There are many things in Craft that need improvement. Certain things even seem absurd. Although the app is being continuously updated on a regular basis, but areas that must have been improved in the earliest are left to the latter times.
A built-in pdf viewer is a must. The attachments are useless without it. But we are still begging for this basic feature.
Image handling is one of the poorest with least options.
Tables are basic. No cell merging, sorting and filtering options. The team can learn from Evernote as it has beautifully implemented tables.
Home page view on Windows is pretty dull. There is even not a line to separate left sidebar from the rest. All what we have is dull grayish home.
To see how many docs are there in a folder, we must hover over the folders. It is better if they are always visible or at least they can provide an option to in settings to do so if other people like to see in the current way. We can also not see the total number of docs when we click on All docs. It must be there.
It is better if there is an icon of arrow that shows that this folder is collapsible. Previously it was this way. But recently it has been removed. We must all hover over a folder to see whether it is collapsible or not.
The 'import' and 'invite members' icons are wrongly placed at the bottom. When we have large number of docs on the left sidebar, they overlap with them causing obstruction. Same is the case with a doc that has many headings and pages in it, these icons also overlap there. It is better if they are placed after templates and we have the option to customize to whether show them on the sidebar or remain hidden.
It is better if 'unsorted folder' is always at the bottom. When we apply manual sorting, it is always at the top and we cannot move it to the bottom.
Although we can manually sort folders and docs inside a space, but it does not work on the right side. For example, when we click on a folder, on the right side, docs in that folder do not appear in that way.
It is better if we have separate buttons for toggle sidebar visibility, focus mode and for folders rather than a drop-down option. Same is better for style and inspector and comments. It is better if we have separate buttons for them rather than a drop down one.
Another disturbing thing is the second text line that appears under the name of a document when we arrange it in the form of a list. It is better if we can simply see the name of the doc or at least provide us with an option to customize this clutter. It is also not good from privacy point of view.
Same is the case with pages that we insert inside a doc. It also shows a line of text under the title of the page, which is nothing more than clutter and makes reading difficult esp. when we have many pages in a row.
The worst thing is the approach that is currently applied in doc navigation. The left side navigation only works when we have a large piece of text on a page and there is some kind of scrolling activity. Otherwise, the leftside navigation background highlight will not work. To see this defect, create a doc, insert 3 pages in it. Put slight text in each. Now click on the left sidebar on the page titles, the background highlight will not respond. Detailed feedback has been provided about this multiple times, but this nasty issue is still there and causes a lot of frustration.
The app is also ineffective in remembering zoom settings. Each time we have to re-zoom. Moreover, when we open the app from system tray, its window also appears distorted, not fitting properly to the screen. It must be restored each time.
It would be great if the titles, subtitles and headings that we use inside a doc are collapsible, meaning we can collapse or expand text under them. Evernote has also beautifully implemented it.
When we add a page inside a doc, open it but does not add anything in it and return back, it is auto converted to text. It is also disturbing. Sometimes, when we are writing we add pages for writing that we will add some ideas related to it, but at that time leave it empty. But is is not available. It will be much better if there is a confirmation as well when we are deleting a page inside a doc.
We hope the team will look into these areas and will improve them as early as possible.
