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 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. One extra click to send feedback, and it’s modal.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.) 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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