Popular Post soundsgoodtome 155 Posted October 18, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 18, 2020 When I create a new note, I want to start with the title, not the body. That's how it's been for years. Why would you change this? If you believe some users want this new behavior, please, please make this a preference we can specify. (Speaking of which, what happened to preferences? Now there's no centralized place for settings? WTH?) 15 Link to comment
1 MissArdbeg 134 Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 Completely agree. Same applies for iOS. And basically any kind of capturing (EN Helper when it is available again, Apple Watch when it is available again ...). Please let people choose what best fits to their workflow or start with the title. Starting with body is really unintuitive. 1 Link to comment
1 knolte 2 Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 Agreed! I'm still trying to get used to this change. Wish there could at least be a toggle for this in preferences. 2 Link to comment
1 Paul A. 676 Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 I'm indifferent to this particular change, I think it has Pros and Cons, although I understand why a change in functionality would irritate some people. But a small workaround which might make your life easier is use Shift-Tab to move to the subject line after creating a note. This is helpful if you create a note from the keyboard and want to efficiently move to the title without taking your hands off the keyboard. 1 1 Link to comment
1 Andrea Bisiach 16 Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 This is really bad and connected with another bug I reported elsewhere. If one browses with key up and down the note list and suddenly hits a note without body, the cursor jumps automatically to the note body and I can no longer use key up and down. I looks like a badly designed and implemented shortcut to start quickly typing in the body. I want to be able to have notes with only a title without being forced to edit the body (i.e. like a quick reminder or todo) If EN is really into forcing users to write a body in the note, well then I suggest to remove the Title field entirely. Whatever is written on the very first line of the body could be considered the "tile" metadata and treated as such im views, api and so on. Not a a pretty solution but in line with some other twists we are experiencing in the product 1 Link to comment
1 davidjconnolly 0 Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 Has anybody found a solution to this? It interrupts my workflow and adds a click to evert note I create, driving me crazy after years of CTRL-N -> Start typing Link to comment
1 bmarshall_en 0 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Hate the new change that places focus in body. What UX "designer" thought this would be a good idea, particularly with no way to toggle it in the now nonexistent options? Please fix this asap by either reverting to how it was (i.e., focus in title on new note) or make a way for us to toggle focus between title or body. Do you review these changes with customers before pushing them out to everyone? Link to comment
1 doppmonster 0 Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 +1 on these: 1) Why doesn't it focus the title anymore for new notes (Mac/Evernote 10.4.4) ? I'm more likely to end up with a bunch of untitled notes if you encourage me to write note first, title later. 2) Speaking of which... where did preferences go...? Do we not need them anymore? Because if we're having different opinions about #1, then i think we need them. I'm not a forum user; this issue is bothering me enough that created an account here. Thanks for your consideration. Link to comment
1 mirekstrnad 1 Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 Please, please, stop messing with your core users. I do not like this change, please make it optional. Link to comment
1 C Goddard 0 Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Another +1 on this - I understand there's been a lot of redevelopment but I've been an Evernote user for nearly 10 years. This is a trivial thing to fix but it's an incredibly irritating thing for users who have a particular preferred workflow. Please add some kind of settings/configuration screen to the Mac app so that changes like this can be a user decision Link to comment
1 Dazla80 0 Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Completely agree. This is annoying as when I create a quick note, I cant then peruse the title to see what I haev written. This detracts from speed and efficiency. Please start new notes in title on Mac. Link to comment
1 JCausey 0 Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 I support this. It should be a preference choice, and since it was already built in, it should be easy to bring back. Link to comment
1 jenbenn 3 Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 This should be a preference, I hate it and am now starting to use other platforms to keep info just to avoid this issue. Link to comment
1 SamuelTremblay 1 Posted May 20, 2021 Share Posted May 20, 2021 I love the way Evernote give a feature in one version and then remove the feature in another one and just say to their user that they just have to do "Shift-Tab". That would be nice to buy a car and at some point, after an update of the firmware of the computer engine, the brake and accelerator would be inversed and the engineering indicating that you just have to push on the accelerator now when you want to stop the car. The least minimum would be a "Sorry" from Evernote to the people that pay for this application and don't forget that is this money that pay for their jobs. Not supprised that so many people goes to Notion. 1 Link to comment
0 Rick Shenkman Seattle 1 Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 Yes yes yes. 1 Link to comment
0 halr9000 7 Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 I bothered to create a forum account to vote this one up. Kinda dissatisfied that this was a solved problem, then broken, then there was an option for Windows, but not for macos. 2 Link to comment
0 James Longley 90 Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 I see the utility in both approaches. Ultimately when you want to make a note of something, it's very likely that most people want to just crack on and write the stuff down/start recording/drawing etc. Preferences option for sure. 1 Link to comment
0 halr9000 7 Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 9 hours ago, James | Headquarters said: it's very likely that most people If you have data to justify that opinion, that would be interesting. But I disagree with it. Link to comment
0 James Longley 90 Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 21 minutes ago, halr9000 said: If you have data to justify that opinion, that would be interesting. But I disagree with it. Sadly I do not. We'll call it an educated guess. We'll have to agree to disagree. Link to comment
0 Paul A. 676 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 22 hours ago, davidjconnolly said: Has anybody found a solution to this? It interrupts my workflow and adds a click to evert note I create, driving me crazy after years of CTRL-N -> Start typing Shift-Tab is the only workaround that I'm aware of, as I mentioned further up thread: Link to comment
0 Level 5 PinkElephant 8,773 Posted May 20, 2021 Level 5 Share Posted May 20, 2021 Some people prefer to start typing right away, and think about a title later. Others prefer to title first, and then start editing. If you belong to one fraction, you will be unhappy with the other solution. I personally prefer to start with the note, and add the title later. Probably a switch in settings could pacify the discussion. Link to comment
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soundsgoodtome 155
When I create a new note, I want to start with the title, not the body. That's how it's been for years. Why would you change this?
If you believe some users want this new behavior, please, please make this a preference we can specify.
(Speaking of which, what happened to preferences? Now there's no centralized place for settings? WTH?)
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