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I mean hiding and showing should be as simple as dynamically adding a "display: none" attribute to the element they are targeting so that shouldn't break. Weird visual stuff like this is what I'm expecting.

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Really a bliss to be able to deactivate the big buttons for task and event creation finally 🙂

I am still missing the possibility to rearrange the items in the side bar, though.

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I'm so happy! Because ALL the extra features had pushed down the notebook stack to the very bottom (prime real estate going to features I never touch) I have been shoving 2-3 stacks into Shortcuts JUST to get those notebooks to appear higher and make the sidebar actually usable). Now I get to go back to using shortcuts like I did in Legacy -- those short/med-term high-use notes that come & go. 🎉 I'd still love to see the vertical space between text tighten up over there but WOW this is exciting. Bye big buttons I never use! 

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I like it so far, but it doesn't seem to sync across my two Windows desktop instances. If this is expected behavior, I'm fine with that, but it seems odd. It's easy to tell because the other machine is over on the other side of the room and I can still see those big-ass purple and orange buttons.

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2 minutes ago, dbvirago said:

it doesn't seem to sync across my two Windows desktop instances

I think (and hope 😉) this is by intent because it allows to configure different views depending on used screens on different machines.

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48 minutes ago, dbvirago said:

but it doesn't seem to sync across my two Windows desktop instances

I don't think it's meant to so you can have different looks on different machines.

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I don't see what's different about the sidebar!!!  Have I gone mad? I'm on version 10.107.3, and it says it is the most up-to-date version.  Adding a screenshot, using a MacBook.  I just don't get it.  If anyone can enlighten me, I'd be very grateful. 

 

 

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Go to settings and select Sidebar. You can then hide which items you wish (some, like Notes, cannot be hidden). When you click on the icon at the right, it toggles hide/unhide as you wish.

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I am happy with this ability to hide some parts of the navigation pane.

I hope they continue to enhance the navigation pane.

Some features I would like to see still:

1. A shortcut key to collapse the hierarchy.  For example, I often have many stacks open over time, and I would like to compact them all at once to give me a compact view at once, instead of having to collapse them one at a time.

2. Allow the position of the notebook group and the tag group to be switched.  I lean more on tags than notebooks because a. I can have a note under multiple tags, and b. Tags can have more levels of hierarchies

3. It would be awesome if we could hide any item, even individual notebooks.  This would be a great way to set old project notebooks out of the way - a kind of archiving I guess.

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On 9/28/2024 at 6:59 AM, mackid1993 said:

Like Federico said, no matter what they do 5% of people won't be happy.

Cab I not be happy with a work in progress?  Or do you mean my wish for those features makes you unhappy? 😉

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It is very much a finished project.

You can wish whatever you want (greet Santa when you meet him). You already know where to send it.

Personally I hope the round-file this special list. I wouldn’t expect it to add value, just confusion.

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6 hours ago, Grant837 said:

Cab I not be happy with a work in progress?  Or do you mean my wish for those features makes you unhappy? 😉

That's a quote from the recent podcast he did with The Verge.

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It's kind of sad, that I had to google where the settings to change the sidebar is located...By intuition, I was searching for a settings button near the sidebar, so I clicked on the three dots beside the "add new task" button

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5 minutes ago, Sorenzo said:

It's kind of sad, that I had to google where the settings to change the sidebar is located...By intuition, I was searching for a settings button near the sidebar, so I clicked on the three dots beside the "add new task" button

Its in settings under the title sidebar.... not sure where else it should be

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NICEEE! A step to let us users format a minimalist interface! Thanks!

But still can't turn off the visibility of the "Notes" and "Notebooks" icons. Why block this option in a half customizable feature? 

 

 

Those two are the shortcuts that I don't use. If I want to find and organize a note, I just go to the "Tags", there I can make three, four, layer to organize the same note. With notebooks I can only put a note in a single "subject" and I can only have have two layers of organization (the principal Notebook and the Notebooks inside it).

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1 minute ago, Bruno Batista said:

NICEEE! A step to let us users format a minimalist interface! Thanks!

But still can't turn off the visibility of the "Notes" and "Notebooks" icons. Why block this option in a half customizable feature? 

 

 

Those two are the shortcuts that I don't use. If I want to find and organize a note, I just go to the "Tags", there I can make three, four, layer to organize the same note. With notebooks I can only put a note in a single "subject" and I can only have have two layers of organization (the principal Notebook and the Notebooks inside it).

I would imagine that would break too many things. Notes and Notebooks are too foundational to Evernote to allow them to be hidden.

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I never understood that enthusiasm anyhow.

The left panel could be collapsed nearly out of sight, hiding all „distractive“ details.

Who wanted a clean writing environment could always open a note in an independent window.

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Agora, PinkElephant disse:

I never understood that enthusiasm anyhow.

The left panel could be collapsed nearly out of sight, hiding all „distractive“ details.

Who wanted a clean writing environment could always open a note in an independent window.

The simple answer: we don't have to understand, the meaning can matter only for who is using, that's the cool thing of unleash the freedom of customization.

 

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Every customization makes the app bloated and harder to maintain, and this for all users.

That‘s the inevitable downside of customization, way too often overlooked or belittled.

I see a massive deterioration of release quality in this year, and it goes along with a lot of niceties added. I see a negative impact of all these twists and perks on key functionality going down the drain.

Search has been on and off lately, sync has been laggy in the realm of hours, attachments has gone corrupted. And instead of asking the basics to be assured, some celebrate it when complexity is driven further up.

But of course, this „quality before features before cost“ priorities has never been popular.

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45 minutes ago, Bruno Batista said:

The simple answer: we don't have to understand, the meaning can matter only for who is using, that's the cool thing of unleash the freedom of customization.

 

We (other users) don't, but Evernote certainly does.  Why else would they spend time and effort implementing a feature if they don't understand or see the utility of it?  If you feel strongly and want Evernote to see your suggestion, send it to feedback@evernote.com.

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39 minutes ago, PinkElephant said:

Every customization makes the app bloated and harder to maintain, and this for all users.

That‘s the inevitable downside of customization, way too often overlooked or belittled.

I see a massive deterioration of release quality in this year, and it goes along with a lot of niceties added. I see a negative impact of all these twists and perks on key functionality going down the drain.

Search has been on and off lately, sync has been laggy in the realm of hours, attachments has gone corrupted. And instead of asking the basics to be assured, some celebrate it when complexity is driven further up.

But of course, this „quality before features before cost“ priorities has never been popular.

Don't hold back.  Tell us how you really feel 🙂.

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