(Archived) Creating a Note - Interface suggestion

[Ka3m0n_PAV 1]

I'm looking for a good "Note Manager" to quickly add and lookup notes.  Creating a note is the core idea behind evernote and yet, surprisingly, it is cumbersome to create one - When creating a new note in Evernote, the cursor is placed in the body text area with no way to easily add a title to the note.  For one, shouldn't the "Title" textbox be the default textbox so you can add a title to the note?  If not, shouldn't it be possible to navigate to the "Title" textbox from the text area by pressing Shift + Tab?   ??????

 

 

 

[Spencey 3]

I'm looking for a good "Note Manager" to quickly add and lookup notes.  Creating a note is the core idea behind evernote and yet, surprisingly, it is cumbersome to create one - When creating a new note in Evernote, the cursor is placed in the body text area with no way to easily add a title to the note.  For one, shouldn't the "Title" textbox be the default textbox so you can add a title to the note?  If not, shouldn't it be possible to navigate to the "Title" textbox from the text area by pressing Shift + Tab?   ??????

I agree, and my biggest annoyance is that the tags can only be attributed through that tiny little 'i' icon which my fingers nearly always end up activating a voice memo instead

 

Surely Evernote is built upon 2 things, notebooks and tags, yet tags are two taps away from every new note.....

[gazumped 9,568]

As to titles,  if you start typing in the note area,  the first words/ line of your note will become the title - unless you use 'smart titling' in which case Evernote might put something in there for you...

 

And for tags - which version of Evernote are we talking here?  I have a menu option which says 'tags'...

[jefito 5,586]

In the WIndows client, F3 puts you into the tags editor for the current note. Press F3, and start typing your tag name.

[Spencey 3]

I'm referring to iPhone when talking about tags. Thanks.

[Ka3m0n_PAV 1]

"As to titles,  if you start typing in the note area,  the first words/ line of your note will become the title"

- Gazumped

 

Thanks Gazumped.  Auto-titling would reduce the need to add a title manually but I would still suggest that they make the controls navigable via Tab/Shift+Tab in the Desktop client.  That's standard convention in all desktop applications and feels "broken" in Evernote.  

[jefito 5,586]

I'm referring to iPhone when talking about tags. Thanks.

Nobody specified any client whatsoever, so I added info that might be relevant to someone (particularly as the original poster referenced "Shift+Tab"). I can't speak to iOS or Mac.

@Ka3m0n_PAV: tabbing around Evernote's UI in Windows has been funky for a while; it would be great to have that fixed.