I regret to have downloaded the new version of evernote, as now my notebooks are all organized in a list. This does not give a good overview - one has to scroll down + it is an extremely boring layout.

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The old book form (the little squares) where better in both aspects (going from left to right, it was possible to see many more notebooks on the screen.) My request is to allow users to choose for themselves if they want list or books (just add an icon next to 'your list' = sort by = books (instead of only number of notes, etc., names etc.), and why in addition (later, after this has been solved) do not also work on a version that allow users to add other distinguishing features, depending on their own preferences (shapes, colors,). Cross posted from Help Forum I want to echo the sentiment in this post. I initially thought this was a new 'default' setting not a removal of a feature. This is a very poor user experience move. Had you warned me that you would be removing what was a key branding element of this product, I would not have upgraded. As it stands, I will reconsider other options for me and my team. May I recommend that in the future, you perform beta testing / customer validation of such a major change before you launch.

This change really sucks for visual thinkers who see things in 2 or 3 dimensions! The old Notebook icon layout allowed me to find things by their location and not necessarily by the title. It gave me a quick visual overview of all my notebooks in just a few scrolls. Now, I am forced to think of the title first in order to find it. I then have to scroll endlessly (which is terribly distracting when you have something on your mind that you want to get down). Most times I have to scroll back up since I missed what I was looking for. The old Notebook icon was more efficient since it's layout was not only up and down but also left to right.

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This shortens considerably the time it takes to find a Notebook. Now I have to rethink the titles of some notebooks in order to better organize some frequently used Notebooks to the TOP (the TOP now being significantly less!). I had to get use to this change on the iPad (which I hated and still do) but my use of the iPad is different since I use it to find notes more than compose notes, therefore, the distraction of endless scrolling was less of an issue. I use Evernote on my Mac to compose notes where I am thinking, researching and problem solving. The scrolling on the Mac version becomes a detriment to fluid thinking. This change has really affected how I 'see' my Notebooks and most likely it will affect my productivity immensely.

Like White said above, let your users choose!!! I am in the same boat - I hate the new UI and had I known about this change I wouldn't have updated Evernote on my Mac. This is totally ridiculous and makes me want to find an alternative to Evernote. And I am a very, very long time Evernote power user. I just started using Bear which has a much better design and UX, I was just going to use the free version in addition to Evernote but this change is seriously hindering my productivity.

Tags are much more intuitive in Bear and it supports Markdown, too, btw. Still not sure if it's a suitable substitute for Evernote, I hope the Evernote team decides to allow the old Notebook view back soon. I'm genuinely annoyed about this — Like most serious Evernote users I have found a comfortable, efficient way to utilise it and then discover that the developers have decided to mess around with a major part of he UI. I wonder how they would like it if somebody came into their office in the middle of the night and rearranged their files or tinkered with the things on their desks?

Forcing a single-column notebook list is utterly thoughtless, messes with the long-established workflow/muscle memory of users and is the sort of 'change for change's sake' which is something of an insult to long-term paying customers who have committed to Evernote and rely upon it for their work. Crucially, for anyone using a wide-screen monitor rather than a tiny laptop, the ability to see all the notebooks at a single glance is now gone. Thanks a bunch, Evernote. Kindly bring the original view back and soon. Hello, i initially came here for the same request. I absolutely love Evernote, but this new notebooks view is a major step back!! I have more than 50 notebooks, a 24' screen, but i have to scroll 5 times the height of my screen to see all my notebooks.

I used to have all my notebooks immediately available without scrolling before this update. Another thing i would like to say, is that i realized now i have no idea whats the first character of the notebook i'm looking for. So i even don't know where to scroll to. I think my brain used to record the column or place where things where. I opened my Evernote today at the start of an important meeting and l looked like a chump. I was totally sideswiped.

I'm not normally someone who hates on change for change sake but one of the reasons I was happy to take the plunge for a premium account is that the grid (mini notebook) layout is better for me as a spatial reasoning person. The thing that I enjoyed most about this product was that whoever the original designers were seemed to really think like me. It was hyper-intuitive.

This is really clunky and off putting. I LOVE the product. You are a major part of my personal life and my business. I guess this is why it feels like such a huge deal to me. Betrayal is a strong word.butima use it. PLEASE PLEASE BRING BACK THE BOOK LAYOUT. Dear Evernote team, I absolutely love(d) your app, it changed the way I interact with my computer in so many positive ways and I've always been promoting and recommending it to all of my acquaintances and friends.

The removal of the grid/multicolumn viewing option completely destroys the efficient Evernote user experience I had to this point. It may be practical for those who do not have a lot of notebooks, but for those who do - in other words, the real aficionado and loyal Evernote user base - it's a disaster! The lack of a grid/multicolumn view is seriously going to slow down our productivity Please don't do this. You may lose a lot of users (old and new)!!! I tweeted them. Does anyone have an idea of an alternate database that's vetted and likely to be around a while?

I'd used SOHO Notes for about 10 years, until their lack of communication (when an OS update broke it and they didn't reply to pleas to know if they'd fix it or not) caused me to leave. This access change and lack of communication about it feels like the same customer disrespect to me. I'm interested in trying again - maybe 3rd time is the charm - find a company with a good product AND good customer communications. So I do love Evernote. I've never liked their arrogance toward design though. They come up with fantastic ideas but then the think they 'know it', it seems they only design as THEY like it. Omniscient beings that always know what we the users -paying users!!!- need or want.l It's not a conspiracy, it's just business; THEY DON'T CARE!

It's about numbers. So, if enough users complain, they go back on their decision, but if not enough users complain, then they were infallibly right and they'll just keep being in many areas design gods. That arrogance is what irks me from Evernote- love everything else. I don't think I can really stay any longer. I gave this arrogant design decision time for it 'to grow on me'. But it didn't. My work flow-which developed through time because of Evernote's design- starts with the Notebook view.

So scrolling and searching is agains the grain for me -an ignorant non-flexible user-. Why not just add this awful new layout to the user choices for Notebook view so WE THE USERS CAN CHOSSE! I will be moving to another platform. It's probably best for Evernote because it's obvious I'm not in their customer radar.

This is typical of the behaviour of many tech/software companies. Apple, for one, is notorious for making forcing unwelcome changes on users. For example, when they dumbed-down Pages to the point of uselessness, they aggravated countless business users who then had to purchase alternative software because Apple had decided to 'improve' a perfectly good product. However, it has a customer base which has heavily invested in their hardware and so has to be pushed very hard indeed to turn to other providers. Without this security Evernote is skating on thin ice when it messes around with the interface like this. Personally, I had no idea how much I actually used notebooks at all, rather than just searching by tags, until they made this change and my workflow was slapped down by the idiotic new single-colum list they decided to impose. Why the hell did they think that it would be more efficient for people who had got used to having a big screen will all notebooks visible at once to have to scroll up and down trying to find the right one? If anyone from Evernote is actually reading this, please consider this point: Serious users of any software do not value change for change's sake.

We want to work efficiently. If we don't like something we will tell you and will appreciate it when you listen. If you have a great new idea than tell us and we'll probably love you for it, perhaps even pay you more.

We remain loyal. But messing around with major parts of software UI is like sneaking into users' offices while they are out and rearranging their stuff. We do not like it at all if you encourage us to work a certain way and then suddenly make that impossible.

We can — and will — take our money elsewhere if you make that a sensible choice. Best mac shadows. It's the developer's communication that's the key for me. I was a loyal and faithful SOHO Notes user through many of their iterations, until it broke with an iOS update and they simply DID NOT REPLY to any of their many users' plaintive questions about whether and when they'd be updating.

So by the time they did reply - maybe a year later - I'd moved to Evernote, even though I like it less. And now this significant layout change WITH NO COMMUNICATION or response to our queries is making me equally nervous.

Maybe time to move again. It felt very uncharacteristic of Evernote to make such a massive and sudden change to their product. I loved the visual notebook layout which displayed information in way that felt very clear to me. I deeply dislike the new notebook view, which feels no better than Google Drive.

I am disappointed both in the decision to make such a change and lose such an iconic element of Evernote as well as in the method of rollout. Like many customers, it took me awhile to realize that this was a formal change from Evernote and that I had not inadvertently made a mistake myself. Please bring back the former view.

I completely agree with everybody here. I don't necessarily want to downgrade to an old version because the new updates are really helpful, but I just don't understand why the Notebook has to be JUST a list view. The folders were visually effective and made everything more accessible and organized.

At least give us the option to switch from List view to Folder view! It's completely taxing to have to scroll through my many many notebooks to find what I'm looking for. Text is small and I just can't help feeling lost. Please bring the folder view back!!!!!! This is really disappointing.

It's making me think seriously about moving to Microsoft OneNote, where visual grid notebooks are not only possible, but you can choose the color of the notebook cover as well. Maybe if more of us made noise about leaving - especially the paying users - there would be more openness to their responses. Thanks for that- your comment inspired me to look into OneNote. This article is pretty convincing, even though the author chose to stay with Evernote for the time being. OneNote appears to offer all the key functionality of EN with the added very cool feature of converting handwriting to text.

And yes, customizable grid notebooks. The only real drawback I see is a problem with importing from EN, but It might be worth some extra work to get away from a platform that just pissing me off at this point. I see I'm not the only one who is sooooo disappointed with the new layout change!

The new list format is far, far less efficient than the grid format. I feel like we've gone back in time with this 'update'. I am amazed we aren't given the option to choose between the list format or grid. You now have four pages of complaints about this change, so I hope you will take this into consideration when you are doing your next update and at least give us the option of returning to the grid format please. Same here, long time, dedicated, paying Evernote user and super disappinted about the new notebook view for all the reason people have described here in detail. Very unfortunate if something like this is done without 'manners' (user testing, giving choices to go back, informing about this change ahead of time etc) Seems like trouble is ahead with this company. Have started to check out Zoho Notebook to use it in parallel for a while, as an exit strategy.

I' so loayal to Evernote, it will break my little digital heart if I have to leave, but what can you do if the dark side takes over. This why I hesitate to upgrade. You're taking the chance they will break something that you loved. Yes, for me this is breaking Evernote, it is no longer workable for me.

I may see if I can download an older version and use while I can, but Zoho notebook is looking good. Am I correct in thinking that Evernote believes that this is an improvement and doesn't seem incline to give to users the option of how they want to view their notebooks. For the life of me, I can't see how anyone thinks this list view is better. I have a big problem with this whole idea. If I have to beg a software company to reinstate a feature that is critical to the user interface. And if the management of the software company is so utterly clueless that they remove critical aspects to the user interface. Then, folks, it is time to move on.

That's exactly what I did and I'm not looking back. I switched to ZoHo Notebook after reviewing a few different software packages.

I do not reward stupidity with loyalty. And over the years there have been several stupid changes to Evernote and quite frankly a clear and shameless disrespect to the user base.

So to quote another dummy, 'Fool me once shame on you - fool me twice, can't get fooled again'. But that's another story. Good luck everyone! I understand people have wishes for the software (we all do), but is really a subscription-cancelling level issue for you?

I'm just curious because to me, while yes Evernote is imperfect, it is valuable service for me and I would not subscribe/cancel based on something like this. Are (were) you a paying customer? Legit curious why this is a dealbreaker.

Yes, it absolutely IS a subscription-cancelling-level issue for me. I have been a paying customer for quite a few years, and the ability to view my items in the way that works best for me is imperative. The grid view feature has been an integral part of EN for as long as I've used it. EN's unwillingness to even acknowledge unhappy users' concerns only adds to the frustration.

Hi all, Stumbling upon it by accident, I really came to love the notebook layout view in word (2004). I used it yesterday to take structured (! That's a first.) notes on each step of an extensive data analysis and this document will be a great help when further processing these data. The feature that's most important to me is the possibility to collapse lines.

This way I can note in 'level 2' that I performed one test or another and put details, graphs and interpretation notes on level 3 and 4 and then collapse the whole bunch so that it only reads the test done and can be 'decollapsed' (?) again for more detailed info. With all sections collapsed I just have a list of all tests performed and this gives SO MUCH overview! (sorry for this detailed description. I am just enthusiastic and I'd like to illustrate my problem 😉 ) The thing is: I want to show my work to my supervisor who doesn't have a mac and therefore.

No notebook view available O.o And without notebook layout. Totally chaotic! I have been googling around and I am aware that there officially is no possibility to preserve mac word's notebook view for pc.

But I so hope that there is some kind of workaround somewhere. Like a reader type program (to be run from my portable HD for instance) or anything. Love to hear any ideas on this! Thank you, both of you. The reason I didn't went to microsoft forums is that I've understood that microsoft has no intention to create this compatibility between mac and pc. For pc there is onenote (a standalone program with this functionality that creates files with extension.one) which won't be released for mac and for mac there is this notebook view (for.doc files) that won't be implemented for pc.

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