Local Loop

If you remain logged into Evernote’s web interface for long enough, eventually you’ll encounter the situation where attempting to save a note after making some changes will result in a little HTML pop-up dialog telling you that you need to “reload evernote” to access a “new version”.

If you click the only button on this dialog, you’re then prompted with a Javascript browser dialog telling you if you leave the page, your changes will be discarded (this is true), but if you remain on the page you can save your changes (this is a lie – because doing this leads you back to the first dialog).

Most peculiar is that as you click the button on the second dialog to leave the page (and thus discard your changes), there is a little HTML notification on the bottom-right corner of the page that briefly indicates “saving changes”, just before the UI reloads and reveals you how Evernote happily threw away the changes to your note…

Hmmm…