Notebooks on Side Bar

[Daryush 4]

Hi,

In first I want congratulate the Evernote staff for the idea and bring the web application more close to the desktop version.

Back to topic , the organization on side bar under notebooks in alphabetical order is not comfortable, specially when using on the desktop version notebooks organized under stack.

It takes time to find the right notebook and also with tens of notebooks some names are similar but belong to different topic. Will glad to see improve on that.  

[sjachille 15]

This is a good point - I was also wanting to change the layout but failed to find a way to do this. Also, I would suggest the search bar be moved from where it is now and over to the main note window, easier to use, more accessible

[Larry_C 15]

I have to add my voice.  While I guess it is not strictly the editor, I even tried to look for another place to report this but the community search does not appear to even allow me to easily find another place to post.  So here it is.  Please do something to include stacks in the sidebar.  I went looking for the stack and could not find it.  The stack is there when you view the 

Notebooks

My notebook list

Larry
2019AP04 19:30

[Enrico Nahler 18]

6 hours ago, Larry_C said:

 Please do something to include stacks in the sidebar.  I went looking for the stack and could not find it.  The stack is there when you view the 

Notebooks

My notebook list

Larry
2019AP04 19:30

I would love to have stacks being displayed in the side bar, too. Great request.

[Shane D. 1,818]

@Daryush @sjachille @Larry_C @Enrico Nahler 

Thank you for sharing your feedback regarding notebooks on the side bar!

For the purposes of this forum, we're looking to focus on feedback/suggestions regarding the editor experience.

In this case, I'm going to move this thread to our product feedback area as it pertains more so to a general request.

Please continue to share your feedback, and let me know if you have any questions!

 

[jefito 5,589]

Would the people making requests here please specify which Evernote clients they are referring to? The OP talked about the web client, but also referenced the desktop versions. But in the Windows Evernote, the sidebar displays notebooks organized by stack, so stacks are shown in the sidebar:

Notebooks 

• Stack 1
  • Notebook 1
  • Notebook 2
• Stack 2
  • Notebook 3
  • Notebook 4
• etc.

Seems confusing as to what's being asked for for which Evernote client...

 

[Larry_C 15]

Shane D, can you please provide a link to the relocated discussion?!

[jefito 5,589]

2 hours ago, Larry_C said:

Shane D, can you please provide a link to the relocated discussion?!

You just posted in it. Or, if you're old enough:

 

[hroddy 0]

I would like to piggyback on this now three-year-old suggestion. As a researcher (I primarily use desktop on a Mac, because that's where I write), I often find alphabetical organization inefficient. I need to be able to organize notebooks and stacks according to what I happen to be working on. Right now, in order to do this, I have to put an "x" at the beginning of the titles of all the notebooks and stacks not relevant to my current project to get them out of the way, so that everything I need is grouped together. Notability (which I've been looking at as an alternative because paying so much more for so much less gets old) does this by allowing the user to use dividers. (Amazingly, Notability also offers users more than six fonts. How on earth do they do it???!)

But I don't expect a meaningful response, because I now understand how this works: a user will make a very meaningful suggestion on the boards, the moderators respond with "that does sound interesting," and then the comment will languish for years without Evernote ever having made the suggested improvement.

I only started experimenting with Notability yesterday, and what I've found so far is a much richer and more supple experience at one-sixth the cost of Evernote. Maybe I'll find that glaring weakness that will persuade me against migrating, but, if not, buh-bye bloated elephant!

[PinkElephant 8,117]

Notability has a completely different approach - if it works better for you, use it.

Beside this the forum is user2user. What sort of enthusiasm would you expect ?

Currently there are different ways to select "active" content. One would be to apply a "Project X" tag to all notes involved, and use a saved search (or simply a tag filter) to only show these notes. Your request of organizing by notebook is probably the least useful one.

Just as an example: When working on different projects, I have one note holding a table with the time spend per project. I use it to invoice the project owner. I can simply tag it with all active projects, and find it from every project that is open. Once a new project is added, I add a tag. Once the last invoice is written, I remove the tag. Impossible by notebooks - I would have duplicates, or the time sheet only for that project, without a consolidation. Notebooks should not be used as a main organizational tool.

If you want to organize by notebooks, watch out for another tool.

[Boot17 1,452]

On 7/18/2022 at 10:20 AM, hroddy said:

But I don't expect a meaningful response, because I now understand how this works: a user will make a very meaningful suggestion on the boards, the moderators respond with "that does sound interesting," and then the comment will languish for years without Evernote ever having made the suggested improvement.

This is how I've seen it work: Someone will make a suggestion that fits their own (and maybe perhaps a dozen of others) (often fringe) use case perfectly and wonders how on earth it won't get implemented because it makes so much sense to them personally.

[Mike P 2,643]

On 7/18/2022 at 5:20 PM, hroddy said:

But I don't expect a meaningful response, because I now understand how this works: a user will make a very meaningful suggestion on the boards, the moderators respond with "that does sound interesting," and then the comment will languish for years without Evernote ever having made the suggested improvement.

You seem to have left out the step where your fellow users suggest other ways of operating, either as a permanent solution or as a workaround until the suggestion is implemented.

On 7/18/2022 at 5:20 PM, hroddy said:

Right now, in order to do this, I have to put an "x" at the beginning of the titles of all the notebooks and stacks not relevant to my current project to get them out of the way, so that everything I need is grouped together.

Surely it would be easier to put a character (e.g. @) at the beginning of the notebook you are working on so that it appears at the top of your list. Alternatively why not just add that notebook to your shortcuts for the duration of the current project.