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Shawnda Mangicavallo
Hello. I am not sure if this has been addressed in the Android version, but lately I have been unable to open some notes. I click on them and I get a loading icon that doesn't go away. It doesn't happen to all notes, and it is not related to the size of the note, as far as I am aware. See screenshot.
Also, has the new update broken the app? The earlier versions of the 10.0+ version seemed faster than what I am currently experiencing for some reason. I have a very hard time navigating back and forth between notes due to the immense lag.
I cannot make new notes. Now I have 47 notes, but I got an error trying to make a new note that my limit is 50 notes. I have free plan. According system limits information free plan has 100,000 free notes. Why I have limit for only 50 (even less)?
Hi - We're mainly other users here, so no influence or information over increasing limits or ways around them. Evernote haven't publilshed any information that we know of. If you find the service useful, then obviously subscribing would be the way to go. Whatever you plan on doing, entrusting notes to a limited free service does not seem a good idea. As it is a free service I don't think they are bound by the online details - they can alter the terms as they wish.
But I don't see in their rules that free account have only 50 notes. They said free account have 100,000 notes. My wife has free account registered the same day as mine and there is no 50 notes limit.
The Free users affected don't loose anything - they still can sign in to their existing notes, they just experience new limits to an already limited plan. That's something anybody who decides to use a service without paying needs to put into the decision - Free means no security about a Free plans conditions.
IMHO Evernote analysed the situation and saw that this is a potential disaster waiting to happen. They have to do something responsible about folks who have thousands of notes already on the system, and delete dormant accounts (which every IT specialist does regularly) which must number in the tens of thousands. It's not a technical debt, it's a technical crisis. OK - one thing they can do without ruffling too many feathers is to limit who comes on board from now on. At least they can build a firebreak and contain the worst of the damage.
Cutting off free users abruptly from their notes is bound to lead to push-back and mistrust by most of those directly affected and by at least some that aren't directly affected. It's a calculated tradeoff that I think Bending Spoons was willing to make.
I have about 10 notebooks, and about 21 notes, and now I can't create either because my notebooks are over their limit. It's nice that I haven't lost anything, but being suddenly unable to make additional notes is frustrating.
In your case, I wonder if you can use tags instead of notebooks. Select all the notes in each notebook and then add a tag with the same name as the notebook. Then move all the notes to one notebook and delete the remaining 10 notebooks. That will buy you a little bit of time to better figure out where you go from here.
Agreed. The published pricing policy is absolutely misleading. Out of the whole bunch of free note-taking apps available. incl. Joplin, OneNote etc., only Evernote chose to block users from creating new notes and simultaneously notify them of the policy change, which is usually regarded as non-sense akin betrayal.
That's what I'm working on right now, actually. Just tagging notes and beginning to reorganize things as I don't really have much of a choice. I looked at a few different note options. Obsidian seems to be a good choice, but local only. I tried a few others, but thus far nothing I've found has the Notebook>Notes functionality.
I am also the same victim. I found a temporary solution.
Please return the Evernote web version to an older version on your profile screen.
You will then be able to add notes and move notes. However, since the number of notes does not match, it is safer to edit using the app.
Anyway, as it happens after struggling to export all (700) of my notes to move to Joplin which kept inexplicably failing randomly at different counts, a 50% offer popped up. Starting to worry I would lose older historic posts I folded and paid for a year and magically the exports worked flawlessly.
Despite having now paid I'm intending to stick with Joplin. So far the only feature I'm missing is the favourites section as I had a dozen or so regularly used notes but I'll work round that with tags.
You missed the part where I said that Evernote "fail[ed] to provide an inexpensive plan with basic functionality". I don't, in fact, "want it all". I don't want all of the unnecessary features that they've tacked on in the past decade to justify the ridiculous price of their Personal plan - I just want a simple rich text editor with decent search and sync functionality that works smoothly on mobile & desktop devices and the web. "Free" with 50 notes and 1 notebook is useless for anything other than a trial. The Personal plan at $160/year doesn't provide enough value to me, and there isn't anything in between.
Wow. Today I went to create a note and was struck by the new limits. I've been using Evernote for... I think since 2016? Very disappointed that I was given no notice about this change. I use EN primarily as a journal so my texts notes obviously don't take up a ton of memory. A very rare looooooong note of mine is only 288kb. I'm not averse to signing up for a paid version of EN, but not at the premium price. There has to be an in between service for the users who don't use all the bells and whistles.
If the annual premium plan is $77.99, they need another level that's something like $39.99 for those literally only needing unlimited texts notes and not using any other features. This is very disappointing, especially the lack of notification. Sigh. I'll use OneNote for now in hopes EN presents another option. Sad to leave abruptly on Thanksgiving! Now I have to go elsewhere to journal about family stress lol. Thanks EN!
Also is the 50 note limit in total or monthly? If it's monthly and had I known, I'd definitely be able to fit my note usage in under 50 notes. As long as I have one free note a day to journal, I'm fine!
Anyway, I definitely hope they offer a lower price for those using few notes with little memory, or a one free note every day plan, but for now I'll use OneNote. Will definitely check back in every month to see if they change their offerings!
This is ridiculous. Going down from 100.000 (which I agree was excessive for a free version) to 50. I mean, no comments needed.
I've used evernote for years and could consider paying if it was more affordable. Sorry, but I'll move everything out as the company is not acting in a responsible way.
i don't use evernote much and only have 1 notebook and 12 notes. even though i was not even half of the free max limit, i consolidated. even though it says 12 notes, it won't let me create new notes. no biggie.. wasn't really a major thing for me with little use i have for it. but it is misrepresenting that they allow you to continue using it in free mode with 1 notebook and max of 50 notes but each click to create a new note, prompts me to sign up with varied pricing too.
I have been a user of the Evernote system for 15 years and now they are limiting the creation of 50 notes on the Free plan.
From the beginning the propaganda was: UNLIMITED NOTES FOREVER, and now, that I have more than 500 notes, they change the terms of service and add these limitations.
Absurd.
I'm going to change tools