It’s a classic: every new version of Evernote, you find some basic functionality of the programme has been modified without any reason — completely throwing your workflow up in the air in the process. A few versions ago, it used to be that when you opened a note in a separate window, it stayed put: every next note you open takes exactly the same position. But then they changed this: now every time you open a note in a separate window, it moves a few millimeters to the right. It looks nicer, when you have several notes open, to have them stacked like a deck of cards, but it is totally useless if you have an Evernote window open side by side with, say, an MS Word document in which you’re writing a report based on stuff from Everenote, as note windows keep creeping on your Word window. I complained about this a number of times (first I thought it was a bug), but in vain.
And now they’ve changed the way notes are organised by modification date. Before EN 5.1, adding tags to a note changed its modified date. It was useful when you had hundreds of untagged notes that you needed to organise. You have them listed by date modified and scroll down the list, pick a few notes in a general category and add a tag to them, the notes jump to the top of the list, which means you could now go through them one by one to take a closer look, add more tags etc. Now that’s impossible, for adding new tags no longer changes the modification date, meaning that notes you just tagged won’t jump to the top of the list. It just uselessly complicates the task of organising notes.
Dear developers: As you can see from the screenshot above, I have a big collection of notes, and I need to be efficient about the way I work with them. Every little change you make has a huge impact on the way people work. If you want people to think about EN as a grown up business and productivity service, you have to guarantee stability, and that means that basic functionality cannot be changed willy nilly. At least gives an option to retain the old way of doing things.
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It’s a classic: every new version of Evernote, you find some basic functionality of the programme has been modified without any reason — completely throwing your workflow up in the air in the process. A few versions ago, it used to be that when you opened a note in a separate window, it stayed put: every next note you open takes exactly the same position. But then they changed this: now every time you open a note in a separate window, it moves a few millimeters to the right. It looks nicer, when you have several notes open, to have them stacked like a deck of cards, but it is totally useless if you have an Evernote window open side by side with, say, an MS Word document in which you’re writing a report based on stuff from Everenote, as note windows keep creeping on your Word window. I complained about this a number of times (first I thought it was a bug), but in vain.
And now they’ve changed the way notes are organised by modification date. Before EN 5.1, adding tags to a note changed its modified date. It was useful when you had hundreds of untagged notes that you needed to organise. You have them listed by date modified and scroll down the list, pick a few notes in a general category and add a tag to them, the notes jump to the top of the list, which means you could now go through them one by one to take a closer look, add more tags etc. Now that’s impossible, for adding new tags no longer changes the modification date, meaning that notes you just tagged won’t jump to the top of the list. It just uselessly complicates the task of organising notes.
Dear developers: As you can see from the screenshot above, I have a big collection of notes, and I need to be efficient about the way I work with them. Every little change you make has a huge impact on the way people work. If you want people to think about EN as a grown up business and productivity service, you have to guarantee stability, and that means that basic functionality cannot be changed willy nilly. At least gives an option to retain the old way of doing things.
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