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Thanks @Dave-in-Decatur - I will fwd to the email address as well. My hope is that the Product team will periodically look at the community forums as a customer signal - most product teams do this, but if they're not, it pretty much explains everything. Thanks again for the suggestion - I appreciate it!

The update earlier this year (in my case MacOS desktop) included some really terrible UX decisions. The biggest one for me lately is the lack of ability to resize columns in list view. This presents a few huge experience drawbacks that you could pretty easily fix - column resizing is a 1998 UX problem, not 2024. - The worst for me is the lack of ability to resize the Title column so that I can read the whole title, compounded by a ridiculously non-dynamic resizing when I close other columns. Right now on average I can read the first 5 or 6 words. I use Evernote clipper for research, so the titles are often much longer. Without being able to resize the column (or it doing that for me when extra space in the view is detected - I'd take that even), I can't skim the list anymore for relevant topics, or I miss them altogether. The third line of the example above where it says, "The outdated concept that&#8217..." is what I'm talking about - do you see how that is not useful for quickly assessing relevance, like, at all? - The automatic super-bloated resizing of columns like "Updated" or "Created". See screenshot above. Who in their right mind needs all of the space in the updated and created columns as shown? Can you not see that being able to make those columns narrower and making the title column wider would be so much better? - The lack of dynamic resizing when columns are removed: Do you not see a UX problem here? Also notice the gigantic amount of wasted space between lines - I get that some folks want some extra space, but I would like basic controls of "compact" vs "comfortable" or similar depending on what I'm trying to accomplish. Give the user the choice. This is not hard. Snippets view is even worse: Now I can see the whole title (Yay!), but I can only see a handful of items at once, and if I turn off things like content view, the wasted space is outrageous. It should simply dynamically resize, or better yet, give me control to basically make the list view that is lacking: I'm guessing that somebody rationalized these decisions by saying "well they can just use card or snippets views or hover to see more information". The problem with this is a) the other views still cuts off titles, but less so, and more importantly b) your eyes have to scroll both horizontally and vertically to find pattern matches. And hover is completely useless for quick work when you are trying to assess a list quickly. Try it. While I get that some people may prefer that, others of us find it faster to scroll only vertically through lists, not left to right, one row at a time. This problem is fixed easily with resizable columns in list view. Lists exist for a reason. Please fix this. Lastly, basic, basic UX here: In the Options view that shows "Note List View" and "Note Preview", it is horrible practice to use color alone to indicate whether a feature is enabled. It is not compliant with accessibility standards, and even if you did skate by ignoring customers who need accessibility options, it's terrible practice to not include some visual indicator like a checkmark for people who cannot see the full spectrum of color. This is like UX 101. What happened? If I'm missing something please let me know. Is there a way already to address these in the new UI? If there is, it's not very obvious where I might find those solutions - another UX problem.

I have used Evernote off and on for many years, but I am now using it fulltime as my project repository so I use it constantly throughout the day. Ask 1: When I'm using the + New button on Windows/Mac/iPad, it adds friction to my workflow to have to click twice (+ New --> choose note or task). I think a lot of us would prefer to have a dedicated New Note button in the primary view so that I can create new notes as quickly and effortlessly as possible. This seems super trivial, except I'm used to this behavior (single click) in most other pieces of software I've used or tried. My goal is to be in a flow state as much as possible when I'm working on projects, and every extra click diminishes that. My bet is this was a debate between UX and Product on how best to do this since you have both notes and tasks that people create (and that takes up screen real estate), but the two clicks is in my opinion the worse option. The base UI is a little cleaner, but the functionality is at the user's expense. (I also recognize that I can use a keyboard shortcut for this, but I still default to mouse clicks at times out of habit/when I'm using the mouse already.) Ask 2: On iOS, I often want to quickly capture a note in Evernote as I'm driving and thinking about things. I have the widget installed that gives me the 4 options, but I would much prefer to have a very large + New Note button for this reason (a driving mode would be even better, but that's a big ask). Since Siri doesn't seem to work anymore for creating Evernote notes, the slight improvement is to have a very large button widget on my phone that I can tap and dictate a message with. As it is today, the widget buttons are too small to safely do this. I don't want all of the options - just a + New Note, and let me sort it later if it's a task, etc. Thanks!