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[Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi Walter,

On 13.02.2015 19:29, Walter Lapchynski wrote:
> Thanks, everyone, for the replies and the patience with my
> noobishness :)
> 
> Since you all have been so kind to reply to these issues should I 
> still bother filing the bugs? Just trying to be clear about the 
> preferred process.

yes please, filing bugs makes it easier to for us to keep track of
issues, and also allows you to track progress and get notified when we
fix the issue. While I will look at issues mentioned in mails from
this thread, filing bugs in Launchpad is still the preferred method.

Cheers,
Michael

> 
> Thanks!11
> 
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 3:46 AM, David Planella 
> <david.planella@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Michael Zanetti 
>> <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
> 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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