simps 9 Posted February 11, 2018 Share Posted February 11, 2018 Hello Subj. It looks gigantic, out of place, it steals precious vertical space from the left panel, it adds padding on the left. Now because of it tags and notebooks look tiny. Is there a way to hide it? Thanks 8 Link to comment
4 MrWagstaff 22 Posted February 11, 2018 Share Posted February 11, 2018 2 hours ago, simps said: Hello Subj. It looks gigantic, out of place, it steals precious vertical space from the left panel, it adds padding on the left. Now because of it tags and notebooks look tiny. Is there a way to hide it? Thanks I would like to hide this button .. I have been using Ctrl + N for years and this is a distraction and a waste of my space. Options please? 1 Link to comment
2 Level 5* gazumped 10,331 Posted February 11, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted February 11, 2018 Agreed. Please use the voting button (top left of this page) to signify your feelings on this... 2 Link to comment
2 freyja313 46 Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 Upvoted. I upgraded about three hours ago and I thought I could just ignore it but I hate it. I have "New Note" on my toolbar; I don't also need it on the left panel, especially a bright green circle with a plus sign in it. :::sigh::: 6 Link to comment
2 maverator 6 Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 I also hate this ugly new space-consuming button. There will never be one interface that suits everyone's preferences. That's why providing options for customizing it, at least in the desktop versions, is essential. Have you looked at "Customize Toolbar"? There are barely a half-dozen things you can configure in it, there should be a lot more. That left panel? I love how you can show and hide whatever you want. Except for that ugly as hell new note button that just sits up there wasting space and being useless. 2 Link to comment
2 Level 5* DTLow 5,721 Posted March 2, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted March 2, 2018 On 2018-03-02 at 11:33 AM, RoyMan said: This button is silly when there is one in the top toolbar. One could also say - The toolbar icon is silly when there is the selection in the top menu - The menu selection is silly when there is the shortcut key Since it's redundant, I removed the icon from the top bar; customize toolbar I think everyone would be happier if the button was optional 1 Link to comment
2 TIddly27 39 Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 I am with the majority. At least make it optional like shortcuts. I do not like giving up the screen space to this button. Rick Link to comment
2 Level 5* EdH 1,670 Posted April 15, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted April 15, 2018 Agreed. Get rid of it. We have the New NOte button in the tool bar just a few pixels above it. I know the purpose is to make it easy to create a new note, but Excel doesn't have a big block of screen with a huge green button saying "New Spreadsheet" taking up space all of the time. At least allow us to turn it off. 1 Link to comment
1 hakont 5 Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 I would like to have the New Note-button as a gray one, in the tool bar. If other user is demanding it being a green + in Left panel, please give us an option to choos. 1 Link to comment
1 Level 5* jefito 5,586 Posted February 13, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted February 13, 2018 On 2/12/2018 at 5:53 AM, hakont said: I would like to have the New Note-button as a gray one, in the tool bar. Already exists as a toolbar option. Though it may go away... On 2/12/2018 at 5:53 AM, hakont said: If other user is demanding it being a green + in Left panel, please give us an option to choos. As far as I understand it, this is an Evernote-driven feature, aimed at a common UI across their applications, and I'm guessing at improving discoverability of the new note function. Link to comment
1 Level 5* CalS 5,103 Posted March 7, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted March 7, 2018 3 minutes ago, dconnet said: hinthint. Poor choice of real estate, IMHO. 1 Link to comment
1 Evernote Employee dconnet 529 Posted March 8, 2018 Evernote Employee Share Posted March 8, 2018 7 hours ago, gazumped said: I know we're rearranging deckchairs I'm trying to champion you guys on this... We'll see how it turns out... 3 1 Link to comment
1 Level 5* DTLow 5,721 Posted March 17, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted March 17, 2018 8 minutes ago, olivermode said: besides this button is very huge and obstuct my view to the structure of Notes, I added my vote to the request to make the new note button optional. Could you explain how the button obstructs your view? Link to comment
1 Level 5* gazumped 10,331 Posted March 17, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted March 17, 2018 Another vote here. I have various shortcuts, notebooks and tags in the left window - that new green button just makes the space a few lines shorter for the information I need! One of the developers seems sympathetic to various comments that others have made on this, and is trying to get it moved or at least made optional but extra votes above can't hurt... Link to comment
0 rlyoung04 18 Posted February 14, 2018 Share Posted February 14, 2018 I agree, I don't even use the new note button, i use mouse gestures to open new notes and the notebook pane now looks more cluttered and bunched together. As someone who constantly switches notebooks and drags and drops notes to different notebooks this change is unwelcome. As a power user I'd like more control over the appearance of my notebook pane, beyond color. I'd like to change the font and size of text in the pane so I don't have to squint. 1 1 Link to comment
0 vetmode 5 Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 Ugh just updated to latest and now I have this button as well. I don't see the use when we already have the grey one + key shortcut. 1 Link to comment
0 Level 5* jefito 5,586 Posted February 24, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted February 24, 2018 23 minutes ago, maverator said: Have you looked at "Customize Toolbar"? There are barely a half-dozen things you can configure in it, there should be a lot more. I count 19 items on the main toolbar, where 'New Note' lives. There are 8 items available for the note panel toolbar. I don't need either the toolbar version of 'New Note' (I've removed it) or the green '+', but I find that it doesn't bother me. I'd agree (and already suggested elsewhere) that its presence should be configurable, though. 1 Link to comment
0 RoyMan 14 Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 This button is silly when there is one in the top toolbar..ALSO even more annoying is on mac it opens the new note in a new window instead of in the existing window like the grey tollbar button. Link to comment
0 Level 5* jefito 5,586 Posted March 6, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted March 6, 2018 On 3/2/2018 at 2:33 PM, RoyMan said: This button is silly when there is one in the top toolbar. This is configurable in the Windows client. I don't have that button enabled in my toolbar. On 3/2/2018 at 2:33 PM, RoyMan said: ALSO even more annoying is on mac it opens the new note in a new window instead of in the existing window like the grey tollbar button. Then you should report it in a Mac forum, if you haven't already, as this is a Windows-specific forum. Link to comment
0 Level 5* CalS 5,103 Posted March 6, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted March 6, 2018 56 minutes ago, jefito said: This is configurable in the Windows client. I don't have that button enabled in my toolbar. Can't get rid of the green one in the left panel though... 2 Link to comment
0 Level 5* jefito 5,586 Posted March 6, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted March 6, 2018 2 hours ago, CalS said: Can't get rid of the green one in the left panel though... Ahem -- in the context of the comment I was replying to, the one in the left panel is silly because there's "already one in the toolbar",, but since the one in the toolbar can be removed (I did before the '+' came around), it's not so silly then. I'm already on record, in this topic, for making the '+' an option, btw... 1 Link to comment
0 Level 5* DTLow 5,721 Posted March 6, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted March 6, 2018 On 2018-03-02 at 11:33 AM, RoyMan said: This button is silly when there is one in the top toolbar..ALSO even more annoying is on mac it opens the new note in a new window instead of in the existing window like the grey tollbar button. The Mac issue is fixed in the latest release; new notes no longer generate a separate window My favourite comment was "garish Fisher-Price button is ugly as original sin". "Pointless" was another comment; it's a circle - no points Personally, I can't get worked up about a simple UI element Hopefully Evernote will resolve this silly point in a future release - make the sidebar button optional; choice is good - and/or remove the topbar option completely Link to comment
0 Level 5* CalS 5,103 Posted March 6, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted March 6, 2018 1 hour ago, jefito said: Ahem -- in the context of the comment I was replying to, the one in the left panel is silly because there's "already one in the toolbar",, but since the one in the toolbar can be removed (I did before the '+' came around), it's not so silly then. I'm already on record, in this topic, for making the '+' an option, btw... Gesundheit! You would think I was maligning snippet view. Link to comment
0 dtprof 10 Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 Agreed. Who needs a New Note option on the sidebar? Also the spacing of the new icon is large, as is the new spacing above the Trash icon in the sidebar too. 1 Link to comment
0 Level 5* jefito 5,586 Posted March 7, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted March 7, 2018 48 minutes ago, dtprof said: Agreed. Who needs a New Note option on the sidebar? New users might -- it's a common enough UI idiom; maybe it's based on UX feedback and/or telemetry. Also, the stated reason for its addition was to give a similar look across Evernote platforms (I think that was in a Windows beta topic a couple of months ago). 58 minutes ago, dtprof said: Also the spacing of the new icon is large, as is the new spacing above the Trash icon in the sidebar too. The spacing between top-level entries in the side panel (New button excepted) appears to be consistent, 31 pixels. *shrug* Everybody's a UI expert (except me)... Link to comment
0 Evernote Employee dconnet 529 Posted March 7, 2018 Evernote Employee Share Posted March 7, 2018 On 3/6/2018 at 12:52 PM, DTLow said: and/or remove the topbar option completely hinthint. Link to comment
0 Level 5* jefito 5,586 Posted March 7, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted March 7, 2018 On 3/6/2018 at 3:52 PM, DTLow said: Personally, I can't get worked up about a simple UI element Ditto. It's like that note on my refrigerator door; it's right there in front of me every day, but I barely notice it. If it's ever an option, I'll probably remove it, if I get around to it. On 3/6/2018 at 3:52 PM, DTLow said: Hopefully Evernote will resolve this silly point in a future release - make the sidebar button optional; choice is good - and/or remove the topbar option completely The nice part about the toolbar (I assume that that's what you mean by 'topbar', unless you're referring to the Mac app) button is that it's optional. The other nice part about it is that there are actually two toolbar buttons, one of which gives you the option to create notes of different kinds (Note, Ink Note, Audio Note, etc.), not that I ever create any of those fancy types of notes... Link to comment
0 Level 5* DTLow 5,721 Posted March 8, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted March 8, 2018 23 hours ago, jefito said: The other nice part about it is that there are actually two toolbar buttons, one of which gives you the option to create notes of different kinds (Note, Ink Note, Audio Note, etc.), not that I ever create any of those fancy types of notes... Evernote is rolling out the "different notes" feature with a long press of the note button. We've seen this on the IOS platform Link to comment
0 Level 5* gazumped 10,331 Posted March 8, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted March 8, 2018 7 hours ago, DTLow said: Evernote is rolling out the "different notes" feature with a long press of the note button. We've seen this on the IOS platform But Long Press is a mobile convention that I have n*e*v*e*r before used on my windows (or any) desktop. Adding that in the desktop version is completely counter-intuitive. And I agree. Put the button there in the side bar if you want - where it sticks out like a sore thumb - but give users the option to switch it off (or to move it to the toolbar) just like the shortcuts options... I know we're rearranging deckchairs, but this is one of those change-for-change-sake things where time could be better spent in so many other ways... 2 Link to comment
0 olivermode 3 Posted March 17, 2018 Share Posted March 17, 2018 Hi, I have a feature request, I hope evernote can provide the Option To Hide Add Note Button in the left upper corner, Since I know I can Use Ctrl + N to create new note, So I really really don't need this button, besides this button is very huge and obstuct my view to the structure of Notes, so I hope I can choose to hide this button, wish it can be evluated, thank you! 1 Link to comment
0 olivermode 3 Posted March 17, 2018 Share Posted March 17, 2018 Beacuse in the older version without this button, the whole note structure is complete and clear full fill the left panel, which make me me feel more comfortable, but now this button is like to occupy a piece of territory of original territory of notes structure, so I feel disturbed. p.s. I'm not highly familiar with English now, so the use of word might not be so precise, I guess the word "obstruct" may be too strong, if I use "disturb" will be weaker and better. I describe it a bit exaggerately deliberately. Link to comment
0 shifflav 1 Posted March 26, 2018 Share Posted March 26, 2018 Choice is good. If they are going to jack up our rates, then I don't think it's too much to ask that we have an option to turn off their dumb ideas. Evernote needs to revamp their design team...it's getting embarrassing and I'm tired of seeing the ideas of users being ignored. I no longer recommend Evernote to anyone. I'm still irritated that I have to squint when reading posts on this website because someone decided that light gray text on white was a good design choice. Link to comment
0 Level 5* gazumped 10,331 Posted March 27, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted March 27, 2018 19 hours ago, shifflav said: I'm tired of seeing the ideas of users being ignored. Hi. It isn't so much that ideas are ignored, as Evernote don't have any obligation to listen - or provide a forum like this - in the first place. Suggestions are always welcomed, but they are just that: requests and suggestions. Link to comment
0 Level 5* DTLow 5,721 Posted March 27, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted March 27, 2018 19 hours ago, shifflav said: I don't think it's too much to ask that we have an option You're welcome to indicate your support for this request using the voting buttons in the upper left corner of the discussion >>If they are going to jack up our rates The basic account is still free. The software is still free. Link to comment
0 shifflav 1 Posted March 27, 2018 Share Posted March 27, 2018 25 minutes ago, gazumped said: Hi. It isn't so much that ideas are ignored, as Evernote don't have any obligation to listen - or provide a forum like this - in the first place. Suggestions are always welcomed, but they are just that: requests and suggestions. Since I'm a paying customer, then yes, they have an obligation to listen. If I were using the free version...then no, I wouldn't have any reason to expect support of any kind. 1 Link to comment
0 Level 5* gazumped 10,331 Posted March 27, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted March 27, 2018 2 minutes ago, shifflav said: Since I'm a paying customer, then yes, they have an obligation to listen. If I were using the free version...then no, I wouldn't have any reason to expect support of any kind. Actually, they really don't - check your account T&C's. You're certainly entitled to support for technical issues and bugs, but changing the features or the look of the app isn't either of those things. Link to comment
0 TIddly27 39 Posted March 27, 2018 Share Posted March 27, 2018 You are correct. Also, not listening to your customers is usually a fast way to go out of business. I would be curious to see what their numbers are today vs just 3 years ago. Evernote will pay no more attention to this than the dark theme, which started in 2013 and the most recent post was 3/16/18. We are a business user with several employees using evernote. It really gripes me when I see them come out with big new features like work chat and spaces, when so much of the program needs to be fixed and or vastly improved. Link to comment
0 Level 5* jefito 5,586 Posted March 27, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted March 27, 2018 33 minutes ago, shifflav said: Since I'm a paying customer, then yes, they have an obligation to listen. If I were using the free version...then no, I wouldn't have any reason to expect support of any kind. I believe that you'll find that Evernote is happy to listen to ideas, complaints, bugs and suggestions from any user, paid or otherwise (in particular, the forums here have no check on paid vs. free users). They don't always respond, but are always respectful, in my experience. With respect to suggestions , though, listening may not result in changes to the software. It's the way of any product. 23 minutes ago, TIddly27 said: Also, not listening to your customers is usually a fast way to go out of business. I would be curious to see what their numbers are today vs just 3 years ago. A web search on "Evernote users" turned up this: https://www.cnet.com/news/evernote-raised-prices-got-more-of-us-to-sign-up/ (dated Oct 11, 2017) and this: https://www.statista.com/statistics/446885/number-of-evernote-users/ (current to mid 2016), among other articles.... Link to comment
0 lisa_krasnaya 0 Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 This button kills my desire to use Evernote :(( I can't ignore it. It distracts from the list of notebooks, it should not be on this panel in terms of logic... So, can we wait for the change? Link to comment
0 cld 2 Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 On 2/11/2018 at 11:21 AM, simps said: Hello Subj. It looks gigantic, out of place, it steals precious vertical space from the left panel, it adds padding on the left. Now because of it tags and notebooks look tiny. Is there a way to hide it? Thanks Fully agree !! Please include option to remove this bogus botton !! Link to comment
0 cld 2 Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 Seems to be a duplicate. Could some admin combine this with the other thread on this request ?? Link to comment
0 Level 5* DTLow 5,721 Posted February 12, 2019 Level 5* Share Posted February 12, 2019 40 minutes ago, cld said: Seems to be a duplicate. Could some admin combine this with the other thread on this request ?? Requests/Discussions have been merged Link to comment
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Subj.
It looks gigantic, out of place, it steals precious vertical space from the left panel, it adds padding on the left. Now because of it tags and notebooks look tiny.
Is there a way to hide it?
Thanks
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