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I see. so it actually looks like it's being worked on. This is sufficient I think. If you can do "all the things" in a table cell, then it's essentially the same thing.

Hey Jack, That sounds great. Borderless tables with the capability to do in tables, whatever you can do elsewhere is a suitable compromise to columns. Nice to know you guys are listening and working on things. (And as a dev, I know that things take time. ) Coming back to Evernote for a bit and seeing the new changes refreshes was is a pleasant surprise!

Formatting. You can't put tasks lists and other things like that inside a table. If they added the capability to be able to put whatever you can do in evernote, you can also do inside a table cells, that that would be great. https://d.pr/i/Xk3xaP

vote count means nothing. Vote count is mostly a small number of enthusiasts, and doesn't really represent the masses. Most folks don't go to user forums or take the time to vote on features they want, they simply leave and don't use it and then use the software that has the features they want. Any designer worth his salt (and I've been a UX designer for close to 25 years now) finds elegant solutions for column collapsing and usability. That is zero problem if the designer is skilled enough. But if you are saying they are not, then they need to get a better designer. None of what you are saying above makes a strong case against columns. Folks generally don't try to bend developers to their will. They simply shrug and quietly leave. I was once a evernote subscriber and it was my daily driver years ago. I wasn't very surprised to hear that they were struggling a while back. I check back now and then to see if they have a compelling enough offering to come back and how they stack compared to competition. But nah. Even with the newest features, It hardly stacks up. (And it actually still feels more bloated to me than the competition)

That would hardly bloat it, and is actually considered "common feature" in the digital note taking space. How do you benchmark that? Well you look at the current most used / popular players and if they all have it, it's considered standard. (For example, all of them have "bold" and if one of those players are missing "bold" it would be missing a obviously standard feature) Standard features are not really "opinion". They just are. You either have them or your half baked. Also just because a (common) feature is added doesn't mean you have to use it.

I've done this. It's hacky at best. But still this misses the point. Tables don't have the same formatting options. (such as todo lists etc). And the point is to request this in Evernote, not go to some other authoring tool, that does it. I do use those tools. But would also love to use Evernote. And columns seems like a an obvious feature... I'm not sure how it was missed. lol. I'm a web developer / designer by profession. So yes I do do various layouts when authoring web applications... But again, the point is to have true columns (not bastardized columns, such as tables) in Evernote...

@Boot17 somewhat like this: https://d.pr/i/PdDxUd OneNote does something similar. I think craft as well. It's a pretty aged feature...

Thanks for the share @Boot17 Looks like this is for ipad Os. I'd like this feature for desktop...

I'd like to have my notes side by side (including tables). Currently everyone is using tables to create multi column notes which seems hacky and clunky. (not to mention you can put things like task inside a table column). I'll admit, I left Evernote for not having this feature alone. Screens are wide these days. It would be good to take advantage of that.