Pocket as a bookmarking and 'read it for later' tool. This applet saves the items I add into a 'Pocket Archive' notebook: https://ifttt.com/applets/42047865d-sync-pocket-to-evernote

It saves the title, a short description and even the Pocket tags to Evernote, as well as appends the tags 'IFTTT' and 'Pocket'. Neat for searching, etc. Added benefit: I use Pocket instead of 'Watching Later' on YT (b/c 'watching later' piled up, died and began to rot in the past), so I can see what I've been up to in the past.

I also used to run an applet for GMail and EN to forward receipts and shipping notices into a seperate notebook, but nowadays I just use Forwarding Filters in GMail to run them automatically to my EN mail. Again, neat for searching and archiving.

What you're describing is exactly what I went through with Evernote. I realized (probably too late) that I had a MASS of information, most of it totally unstructured and relatively useless...I wish I had an easy answer for the "migration" issue, but I haven't figured that part out. What I can tell you is that I switched my ongoing content to an app called "Transpose" that I just found recently. This platform safeguards me from the Evernote problem because Transpose automatically structures, labels, organizes my data for me. I can export anything into a simple file if I need to. I can share links to my content through the platform, collaborate with others within the platform, etc. I can visualize any of my data in a number of ways with the click of a button (kanban, calendar, spreadsheet, etc.), send electronic signatures, etc...so basically, I'm able to do a lot more than I could on Evernote, AND I have the peace of mind that all of my entries are being stored in a way that will be useful later on. I can control/design how info is stored by creating templates that fit my needs. There's also a great public community of templates that you can simply "copy" and save to your own list of templates. I'd highly recommend it. Related: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/transpose-secret-managing-digital-information/

I never used Evernote Food but I recently started using Trello for shared recipes.

My favorite part is being able to take notes on recipe modifications and results. I like having that on-going history.

Edit: I don't know why I was downvoted for providing a suggested app like op asked. Here's an example if what I'm talking about from their website

As I mentioned on several other conversation threads here over the past few months, I would recommend Workflowy as an alternative note-taking/project-managing software to Evernote and other more complicated larger systems out there.

It is a simple, but very efficient platform operating with a bullet point structure, works seamlessly on both Android and Apple devices and it’s fast loading. If your mind likes to compartmentalise notes digitally this way, this might make your life easier. It takes some time and adjusting to and transition from Evernote (which I loved but experiencing the same tiring issues like many of us complain about here daily). At this stage in my life and work, speed of access across all devices, faultless syncing and efficiency wins for me. Workflowy ticks these boxes.

I hope this helps.

I would like to recommend to you Workflowy as an alternative note-taking/project-managing software to Evernote and other more complication larger systems out there. It is a simple, but very efficient platform operating with a bullet point structure, work on both android, PC and Apple seamlessly and it’s fast loading. If your mind likes to compartmentalise notes digitally this way, this might make your life easier. It takes some time and adjusting to transition from Evernote (which I love but experiencing the same issues like many of us complain about daily). At this stage in my life and work, speed of access across all devices, faultless syncing and efficiency wins for me. Workflowy ticks these boxes.

https://ifttt.com/recipes/125883-archive-your-saved-reddit-posts-as-individual-evernote-notes

I assume you know how to work with IFTTT, but just as a sidenote, you can edit which tags to save the post with, and to which notebook.

I don't store sensitive material with Raindrop.io. Anything else is fair game. I can't store literally anything - they only allow pictures, videos, PDFs, and Office documents. The non-sensitive stuff that I don't keep encrypted in my cloud storage goes out to Raindrop. I have a bunch of integrations with it via IFTTT to save stuff from the web, Inoreader, Reddit, Pocket, and several other sites/services. I usually start with everything in my "Inbox" collection in Raindrop, and if I want to keep it, I'll tag it and move to a collection. I have an IFTTT automation that will add a new entry from Raindrop if I tag it as "from:amazon" and "wishlist", and it will append to a note in Evernote that I use as my "Amazon shopping list" for the next time I buy stuff from there.

You might be able to use cloudHQ to do this without downloading the originals pictures locally first.

But, I would use Google Photos rather than Evernote to store pictures. It seems Evernote would be clunky to manage pictures it, but ultimately your call.

Have you checked Quiver? It's only for Mac (soon for iOS). I'm using it for a while, it has tons of very nice features. Give it a try! Update, I read your comment now, if you are using Linux and you only want your notes, then you might be able to use Geeknote and export your note in HTML or something.

Possibly Notebooks: http://www.notebooksapp.com/

Also look at Alternote: alternoteapp.com/

There's a large amount of alternatives available. What might work best is using an Office suite with a template as well.

A large number of alternatives: http://alternativeto.net/software/evernote/?platform=mac

I was in a similar situation a week ago. I've tried out a ton of GTD/Task management software (Todoist, Remember the Milk, Omnifocus, Evernote, etc) and by far the best tool I've come across was Nirvana. However, not only has there not been much development on the app for a while, but as you've said it isn't the most secure because it stores everything in the cloud.

That's when I found (as far as I know) the only "privacy-centered" GTD software out there: Everdo. Everdo is basically a carbon copy of Nirvana, but I've been pretty happy with it.

I use PDF Creator to print documents to individual png or jpeg files, the same way you'd use adobe acrobat to print a Word document or image to pdf. There're a few apps out there that do that if you can't get on with that one. Search for "print to jpeg" or "print to png"

Nb. Evernote doesn't recognise TIFF files with multiple "pages" as images so you'll have to same problem as pdf if you use the built-in windows print-to-tiff feature, you need an app that prints out a separate image for each page of the pdf.

They actually collaborated on an official integration process. It's very feature rich, so I'm giving you the URL to the overview below.

Using EN as my task manner would be too cumbersome. I have memory problems, so my RTM is filled with repeating tasks like "clean the cat litter". Also, I integrated RTM with SIRI so I can add tasks on the fly "remind me to do this on that date".

The integration is triggered when I add a Reminder date to a note within Evernote. Within moments, an RTM task appears in my RTM Inbox with the note name, Reminder date/time, and Evernote icon. Changes to name and date sync between the 2 apps. Any comments I add to RTM are not added to the EN note.

RTM is unique in a couple ways that are really important to me. 1) just like EN, It has an SQL like query language for search. Example:

source:Evernote AND (due before: tomorrow OR (priority:1 OR priority:2))

and 2) it has a repeat option of AFTER. I have my "clean the cat litter" set to repeat AFTER 3 days because I usually remember to do it more often. There are a bunch of household tasks that work great with AFTER: replace furnace filters after 6 weeks, replace security camera batteries after 1 year, flush the water heater after 3 years, etc. I just complete the current task and it figures out the new due date.

https://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/evernote/

Yep, they definitely lost their way for a bit and hopefully getting that editor fixed is the hurdle that allows them to roll out new stuff. Wondering when mobile will actually work smooth though.. I can’t remember a time when their iOS apps worked reliably with out freezing, refreshing etc etc. I play around with other apps and Notion is indeed cool, but their iOS app also isn’t good and is only online. For actually using notes to generate new content https://roamresearch.com recently blew my mind, but it’s online only so I can’t fully use it for many things. Notion, Coda, Roam etc, these are surpassing EN in various ways. I’d settle for stability of EN on mobile, that’d get me by for a year until the dust settles, EN doesn’t even have that advantage anymore.

I think it's probably best to make them yourself, just because that way you can customize the notebooks/tags/whatever, or use the e-mail channel instead of the Evernote channel. The Evernote channel actually strips formatting and page breaks, so I've set my e-mail channel to my evernote e-mail address and just do it that way, because it keeps formatting etc. Are there any in particular you wanted? IFTTT is pretty self-explanitory! here's an example anyway; if you want more let me know what you'd like and how you'd like it!

Saved post to e-mail (set your address to your Evernote address): https://ifttt.com/recipes/158125-reddit-post-to-e-mail

If you don't want to do that, here's the evernote version (but it strips formatting): https://ifttt.com/recipes/158126-archive-my-saved-posts-to-evernote

Just download the new Windows version direct from https://evernote.com/download

The in-app popup for an update usually lags behind the release, which is always available via the direct download.

>all I know is that I surely won't buy the next year of premium, I'll probably stay on free version, fck it

I would double check the limitations of the free plan before doing that. I considered that option but have just paid for another year of Premium as I felt it was worth it to avoid the hassle of damaging it more than Evernote has already done.

I would struggle with the 2 device limitation, and the 25MB note limit and the search not including PDFs would be incredibly inconvenient. For me the hassle of moving from Premium to free was enough to justify paying for another year, with the hope that it will continue to improve. YMMV

https://evernote.com/compare-plans

As I read it you keep your notes but the maximum note size is 25MB and you can only upload 60MB per month as opposed to 10GB. And you lose some features such as annotating PDFs etc. From Evernote plans

“Turn ideas into action

Spaces in Evernote Business helps teams more effectively turn their ideas into action and move projects forward. As a home for all your team’s work, Spaces get everyone on the same page by effortlessly surfacing the most relevant and up-to-date information to each member of your team. And, by saving your ideas and inspiration forever, your team won’t lose work or duplicate past efforts.”

https://evernote.com/blog/spaces-evernote-business/

>Feels like these apps have been in development forever.

It's not just a feeling - they really have been. The then-new CEO announced on January 3rd, 2019, that Evernote's focus in 2019 would be a fundamental re-architecture of the entire Evernote technology stack.

So far, it's taken a lot longer than just 2019 - it's been 19 months and counting, and they still don't have a public beta of any of the apps. Hopefully we won't need to wait until 2021 to see them broadly deployed.

Here's the official way of signing up:

https://evernote.com/betaprogram

I think it's worth it if you're interested in the future direction of Evernote. The big benefit of the Preview app is that you get access to the same editor as in the web version (new highlighting options, checklists, better formatting of content pasted from the web, etc.) at the expense of a few features that currently only exist in the legacy desktop versions (e.g. presentation mode, note merging, dark mode, etc.)

A couple years ago, not long after I first signed up for Evernote actually, I stumbled across this article on their website that introduced me to the Eisenhower Matrix. In a nutshell, it's a to-do list that is broken up into quadrants, with each block delegated to a different set of tasks that are grouped together mostly by their level of importance and their due dates. I have tweaked it a little bit over time to suit me personally, but to this day it's absolutely revolutionized how I utilize my time and how I plan my work weeks. I make a new one every Sunday for the upcoming week, and usually have it open as a pop-out note on my screen throughout my day.

HERE is the article, if you think it'll help.

As a side note, I read a really good book on making to-do lists about a year ago, one that even mentions the Eisenhower Matrix, called "The To-Do List Formula", found it on Kindle. It was really short but very informative, gave me loads of little tips on how to improve my current list and how to maintain it properly, and also will introduce you to dozens of other options on how to build your own.

The premium features are described here https://evernote.com/get-started
The handwritten search in images is available for non-Premium Account and is described here https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/208314518-How-Evernote-makes-text-inside-images-searchable

What format are you saving your handwritten notes?

With a premium account you will have local copies of all your notes on each of your devices, provided you are using the app and not accessing Evernote.com through a web browser. As you make changes to notes, the changes will be synchronized with "the cloud" and then to each device.

Not exactly sure what you get with the free account these days.

Take a look at their security blog post - https://evernote.com/security

This should clarify things for the CTO too.

In short, your notes are stored in Google Cloud and encrypted with Google's server side encryption (using AES-256).

Pretty simple to tell -- if the website you go to is https://evernote.com, it's almost certainly legit. If that's not the url, then its almost certainly phishing.

Iirc Evernote asking to verify your email occasionally sounds familiar.

Moreover, MS received 35,572 requests of data (targeting 60,372 users/accounts) from Gov't and third-party entities, and rejected only 12% of those requests.

Evernote received 11 requests and rejected 2 of those requests.

Sources:

• https://www.microsoft.com/about/csr/transparencyhub/lerr/

• https://evernote.com/legal/transparency/

> I'm willing to bet you haven't researched this.

How much?

> Can anyone on Evernote actually read the notes? :/

AFAIK, no. My work with their support team confirmed they can only see what I share with them. I'm sure there are a few Employee that have the ability to access accounts, but they state in their privacy summary that it's only accessed in rare occasions.

> As a rule, Evernote employees do not monitor or view your personal information or Content stored in the Service, but we list below the limited circumstances in which our employees may need to access or review your personal information or account Content.

https://evernote.com/legal/privacy.php

Edit: typical grammar punctuation fixes

Very weird. I just looked in Firefox, Edge, and IE. All show $69.99. You're looking at https://evernote.com/pricing/, right?

edit: I wasn't signed into my account. I looked at the pricing page again after signing in and now is see $45.

Storage is "unlimited", but also only up to a point. You can technically store about 9TB of data per account, but as with uploading, it's not a target that you need to aim at.

> they sneakily put that in the terms so they can block you at any time

Are you SURE you have Premium and not Plus? This page very specifically says that uploads are unlimited for Premium, but a 1GB limit for Plus.

Unless you're uploading large media files that are outside the scope of Evernote support, I'm not sure why you'd be limited.

When I originally subscribed, the Premium account had a limit of 1GB upload per 30-day period and it was easy to see how far you are in your bandwidth consumption in the app. That apparently changed with the introduction of the "Plus" tier, so I'm not so sure anymore (and I'm in a location that doesn't allow me to connect to Evernote, so I can't test).

I think if you are alrady a premium user you win, more storage, however I didn't like that now we have a email to evernote limit of 250 per month and that according to them you cannot use their service as backup

Yes it is.

From EN Knowledge Base

>Number of notes

Free: 100,000 notes

>Premium: 100,000 notes

>Evernote Business: 500,000 notes per company account

^Edit:Spelling

Evernote Knowledge Base

>In order for your referrals to successfully earn you points, the people you invite must do both of the following: >Create a new Evernote account by clicking your unique link. >Install Evernote and log in on a computer, phone, or tablet. >Logging in on a browser does not qualify as a referral. Each referral must be on a separate device that has not been used for any other referral. >For example: if two people share a computer, you can only earn points for the first person that creates an account on that computer. >If the second person both creates an account and logs in on a mobile phone or other device, you would then earn points for that user as well.

edit: formatting

Unless you are completely new to Evernote there is nothing new here. Save yourself 11 minutes and 21 seconds.

"Hack number one is creating an inbox." Uh...not a hack. Barely even a tip since nearly every "getting started with Evernote" style post has this as the first step.

Bulk "processing" which is really just bulk editing notes. A good tip, again not a hack.

Advanced search is the third "hack". But what is shown is not really advanced, like the advanced search syntax but just selecting a notebook and a tag within that notebook and searching. Not advanced, not a hack.

Searching notes by location is next. The hack? Click on Atlas in the left sidebar. That's it.

Lastly is taking a screenshot and annotations. Useful, sure. A hack? No.

No, you can't convert it. You'll have to make a new notebook, set it to Local when you create it, and then move the notes over. See What is a local notebook?:

>Local notebooks are notebooks that only exist on the computer where they are created. By default, new notebooks created in Evernote on Windows, Mac and the Web will be synchronized across all of your Evernote computers and devices, but local notebooks are not synchronized. When you create a new notebook, you'll have the option to set the notebook type to local notebook. Note that it isn't possible to change a notebook's type after you've created it.

Check out: Using Evernote's advanced search syntax

Or: 20 Evernote Search Features You Should Be Using

You may be boned: https://evernote.com/contact/support/kb/#!/article/23989651

>If you are unable to verify your account with any of your backup methods, Evernote support team cannot recover your account or data.

Have you tried exporting your notes and importing them into a new Evernote account?

This is why apps like 1Password are so handy. I have all my backup codes printed and in my safe, but also stored as secure notes for each account in 1Password.

I think that editing in Skitch is Evernote's endgame. A quick search got me the following link. My android doesn't work exactly as detailed; it just opens the PDF in Skitch. To be fair, I like Skitch for basic markup.

https://evernote.com/contact/support/kb/#!/article/28944986

I misunderstood. It probably doesn't search inside embedded PDFs.

I'm sure they'll eventually get to it, especially if people start asking for it.

They implement new features at a rapid pace: https://www.notion.so/What-s-New-157765353f2c4705bd45474e5ba8b46c

I fvcking LOATHE EN's new-er/new-est versions. I used to be their biggest fan but obviously someone/some team wants to make the app more and more "Windows-10"-ish (or maybe MacOS-ish, idk. It was my main note app for like 10 years (years!!!) but then they started forcing us to get the new "improved" versions. If I accidentally had auto-update on I would have to uninstall the crappy new version and reinstall the version I liked via APK. Eventually, bizarrely and frustratingly, even that became impossible, for some inexplicable reason. Long-ish ago I switched to Notion, which I HIGHLY RECOMMEND, they have an "Import from Evernote" option. I still use EN (in a way that they claim shouldn't be possible, namely using the desktop site on Android), but it's like 2% of my time/note-taking activity now, in contrast to the ~100% it used to be. I plan on escaping EN entirely in the near future, but I'm away from my PC for a few weeks and I haven't 100% figured out the logistics yet. In addition to Notion I even more highly recommend Obsidian. Obsidian has changed my life, it is both awesome and beautiful. https://obsidian.md/

I think it is a too specific request for the majority of users. I recommend going through all projects. AFAIK Joplin is an open-source solution so that you can have access to their code and API. I am sure many solutions from the top twenty have API in some sort. But I do not have any experience with it.

I don't have Adobe. I have a lightweight file reader that I use for opening plain text and pdf files that I just tested to make sure it works. It is called File Viewer for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sharpened.androidfileviewer

Try checking out the Rocketbook for easy digitizing of handwritten notes.

Around Android 4.4, they added this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.inputmethod.latin

Make sure you have Google's keyboard installed (above link). As in the description, you either get an emoji icon on the bottom right corner, or can hold return to get it. Using these emoji, you can add weird dogs and snowmen to just about anywhere. You can even use them in note titles I think.

+1 for Filterize as well -- I played with it initially, didn't use it, but now and starting to integrate extensively - mostly TOC notes, but also some automated tagging.

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I also use the Cronofy google calendar plug in - although I should be able to do the same with Filterize. All my reminder events get placed on the calendar. With the cronofy plugin, I can move the event on the calendar and the reminder in the note gets updated.

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Google Docs - not sure if you really can call it "integration" as it is built in to Evernote, but I'll paste in google doc links regularly - I like the 'smart link' feature that Evernote does with it instead of just leaving an ugly long URL.

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Another thing - but not really an 'integration' - is the whole emoji thing... it was a bit frustrating to see Evernote put effort into bringing us emoji's when there is a ton of other things they could do, but since they did, I use emoji's a fair bit now too. https://emojipedia.org/ lets me find what I want, and a quick copy & paste into a note lets me create 'call outs' for attention/reference/etc., in some of my busy notes. I'll call it emoji integration for the purpose of responding here!

Check out https://haveibeenpwned.com/ You can check your email accounts in here and it searches the Internet and dark web to find out if any of them of been hacked. If they have you need to start changing passwords. Good luck!

I am currently checking out NoteJoy, which offers nested notebooks, code snippets, a web clipper and bi-directional linking. So far, I have enjoyed it and the synchronisation across devices is fast. The web clipper is not as good as Evernote's offering but it does pull the text and links with a link for the website at the top of the note.

FWIW, they are supposed to be working on sync in 2022 so things might improve on that front.

>And most importantly, over the course of 2022, we will complete our multi-year journey to a more reliable, faster, and more modern sync architecture—the very backbone of the Evernote experience.

https://evernote.com/blog/ceo-update-january-2022/

250 million on 7/21/2021 per https://evernote.com/blog/new-features-plans-for-personal-professional-productivity/

> Evernote is an independent, privately held global company headquartered in Redwood City, California, that helps more than 250 million customers around the world focus on what matters most

I would look at the side-by-side toward the bottom of this page. https://evernote.com/compare-plans

I pay for professional and I believe the only feature on that list that I use is "Use Boolean terms to refine search results". I use it a lot but I am a power user.

I use an android app called QuickDigger for this purpose. I would like to see this as a native function eventually but right now I would prefer they focus on getting the bugs out of the current android app.

I use the Adobe Scan App for Android and share the generated PDFs to the Evernote app. The quality is awesome and the PDFs already have excellent OCR embedded by the Adobe app. I do this for one year now sometimes multiple times a day.

Have you looked at how Workflowy handles tags and mirrors? It sounds like those features would work perfectly for you. https://workflowy.com/feature/mirrors/

Since around 2009 I'm still straddling Evernote and Workflowy until one or the other ups their game a bit.

I have an iPhone and still run into note conflicts/duplicate notes all the time. Let's hope u/llabusch93 is right about the post from their CEO that they will fix this by the end of the year.

It wastes an amazing amount of time for me to fix these issues, since I have external links in other places to notes in EN. So whenever there's a conflict, I have to be really careful to identify the "original" note and only delete the new one. Otherwise it breaks all those other links.

From a security and privacy standpoint, Evernote is about on par with Google Drive or Dropbox. They make no claims of zero-knowledge encryption. Only their internal vetting and access control systems are standing between your fanfic and a curious or malicious insider, data breach, etc.

That said, in 2017 Evernote migrated their services from their own data center to Google Cloud. It's fair to assume that if they were to shut down, even unceremoniously, it's fair to assume that Google would ultimately be rid of your fanfics according to these procedures.

Try to uninstall then go to https://evernote.com/download instead of updating in the app.

If that doesn't help check to make sure you don't have both the direct download (installed from the link above), and the app store version installed at the same time.

Not sure if this helps but students can get a personal account for 50% off. Link

One thing to also consider is that if upload limit is a problem, you should be able to upgrade for a month, upload what you need, and then downgrade. I’m pretty sure that’s acceptable.

I’m slowly transitioning to Todoist; the mobile app/share bit works great - fast and easy can save/file away whatever and then can add more comments/content to anything as well as sync w google cal and more

> Or let's analyze Notion. If you export data from Notion how do you import it into other apps????

Here's how:

https://www.notion.so/help/export-your-content

Another false statements from you. If Evernote cannot be promoted without endless deceit from you, what does that tell you about Evernote's quality?

imo no. I've been a paying member for more than a decade but now I've been spending a LOT of time slowly/extremely tediously taking my tens of thousands of notes out of EN and putting them in Obsidian ( https://obsidian.md/ ). I have thousands of notes in Notion too ( https://www.notion.so/ ) but I like Notion more than EN, although honestly I plan on one day taking everything out of Notion and putting it into Obsidian as well. EN has gone way downhill by forcing their users to use their newer, crappier interfaces. they needlessly tried to "fix" something that wasn't broken and in doing so made it much worse. happy to tell you more if you want to DM me.

I used to agree with you. 😉 I like https://gingkoapp.com/ so much now. It all depends on your process and everyone's process is different. Obsidian was too much for me to handle.

Yes, switch to Todoist lol.

Sadly this is my main frustration with direction Evernote has gone they have no understanding of how users interact and adding all sorts of bloat and making less lean and mean.

isn't this what you're looking for?

https://ifttt.com/applets/298479p-save-your-favorite-items-from-pocket-in-an-evernote-notebook?term=pocket%2520evernote

I looked and only noticed the missing data on my older notes, circa 2019 and earlier. I couldn't find any examples after that. This coincides with this post that indicates around Nov. 2019, "100% of your note content is now synced and served from a completely new storage system in our cloud".

It's likely there was an issue with the cloud data migration that lost the more granular hour/minute data for the note history specifically. You pointed that out with the comment that restoring pulls the creation time, so that granularity is still there. Just not for the individual history elements.

Sucks, but at least it doesn't seem to be an issue with newer notes.

Here is the announcement /u/gewappnet is referring to. Here's a bulleted summary of their goals for 2022 (completed items stricken):

• homescreen widgets for Android and iOS
• faster loading time for large notes
• better upgrade experience
• ~~better Apple M1 support~~
• finish the sync architecture upgrade
• ~~notifications for Google calendars~~
• Office 365 calendar support
• recurring tasks

You could look at Joplin. It was designed as an open-source and free Evernote alternative. It imports ENEX files as either Markdown or HTML, your choice. New notes are Markdown under the hood. It has plugins and note history. You can use a sync service you already use or you can pay for their cloud. I'd say it's more fiddly, but if you're using something like version history you won't care about that.

That’s not what I said at all, I think you need to re-read my statement.

> “If any product managers from Evernote lurk this subreddit, please fix this. I unfortunately will no longer be considering Evernote due to this.”

I didn’t threaten anything. I made a decision to not use their product based on a feature they don’t currently support, and was kind enough to explain why.

Plenty of software developers and PMs lurk Reddit for customer feedback, it’s free data.

Private Internet Access comes to mind, I have engaged with their product manager several times for feature requests, which they followed through on.

It’s 2022, companies should learn to use modern forums of community feedback to improve their products.

I’m not submitting a feature request based on a product I’ve used for all of a week. I don’t care enough about the company or product, I’ve already found a better platform.

Were Evernote to scrape this post and push this into production, I would re-evaluate coming back.

Companies spend an exorbitant amount to know why a customer may or may not use their product, I’ve just done this for free for them.

Also this post is surface web content, this post will be publicly indexed by search engines for companies to web scrape and data mine.

If a company like Evernote doesn’t know how to harvest big data, they aren’t competing with modern dev.

That’s not what I said at all, I think you need to re-read my statement.

> “If any product managers from Evernote lurk this subreddit, please fix this. I unfortunately will no longer be considering Evernote due to this.”

I didn’t threaten anything. I made a decision to not use their product based on a feature they don’t currently support, and was kind enough to explain why:

Plenty of software developers and PMs lurk Reddit for customer feedback, it’s free data.

Private Internet Access comes to mind, I have engaged with their product manager several times for feature requests, which they followed through on.

It’s 2022, companies should learn to use modern forums of community feedback to improve their products.

I’m not submitting a feature request based on a product I’ve used for all of a week. I don’t care enough about the company or product, I’ve already found a better platform.

Were Evernote to scrape this post and push this into production, I would re-evaluate coming back.

Companies spend an exorbitant amount to know why a customer may or may not use their product, I’ve just done this for free for them.

The CEO made a post 4 months ago saying it would launch into a beta (for Early Access customers) in Q1. So should be something soon hopefully.

Here is an article on how Evernote does it's thing with text recognition.

I found this, but I haven't used it, so caveat emptor. Best of luck 🍀

My suggestion is to use the software that came with the ScanSnap to drop off any scanned PDFs into a folder on your Desktop that Evernote watches and automatically imports:

https://evernote.com/blog/save-files-with-import-folders/

This audio app from Google, runs on Android, makes a good recording, and generates a transcript. You could save both the audio, and the transcript to Evernote.

This is the link to the Google Play store for it. Don't know if it is on Apple as well.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.recorder

I switched to Nimbus Note after a decade of using Evernote and getting frustrated by the backwards direction of the app and losing features that I relied on. Nimbus offered the best solution for my set of needs, and used an application UI that was close enough to Evernote to make the transition more streamlined.