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[David Planella <david.planella@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Michael Zanetti <
michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> Hi
>
> On 13.02.2015 07:22, Walter Lapchynski wrote:
> > Touch noobie here. It seems that one should provide feedback by
> > filing bugs manually in the appropriate app project? I note
> > `ubuntu-bug` is on the device, but I'm not sure that's actually
> > intentional XD
> >
> > FWIW: * if you have an Evernote account, it's peachy keen * if you
> > don't have an Evernote account and have never had one, you're asked
> > to add one, which works great (just like the old version) * if you
> > don't add an account at the initial prompt, and try to add it
> > later, sometimes there's just a whitescreen display, though it
> > often has a similar problem (spinning incessantly) if trying to
> > add the account through Settings
>
> I've noticed something yesterday: If I have the app installed from the
> store, everything works fine in regard to account setup. However, if I
> overwrite the app, installing a package manually, the online accounts
> part seem to break.
>
> @David, do you have an idea what might be causing that?
>

I've no idea, I hadn't noticed that that was the trigger. It'd be good if
this was the source of the issue, which would mean it would affect only
testers but not users that install from the store.

I've mentioned it to David Barth, who is looking into it.


>
> > * if you don't have an Evernote account but HAVE had one before,
> > it doesn't ask you add one when you first open the app (I know,
> > edge case)
>
> Intersting. Thanks for letting me know.
>
> > * there's no option to move local to Evernote and vice versa, i.e.
> > there really is no "offline mode," which may be intentional, but
> > that'd be a good place to improve.
>
> You're right, there is no option to convert a local account to an
> online one (or vice versa) yet. However, there is real offline mode.
> If you set up your Evernote account and then turn off wifi, you'll see
> that you can still use everything from the app. It will sync changes
> back to Evernote when you go online again.
>
> Thanks a lot for the feedback. Will try to add a feature for
> converting (or maybe merging accounts). Not sure yet.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 1:58 AM, Michael Zanetti
> > <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: One more note to hopefully
> > make the app more attractive to people:
> >
> > It also supports proper reminders now, meaning, if you tag a note
> > with a reminder, the phone will actually ring when it's due and
> > display the note in the datetime-indicator. This also works
> > completely offline! You do not require an Evernote account to test
> > this. Although we are obviously very interested in feedback for the
> > sync-with-Evernote bits, feedback for all aspects of the app are
> > welcome.
> >
> > Enjoy, Michael
> >
> > On 12.02.2015 10:45, Alan Pope wrote:
> >>>> Hi all,
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks to everyone for their efforts testing other apps like
> >>>> Music and Dekko, the feedback has most useful! We have
> >>>> another app for you people to beat up!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> http://people.canonical.com/~alan/reminders/com.ubuntu.reminders_0.5.337_armhf.click
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> The Reminders note taking application developers have added some
> >>>> significant changes and we wanted to get wider community
> >>>> testing before uploading to the store. The most notable
> >>>> feature is 'offline mode'. That means Reminders can be used
> >>>> fully offline, with no need for a 3rd party online account of
> >>>> any kind.
> >>>>
> >>>> Optionally users can later add an Evernote account and sync
> >>>> their notes, notebooks and reminders online.
> >>>>
> >>>> If you'd like to test this new functionality, please see the
> >>>> readme linked below. We're keen to have wide testing under
> >>>> various circumstances including online, offline, wifi and/or
> >>>> 3G access, and with varying types of notes.
> >>>>
> >>>> http://people.canonical.com/~alan/reminders/readme.txt
> >>>>
> >>>> As always, discussion is fine here, and bug reports (and
> >>>> patches) are also most welcome!
> >>>>
> >>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/reminders-app
> >>>> https://code.launchpad.net/reminders-app
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks!
> >>>>
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