- #EVERNOTE REVIEWS 2015 FOR MAC#
- #EVERNOTE REVIEWS 2015 PRO#
- #EVERNOTE REVIEWS 2015 CODE#
- #EVERNOTE REVIEWS 2015 WINDOWS#
This UI pattern comes up again and again in #5, #6, #8 and#9 below. Blurring the search field goes against the user’s expectation and demands one extra click.Įvernote app design team LOVES one extra click. The convention for the x button in the text field is to clear the previously entered text for the purpose of entering a new phrase. The user has to click the search field again to enter a new search term. Removing the previous search term “colour” blurs the search field. But what we see after clicking the search icon is this:Ī screen record of Evernote 10. We expect one click of a search icon and perhaps one more to remove the restriction of search within the current notebook. a collection of notes) and then wants to search over all notes, including those outside the currently opened notebook. Imagine we’re seeing a particular notebook (i.e. Evernote 10’s user interface design for this core functionality irritates me quite a bit, however. The beauty of Evernote lies in its ability to search over any kinds of notes you have taken in the past. This section is revised in response to a Reddit comment on this article ( svferris 2020 ).
#EVERNOTE REVIEWS 2015 PRO#
But Evernote 10 demands more than half of the 1440 inch-wide screen of my MacBook Pro to show its content without being cut off. Personally, I often use Evernote side by side with another application.
It feels like a website made more than a decade ago. Ten years on, Evernote 10 breaks it blatantly:Ī screen record of my desktop with Evernote 10, which is not responsive to the width of its application window, cutting off the note content. Responsive design, making the layout flexible with the width of an application window, has long been the norm in web design ever since this design principle was popularized by Marcotte (2010). In the screen shots below, you’ll often see Japanese characters as I’m a native Japanese speaker.References are attached at the end of this article. As I just did in the previous bullet point, I use the Author-Date referencing system in this article, to refer to books and web articles.
#EVERNOTE REVIEWS 2015 WINDOWS#
Evernote 10 for Windows may behave differently, although it shouldn’t be the case if Evernote succeeds in cross-platform consistency in user interface as it claims with Evernote 10 ( Evernote Team 2020). Let me go through these one by one in detail.
#EVERNOTE REVIEWS 2015 CODE#
Code blocks cannot be coloured (and all the colours are gone in the existing notes).Selecting a note with arrow keys does not preview its content.Sorting note titles in the descending order (i.e.Clicking an icon does not show the list of shortcut notes.One extra click for clearing the search field to search over notebooks.Confusing UI for searching over all notes.I take time to list up what I find irritating about Evernote 10’s user interface. It’s because I’ve lost my faith in Evernote design team after learning about Evernote 10’s appalling user interface design. It’s not because of the removal of several features, as heavy users such as Darryl (2020) complain. With the release of Evernote 10 earlier this month, however, I’ve made up my mind: I’m going to migrate all of my notes to another note-taking app. So you can say I’m one of its loyal customers. I’ve been a long-time user of Evernote, ever since 2011, with over 23,000 notes in total. (If you’re not a Medium member, click here to read this article.)
#EVERNOTE REVIEWS 2015 FOR MAC#
Nine sins that Evernote 10 for Mac has committed in its user interface, breaching some of the most basic UI design principles.
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