arunpms

I really like the idea of having a "Home" or a "Dashboard" for Evernote. It is really great to have a place that summarizes the information I have the way I want to summarize it and assist in the workflows I already have. Unfortunately, the current "Home" is not serving that purpose. Moreover, I am not able to find any practical application of the widgets present in the "Home" screen. Strictly speaking, they are just another view of the sidebar. But then, I really like the idea of having "Home". Can we please have these functionalities in "Home". That will make it very useful yet keeping it as generic as possible for all users. How to make the widgets in "Home" useful: Add a "Notebook" widget wherein the user will choose a Notebook and all the notes in that Notebook are shown as a list Add a "Tag" widget wherein the user will choose a Tag and all the notes in that Tag are shown as a list Add a "Shortcut" widget wherein the user will choose a Shortcut and all the notes in that Shortcut are shown as a list Add as many of these "Notebook", "Tag" and "Shortcut" widgets as the user wants How will this make "Home" useful? All EN users have a system that they follow; it could be GTD or TSW or anything else All these systems are based on Notebooks, Tags and Shortcuts By showing the crucial Notebooks or Tags or Shortcuts information in one view, "Home" will add some sort of automation or intuitiveness to the user's existing system For example, if I have a tags that says "To Do", "Doing" and "Done" to keep track of my tasks, then adding these three tags as widgets next to each other will give me a Kanban board view of my tasks I really hope this idea will get some traction and we can see it in Evernote in future.

I wanted to create a new idea suggestion for "Home" but since I saw more action in this thread, I thought I will add my points here. I hope the veterans in the forum and EN employees can agree with some of my points. How to make the widgets in "Home" useful: Add a "Notebook" widget wherein the user will choose a Notebook and all the notes in that Notebook are shown as a list Add a "Tag" widget wherein the user will choose a Tag and all the notes in that Tag are shown as a list Add a "Shortcut" widget wherein the user will choose a Shortcut and all the notes in that Shortcut are shown as a list Add as many of these "Notebook", "Tag" and "Shortcut" widgets as the user wants How will this make "Home" useful? All EN users have a system that they follow; it could be GTD or TSW or anything else All these systems are based on Notebooks, Tags and Shortcuts By showing the crucial Notebooks or Tags or Shortcuts information in one view, "Home" will add some sort of automation or intuitiveness to the user's existing system For example, if I have a tags that say "To Do", "Doing" and "Done" to keep track of my tasks, then adding these three tags as widgets next to each other will give me a Kanban board view of my tasks What will these changes make "Home" now? Not a "Home", but a "Dashboard" We do not need a "Home" for Evernote Call this a "Dashboard" and make it an optional view that is not opened by default Let the user navigate the the app the way it is happening before At least for me, the above functionality is what will make "Home"/"Dashboard" useful. Until then, I will continue to ignore "Home" on my Windows app and use the legacy version on Android.