Freelander

I've just upgraded and hit the same issue. Evernote should be ashamed of themselves, this is a massive problem - it makes the product 100% useless.

Agreed. This just goes to show you can't please all the people all the time. So please just make it an optional. I hate this enforced wasted space on my valuable screen real estate. This is complete nonsense. It's almost enough to make me move on...