favabean

Just updated Evernote (v 10.57.5 windows desktop) and was shocked that the UI design has changed so drastically. So bothered that I made an account here to share feedback. In my opinion, these are the three biggest issues: 1) the new font size for titles--it is HUGE--way too big, and very distracting. There's no reason for it to be 32pt bold or whatever it is. Imagine if your email subject line text was that big--it's cartoonish, and distracts from the content of the note. Could we at least have the choice in the settings to customize the size of the title? I much prefer the old style where it was much smaller. 2) the pre-filled gray "choose a template" text and "start writing" text over the blank note space is similarly distracting--and completely unnecessary. Could we not have the option to disable this feature? I know it disappears when you start typing, but it still is super distracting when trying to find the words to start writing. I personally love starting from the "blank" white page. 3) it used to be just 1 click to make a new note: on the big green "+" button--now it's two clicks, and I keep accidentally clicking on the wrong button and making a "task" instead. Evernote is primarily an app for notes--so should have a simple 1-click way to make a new note, as it did before this update. These may seem like small things but for those of us who are quite visual thinkers and workers, it makes a difference. I'm a simple, but long term Evernote user--have been using it for nearly a decade as my only note taking app, and have loved using it for this. I want simple, searchable, sortable, tag-able notes synced between my laptop and my phone + the web clipping feature which I use for research--aka the original Evernote. I don't use the other features, at all. The most recent version of Evernote before this update was *perfect* for my needs --wish I had an option to undo the purely aesthetic UI changes. Edit: After a few more hours of using it, other jarring UI changes: 4) the search function used to be *perfectly* integrated at the top of the note stack--so I could quickly search by tags and pull up exactly what I was looking for, and then "x" the search when finished. Now, if you have the sidebar minimized (as I always do, to leave more space for the notes) then search is really clunky to use. 5) the new "reminders" interface is not great; I used to use a reminder to pin my master note at the top of the stack--but now it no longer sticks there--and since there is still no "pin" function, and the shortcuts bar is moved, there is no way to replicate this function.