I should just have looked up the specifications of ENML and it would have immediately become clear: EDAM_NOTE_CONTENT_LEN_MAX They see the character limit issue as a “misunderstanding”, which means that they are still blaming it on me, since it is me who misunderstood.

Kept asking questions that I had just answered). We do not advertise our character limit openly because the vast majority of our users never hit this limit when creating a single note.Īlthough there is apparently nothing anyone can do about this character limit, this experience seriously cracked my good image of the Evernote folks and their information policy (also their support turned out to be much less competent than I had expected. Why are you not informing users (or at least offering some comprehensible error messages), I asked the Evernote support:

So the explanation basically is that there are more limitations to your EN account that Evernote chooses to mention on pages where they pretend to inform customers about the limitations. I would like to share this with you because this has caused me so much headache cause I could not find any info on this on the web. It even took the Evernote support a couple of days to come up with a clear statement about this issue:įor various technical backend and integration reasons, there is a character limit on our notes, which happens to be 5242880 Unicode characters. So why am I writing this? – Because it doesn’t work. This is the error message that I kept getting even though my file was far from the Limit that Evernote advertizes in terms of megabytes: Evernote error: Note … content is too long xxxxxxxx, max is 5242880 Even with the free Account, notes may be 25 Mb. Shouldn’t be a problem with my Premium Account which allows a maximum note size of 50 Mb. I have a 14 MB HTML file that I want to upload to Evernote.

Evernote premium limits