Further down, another note, the entire contents of the text, broken up by some HTML tags. It’s a text note I left a few evenings ago, a stray thought about sex, if I’m being honest. Thousands of lines of gibberish, dates and upload counts and INFO: Sending search changes.Īnd then I come across something more legible. Still, out of habitual paranoia, I skim through the log before sending. Just the meta data, like note titles (why Evernote doesn’t believe note titles are potentially sensitive is beyond me, but in my case they’re usually blank anyway). I ask the support person to verify that he will not have access to my data. I try not to filter myself because that’s how creativity dies. With email, there’s always the possibility that the guy on the other end will forward the message along, so I tend to behave accordingly.
EVERNOTE MAC SLOW ARCHIVE
This is a file generated by each Evernote application that records the myriad housekeeping events going on behind the scenes - “Sending preference changes…”, and so on.įor most services this log wouldn’t make me bat an eye, but in many ways my Evernote archive is more sensitive than my Gmail account. Unfortunately, in the process of trying to learn what happened to my audio file, I discover another flaw in Evernote’s system.Īs an apparently standard part of Evernote’s support process, it requests that users send over an Activity Log. The process is slow and bumbling, but I’d like to think this has more to do with Evernote’s overly-structured ticket system than the people working there. Teeth grinding, I contact Evernote support. I head to the web app, which - thankfully - shows the note intact, with its attachment as an 8.7 megabyte. I let the phone sit for a while to sync, just in case. It’s a blank file.Īlarmed, I tap record again, make another note. I decide to give it another listen with more discerning ears, self-loathing eagerly waiting in the wings.Īnd - nothing. Some of the chord changes are sheer luck, no idea what I did but they sounded good the first time. With any luck I reach a fugue state, vaguely listening for my fingers to do something interesting sometimes instinct steers me toward the green elephant’s ‘record’ button and I play for a while.Īnd so I find myself on December 5, when a meandering session results in an 18 minute Evernote audio recording on my iPhone labeled “not bad halfway through” - high praise, for me. It’s terrifying because I stink, so I trick myself, diddling around without actually intending to record anything.
Most issues are benign enough, but the apps are so laden with quirks that I’ve long held a deep-seated fear that perhaps some of my data has not been saved, that through a syncing error, an accidental overwrite - some of these ideas have been forgotten.Īs of last month, I am all but sure of it. Browser extensions crash, text cursors leap haphazardly across the screen - my copy of Evernote’s image editor Skitch silently failed to sync for months because I hadn’t updated to the new version.
Evernote’s applications are glitchy to the extreme they often feel as if they’re held together by the engineering equivalent of duct tape. Maybe not.īecause I use it so often, I am unusually familiar with the service’s warts.
Just now I catch a glimpse of one, without thinking I am talking into my phone like a Star Trek Communicator, telling myself that maybe I should title this post Leaky Sync. Every day ideas flit through my head, ideas for essays, for characters, for jokes. More than any other technology, Evernote is part of me, having evolved from habit to instinct over several years and nearly seven thousand notes.
To say this post pains me would be an understatement.
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