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Thanks Jon. This will be a major selling feature for Evernote.
An alternative existing approach is to add the notes you want to work with to a "Now" tag and put a saved search to the Now tag in your shortcuts. Unlike tabs, this approach allows you to:
1) See at a glance the full title, location, and tags of each note in your Now workspace;
2) Search only the notes in your Now workspace;
3) Have different workspaces for different projects or times of day (by having multiple tags); and
4) Quickly restore a workspace when starting anew (and without having to recall what notes to include).
This approach is limited, of course, to just notes, so I will probably be using the new tabs mostly for different task views and when I need a few notes open for a short time.
Good idea. One thing I forgot to mention in the article was tabs have shortcuts. Open up the shortcut panel and search for 'tab' and you'll see them. I'll had this to an AMA sometime. Cycling through tabs would be cool.
Your mention of coloured tabs reminds me of a thought I've had for a while - it would be nice if there were places in EN where we could label items with a color. This already exists with text, of course. But it would be nice if we could select certain notes in a notebook to either have their names displayed in a different color or a different background color. (Those with many spaces or notebooks may appreciate being able to have those names in color as well.)
Far from essential - it's possible to focus on specific notes in many other ways. But I imagine some people would like the ability to have a visual cue to focus on particular notes. I've sometimes used note titles in CAPITAL LETTERS for this purpose, but color would be much better.
I'd love to see a bit of colour. Tabs, Notebooks and Tags would look great if we could colour them. Great for visually spotting something in the interface.
Think I'm getting to grips with the new Tabbed Notes feature. Am I right that the option to start on the Home Screen is no longer available? It seems now that when I start EN it opens on the last opened tab... Not too much of a problem - just wondering if I'm missing anything?
It should be. I think the setting for new tab is now what it’s called as even when you open EN fresh it will kind of have a new tab. There’s not a separate setting.
1) Dragging a tabbed note into the Note editor, just drops in the Note ID (or something), it would be good if this could drop in a Note Link formatted as per preferences (Mention, Preview etc)
2) Split View - I like using the new Split View in chrome where you can add group 2 tabs into left/right panels. This feels cleaner than using two windows side by side. If Evernote could allow two note editors side by side, or perhaps split the window between Tasks + Note or Calendar + Note etc, that could be useful too
Can you make a Note a tab when using the iPad app or do you have to be logged in online through your browser? If you create Tabbed notes online will they show up in the iPad app?
Interesting. 'Theoretically' you shouldn't be able to open a notebook in a tab, you open a note and the note list appears for that notebook and you can scroll through it. I'll mention it and see if there's a way to include breadcrumbs in the tab but it may get a bit long.
Thanks Jon. This will be a major selling feature for Evernote.
An alternative existing approach is to add the notes you want to work with to a "Now" tag and put a saved search to the Now tag in your shortcuts. Unlike tabs, this approach allows you to:
1) See at a glance the full title, location, and tags of each note in your Now workspace;
2) Search only the notes in your Now workspace;
3) Have different workspaces for different projects or times of day (by having multiple tags); and
4) Quickly restore a workspace when starting anew (and without having to recall what notes to include).
This approach is limited, of course, to just notes, so I will probably be using the new tabs mostly for different task views and when I need a few notes open for a short time.
I like the idea of using tags to create a workspace. Would be nice if tags could have tasks.
Good news; thanks. I just upgraded to 11.9.1 (Mac), which you say is the most current version , but still no tabs.
Try a log out and back in again. If that doesn;t work hang on a little as its rolling out.
This will definitely be useful. First request for change would be to be able to "Ctrl+tab" to move between tabs, like Chrome or Firefox.
Good idea. One thing I forgot to mention in the article was tabs have shortcuts. Open up the shortcut panel and search for 'tab' and you'll see them. I'll had this to an AMA sometime. Cycling through tabs would be cool.
Your mention of coloured tabs reminds me of a thought I've had for a while - it would be nice if there were places in EN where we could label items with a color. This already exists with text, of course. But it would be nice if we could select certain notes in a notebook to either have their names displayed in a different color or a different background color. (Those with many spaces or notebooks may appreciate being able to have those names in color as well.)
Far from essential - it's possible to focus on specific notes in many other ways. But I imagine some people would like the ability to have a visual cue to focus on particular notes. I've sometimes used note titles in CAPITAL LETTERS for this purpose, but color would be much better.
I'd love to see a bit of colour. Tabs, Notebooks and Tags would look great if we could colour them. Great for visually spotting something in the interface.
Think I'm getting to grips with the new Tabbed Notes feature. Am I right that the option to start on the Home Screen is no longer available? It seems now that when I start EN it opens on the last opened tab... Not too much of a problem - just wondering if I'm missing anything?
It should be. I think the setting for new tab is now what it’s called as even when you open EN fresh it will kind of have a new tab. There’s not a separate setting.
Couple of thoughts:
1) Dragging a tabbed note into the Note editor, just drops in the Note ID (or something), it would be good if this could drop in a Note Link formatted as per preferences (Mention, Preview etc)
2) Split View - I like using the new Split View in chrome where you can add group 2 tabs into left/right panels. This feels cleaner than using two windows side by side. If Evernote could allow two note editors side by side, or perhaps split the window between Tasks + Note or Calendar + Note etc, that could be useful too
I’ve mentioned number 1… would be a good idea and of it is there already.
Number 2… many many months ago I think I saw a test for split screen but nothing came of it. Maybe it became tabs. I’ll mention it in the next call.
Can you make a Note a tab when using the iPad app or do you have to be logged in online through your browser? If you create Tabbed notes online will they show up in the iPad app?
Its just desktop, not the browser app as that kind of already has tabs.
I'll mention about iPad and see what they say.
Another thing, the tab name(s)
When the tab is a note it's fine.
When it's the task list it's fine, also home is fine.
But if it's a notebook, the tab is named what ever the note that is selected in that notebook.
I think the tab sould be the name of the notebook.
Interesting. 'Theoretically' you shouldn't be able to open a notebook in a tab, you open a note and the note list appears for that notebook and you can scroll through it. I'll mention it and see if there's a way to include breadcrumbs in the tab but it may get a bit long.
You can't open a notebook directly to a tab, but open a note in a new tab, focus on the tab and then choose the notebook from the left panel et voila!
Then if you right click on a note, you can open that in a new tab.
And you can also do that with a space.