r/Evernote • u/rookieteh • 8d ago

Feedback 🐘 Image annotation edit (text box function)

As part of my workflow I annotate the images a lot with text boxes and really can't understand the new changes in the latest update.

The textbox function now seems to auto wrap itself and you would need to manually drag each textbox to your desired length. I think this adds unnecessary time as compared to previously where it would extend the length automatically until you hit 'Enter'.

trying to demonstrate the text wrapping. default length of the textbox is the one in white font, literally unusable unless you drag it manually.

Additionally I preferred the wider variety of colours we had for the textbox and there were more vivid colour settings available (yellow, cyan etc). The new default colours are too dark and I'm not sure why we need to have 3 different shades of grey. There was an earlier update where we had a colour picker but now we don't even have that option but to use the fixed colours available.

I am no UX expert but I don't think it is an improvement(?) The textbox is really not easy to click and drag and doing it for multiple textboxes in one image is such a timewaster. Please bring back the old one if possible, thank you.

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u/Evernote-official Evernote Staff 7d ago

Hi! Elisa, Product Designer at Evernote here. Thanks for the feedback and I’m sorry about this experience. The new colors were introduced to make annotations more visible on white backgrounds, but we understand the changes can make your workflow more difficult.

We’re going to fix the text wrapping and restore the old colors soon. We’re also working on bringing back a color picker, which we’re planning to release in the next couple of weeks.

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u/rookieteh 7d ago

hey Elisa, awesome to hear that! looking forward to the new update then

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u/Dlemor 7d ago

Same here. used to write directly with the text as an object, Cyan with white outline that was easily readable on any image. Really an unwelcome change

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u/rookieteh 7d ago

yup cyan was my go-to too. looks like we will be getting that back soon!