Compact notes list

54 votes

I would like to be able to scroll over more notes in the middle column when in Notes mode. I don't always have it in my mind what I'm looking for or I want an overview of a certain amount of notes. The wide preview of note content more often than not gets in the way.

Done ui Suggested by: Joonas (13 Oct, '21) • Upvoted: 21 Dec, '23 • Comments: 14

Comments: 14

04 Nov, '21
Stuart
Upvoting this as I use my notes as a project list, and it would be much more useful to see 15-20 notes in the list than the 6-7 I currently get, especially when using templates all the previews look pretty much the same. I only need to see the note title to know what it is.
12 Dec, '21
david obront
yes please make it optionally just a compact single line per note, without snippets or time since last change, so more can be seen and it's a cleaner look i prefer
24 May, '22
Carl
I search by tag and have 53 return, but I can only see 8-9 with lots of space in and between the notes list. I can't find what I'm looking for.
10 May, '23
Josh Merged
In the notes view, it would be good if we could see just the title of the note in the list, not the information in the note.
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12 May, '23
Lucian Admin
"Note title only in the note-list." (suggested by Josh on 2023-05-10), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
11 Aug, '23
Bruce
100% upvote from me! Evernote is a great example of a case study comparison. EV allows controlling the sidebar view, and "List" is one of the options. The default sidebar view in Amplenote is noisy clutter. (I mean, it can be cool and helpful sometimes..but for me...seeing the preview snippet in the Amplenote sidebar is mostly messy clutter.)

If Amplenote can manage to provide this upgrade? That would be a HUGE improvement to the UI (for managing MANY Notes!)
14 Aug, '23
Bryan Massey
I completely agree with this request. The title of the note is titled for a reason, to distinguish it from hundreds of other titles. The ability to quickly scan a long list of titles to pinpoint the desired title will be very helpful.
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13 Oct, '23
John Collins Merged
In the notes pane, I would rather NOT see the note preview. I want more notes to be visible in the pane, each with less detail. For me, I would rather not see the div with the class "preview". Simplenote has a feature like this.
13 Oct, '23
Lucian Admin
"Notes Pane Without Note Preview" (suggested by John Collins on 2023-10-13), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
12 Dec, '23
Johnnyepp
Notes have titles so we can understand what they are, so a view option to only see the title makes sense. Having two more view options would be helpful: Title Only and Compact Preview (half the vertical height as currently). The current view requires far too much scrolling and time wasted. Imagine an email client like this! time wasted galore.
12 Dec, '23
John epp
PWA: Related minor ask is the elimination of the mouse-over expanded detail of the time stamp. It's visually distracting as I scroll down the notes list using two finger scroll on desktop or a mouse. It flashes in and out for no practical purpose. I'm already visually scanning to find the desired note so this pop-up increases cognitive load.
28 Dec, '23
Lucian Admin
Hey everyone! Compact view for the notes pane has now been implemented!
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29 Dec, '23
Josh
Sorry, how do we access this feature?
23 Jan
Lucian Admin
Hey Josh! You can use the note search option in the note pane list to find the option: https://www.amplenote.com/blog/q3_q4_2023_update_graph_view_native_desktop_app_and_more_more_more#____Compact_view_in_the_note_list_pane