Do you use the "Show thumbnails" feature? If no, why not?

Mary Beth Raven  November 13 2008 01:39:48 PM

To the users of Notes 8 and beyond,
Do you use the "Show thumbnails"  feature? it's a button right next to the Open List (plus, as you can see in the tooltip, it has a keyboard shortcut, and it's the first menu item on the Window menu.

Figure: The "Show thumbnails" button


And when you click it, you get something like the following screen, where you can filter by typing the title:



So if you do not use it, why?
Because you just never think of it (cause you' ve been using Notes for 10 years without it?)
It takes longer to find the  tab you want than other ways?
Is it because you get too many of them with the "Do not enter" sign? (A window has to be on top /have focus for at least 5 seconds to get a thumbnail of it-- in future versions we'll fix this),

There are other products that leverage the use of thumbnails and generally they have received good reviews. So if you are not using it in Notes, wht do we need to do to make it useful?

p.s. if you do not like the button taking up space on the tab row, you can turn if off the View menu and unchecking the "Show Thumbnails Button" at the bottom

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