jilliant

Is the home thing a beta test that got leaked?? I'm no UX/UI designer but EN seems to devolve more than evolve. "Recently Captured" is redundant since opening EN (prior to the useless Home install) already lists notes in recent ordering. "Scratch Pad" widget is half the layout footprint of "Customize your Home" section. Why wouldn't you design that into the menu or preferences, rather than forcing the user to look at it every time the Home screen appears?? Please grant us very longtime paying users the option till delete this useless hack. And do better beta testing.

13 hours ago, Sayre Ambrosio said:

 

Edit protection has worked like intended for me, but I'm super methodical in how I interact with my notes. I did have my husband "look" at a note and didn't say anything to him about edit protection or the edit button to see what he ended up doing and he ended up brushing his finger against the edit button which allowed the edits even with protection turned on. There should be a setting where if edit protection is turned on the big blue edit button is removed or changes to a lock icon or something similar to prevent hitting it. Thus forcing a double tap to edit.

The only difference that edit lock does is instead of tapping once to get into edit, you need to doubletap. So I don't see why there's even a need for the edit button at all though, locked or not.

I am baffled by this too. Like what is the point of the "Edit" button when you can touch the note and it goes into edit mode?? This is such an obvious oversight that I'm wondering if this is some kind of trick.

On 11/7/2020 at 2:55 AM, MrIllustrator said:

Thank you, I brought this up in the beta program, and I think you are spot on, they don’t seem to care a jot about number of clicks, amount of pointless mouse movement up and down, left and right, all across the screen, for the simplest of tasks or efficiency of workflow. All very very frustrating. It’s like they can’t type so have ignored the keyboard entirely, it’s almost like the classic Evernote never existed. The new owners don’t seem to realise what a great classic, efficient, usable program they inherited looking at this sorry excuse for a so called Upgrade. 

Well there's some hope yet, as Notion seems to be competing for Evernote users. They're also half the price of EN, though I wouldn't mind the EN price if only their product isn't losing functionality in the first place. Their current version is not up to par for my workflow yet but you might want to check them out in case it meets your needs.

On 11/6/2020 at 6:50 AM, Ron V said:

I agree as well.  Moving between notebooks takes more taps.  If I want to see the notebook that I was viewing last, I have to do several taps to navigate back to it because All Notes is opened by default.

It really feels like every major version since 7.18 has been a downgrade in functionality.  I've been a power user for 10 years as well, and now I'm considering searching for a replacement for my external brain.  Very frustrated.

The closest this comes to is possibly Notion, but even with it's impressive versatility (SQL! full customization!), it still comes up short on the doc management of webclippings if you do a lot of research docs. Which the OLD Evernote was capable of. Like sending emails directly into notes from other sources (I use EN to manage the numerous sites I subscribe to). However, Notion appears to be expanding their development quickly so it's definitely something to watch. Until then, I'll settle for the legacy Evernote that runs on one computer that I'll be sure to never upgrade.

There are SO many mindboggling UI/UX issues I have with the remake that it almost doesn't matter whether I'm talking about iOS or desktop version as some functions got removed altogether. 

I'm sure the team has worked hard to change things but this feels like the right answer to the wrong question.

Just came here to commiserate since this site says I’m not allowed add anymore reactions today. 🤬 

I can’t even rollback on iOS. I’m a power user for almost 10 years and have put up with a flawed product...to an even more flawed remake. Deflating, to say the least.