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MicrosoftIntroducing the new favorites experience in Microsoft Edge
Thus my move to doing shortcuts for the time being. I am looking forward to Collections being fully developed though.
For better or worse, I use sticky notes regularly and leave the information there for future reference. I know that at one point they were added to Outlook and could be seen in a folder labeled "notes". I often use them for brain-dumps. As a young kid I was diagnosed with extreme ADHD. As we grown the symptoms manifest in different ways. And while similar among individuals. They are unique to the person. As adults we have a tendency to need to brain-dump and until we do the things in that dump is all we can focus on. Often there are things that do need to be captured and come back to. This exasperates friends, relatives, and especially partners - if we are fortunate enough to find those patient enough and understanding enough to stick with us and understand what is happening and why. Often we are told we give too much information or are just talking to hear ourselves talk. I have found that using the stickies permits me to brain dump and not overwhelm others. I don't know precisely when, but between June an now, an update occurred which eliminated almost all of my sticky notes. I know there is no getting them back so I'm not going to fret at this point. But there are other data points which also seem to disappear. Account activity - attempted logins - also seems to lose data.
Agree about the issues with Outlook. Seems like the process to move over to New Outlook at times creates added copies? Have seen several different results from the process on family devices, whether from self built to HP to Surface. All of them are a mess and seem to not straighten out. Not to mention the massive spam that creeps in at this point. One of my systems (LG Gram) seems to collect the spam in bulk. Turn it on after a couple of days and 20 plus ads for 'musk (phishing) heaters' or 'Tinder - you have a match'. Looks like 2024 will be messy... .
Back on topic: Have tried using Favorites again as running out of screen to save links. Seems to work better now but not nearly as good as original Edge that had the tool improvements from Mr. Grey. Unfortunately, they don't convert to New Edge :-{
Really would like to see more attention to 'polishing' existing features than going from one new thing to another and none of them compatible or as functional. The final product to everyday users should be on a slower channel and be a refinement rather than experiment. You lose a lot of customers when you change so much they can't actually use the product. Just sayin' ...
- Well, that is just excellent for you and I am happy that is your experience. I have been beta testing for Microsoft since before there was such a thing as an Insider and I have been part of the insider programs since their inception with Bing Insiders then WindowsPhone 7 Insiders, etc.
Your experience is NOT my experience; your experience does not invalidate my experience. I warrant some of the difference could be hardware related though, except for one ARM powered touch-enabled Acer toy computer that HP provided after they were required by the court to replace thousands of business-grade notebooks they installed faulty GPU in, I do not skimp on my computer technology. I have been running Microsoft machines ever since they became available.
Especially as of late, Outlook in all of its formats including the web-based version have been unstable at best the way they have been turning the old "mail" product into Outlook. I have lost many things that have needed to be saved.
So again, congratulations, good show, and all that. I very happy for you and your experience. Please recognize you are one individual in a universe of people who each have different experiences. - Spoiler
PapaBearJ wrote:
You bring up an interesting point. When dealing with an issue that should and needs to be worked through and fixed, if you end up speaking with Microsoft Support all too often the rep really does not have a full comprehension of what the issue actually is or does not know how to fix the issue and their all-too-soon go-to fix-all is to do a reinstallation of the OS. That, in my estimation, stunts development and issues which should be sent to a team to work on are instead swept away and forgotten because the next time the issue is brought to the attention of Support, the same thing happens. I sometimes have gotten the impression support has a database they consult and if one tech was able to "solve" it a particular way, all agents follow suit. On more than one occasion the agent's solution was reinstall and would do nothing further. I have reinstalled a few times for vey specific reasons, but have noticed the same thing you point out here. There ARE pieces that are lost. They are not in the backup, so 🤷🏼:male_sign:.
For better or worse, I use sticky notes regularly and leave the information there for future reference. I know that at one point they were added to Outlook and could be seen in a folder labeled "notes". I often use them for brain-dumps. As a young kid I was diagnosed with extreme ADHD. As we grown the symptoms manifest in different ways. And while similar among individuals. They are unique to the person. As adults we have a tendency to need to brain-dump and until we do the things in that dump is all we can focus on. Often there are things that do need to be captured and come back to. This exasperates friends, relatives, and especially partners - if we are fortunate enough to find those patient enough and understanding enough to stick with us and understand what is happening and why. Often we are told we give too much information or are just talking to hear ourselves talk. I have found that using the stickies permits me to brain dump and not overwhelm others. I don't know precisely when, but between June an now, an update occurred which eliminated almost all of my sticky notes. I know there is no getting them back so I'm not going to fret at this point. But there are other data points which also seem to disappear. Account activity - attempted logins - also seems to lose data.As someone who's been using Sticky Notes since forever and also Windows insider user, again since forever, I never EVER lost any item in my Sticky notes, not even a single time. As insider, I use experimental builds of apps and OS too, so the chances of anything going wrong is higher, YET, nothing happened to my sticky notes.
Sticky notes are cloud synced, there don't disappear all of a sudden and get "deleted". If I even accidentally delete my Sticky notes, I can go to Outlook.com and restore them from the deleted folder.
You can access your Sticky notes in Outlook website too.
