Notes 6.0.0 Appends Category to Title Making Title Unreadable

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The Basics

  • Nextcloud Server version (e.g., 29.x.x):
    • 33.0.5
  • Operating system and version (e.g., Ubuntu 24.04):
    • Archlinux
  • Web server and version (e.g, Apache 2.4.25):
    • 2.4.67
  • Reverse proxy and version _(e.g. nginx 1.27.2)
    • none
  • PHP version (e.g, 8.3):
    • 8.3.31
  • Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Yes / No):
    • Yes
  • When did this problem seem to first start?
    • It just started
  • Installation method (e.g. AlO, NCP, Bare Metal/Archive, etc.)
    • Bare Metal
  • Are you using CloudfIare, mod_security, or similar? (Yes / No)
    • No

Summary of the issue you are facing:

In Notes, I always size the note title so it displays without being cut-off in the space provided. This has always worked fine. Today when I view my notes, the title is ellipsized and the category is appended at the end of the title.

Appending the category makes the space available insufficient to display the title.

How do I get rid of the category display – it was never there before?

Steps to replicate it (hint: details matter!):

  1. Open nextcloud notes
  2. Look at the title with the category appended and both ellipsized and less than readable
  3. That’s it.

Log entries

None relevant, just the old bcmath already loaded issue somewhere in the daisy-chain of php configs:

{"reqId":"Jkm48RsLBhWynIUCzhob","level":3,"time":"2026-06-10T05:52:34+00:00","remoteAddr":"192.168.6.224","user":"david","app":"PHP","method":"GET","url":"/nextcloud/ocs/v2.php/apps/notifications/api/v2/notifications","scriptName":"/nextcloud/ocs/v2.php","message":"Module \"bcmath\" is already loaded at Unknown#0","userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:151.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/151.0","version":"33.0.5.1","data":{"app":"PHP"}

Nextcloud

Please provide the log entries from your Nextcloud log that are generated during the time of problem (via the Copy raw option from Administration settings->Logging screen or from your nextcloud.log located in your data directory). Feel free to use a pastebin/gist service if necessary.

None - bcmath provided above

Web Browser

If the problem is related to the Web interface, open your browser inspector Console and Network tabs while refreshing (reloading) and reproducing the problem. Provide any relevant output/errors here that appear.

This may be helpful, Firefox 151.0.1, at least there is a Notes error, though may not be relevant. This is the only error shown in console, the second message is a warning:

Content-Security-Policy: The page’s settings blocked the loading of a resource (media-src) at data: because it violates the following directive: “media-src 'self'” notes
Layout was forced before the page was fully loaded. If stylesheets are not yet loaded this may cause a flash of unstyled content. node.js:416:1

Web server / Reverse Proxy

The output of your Apache/nginx/system log in /var/log/____:

No errors:

[Sun Jun 07 00:48:54.764198 2026] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 414:tid 414] AH00163: Apache/2.4.67 (Unix) OpenSSL/3.6.2 PHP/8.3.31 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun Jun 07 00:48:54.764241 2026] [core:notice] [pid 414:tid 414] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/bin/httpd -D FOREGROUND'

Configuration

Nextcloud

The output of occ config:list system or similar is best, but, if not possible, the contents of your config.php file from /path/to/nextcloud is fine (make sure to remove any identifiable information!):

{
    "system": {
        "datadirectory": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "logfile": "\/var\/log\/nextcloud\/nextcloud.log",
        "default_locale": "en_US",
        "default_phone_region": "US",
        "knowledgebaseenabled": true,
        "apps_paths": [
            {
                "path": "\/usr\/share\/webapps\/nextcloud\/apps",
                "url": "\/apps",
                "writable": false
            },
            {
                "path": "\/var\/lib\/nextcloud\/apps",
                "url": "\/wapps",
                "writable": true
            }
        ],
        "trusted_domains": [
            "localhost",
            "2pi.mydomain.com",
            "192.168.6.111"
        ],
        "overwrite.cli.url": "https:\/\/2pi.mydomain.com\/nextcloud",
        "htaccess.RewriteBase": "\/nextcloud",
        "passwordsalt": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "secret": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbtype": "mysql",
        "version": "33.0.5.1",
        "dbname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbhost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbport": "",
        "dbtableprefix": "oc_",
        "mysql.utf8mb4": true,
        "dbuser": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbpassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "installed": true,
        "instanceid": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_from_address": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_smtpmode": "smtp",
        "mail_sendmailmode": "smtp",
        "mail_domain": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_smtphost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_smtpport": "25",
        "maintenance": false,
        "maintenance_window_start": 6,
        "memcache.local": "\\OC\\Memcache\\APCu",
        "app_install_overwrite": [
            "issuetemplate",
            "holiday_calendars",
            "calendar",
            "contacts",
            "groupfolders",
            "files_rightclick"
        ],
        "theme": "",
        "loglevel": 2,
        "filelocking.enabled": true
    }
}

Apps

The output of occ app:list (if possible).

Not relevant

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First of all, it doesn’t make the title “unreadable”; it only makes the visible portion shorter, since there’s naturally less space available when the category is displayed on the same line as well. :wink:

Workaround: Drag the sidebar wider with your mouse, and you should have about as much space for the title as before.

There doesn’t seem to be an option to hide or disable the category, so you’d probably have to modify the code yourself. Alternatively, you might be able to achieve something with custom CSS, although I’m not sure.

True, but now it is, and it seems to be a deliberate design decision, most likely because the developer thought it would be useful to have it there.

Obviously, UI design decisions like that always come with certain trade-offs, and it’s impossible to please everyone. But if you have constructive feedback or ideas on how it could be improved, feel free to open an issue in the corresponding GitHub repository: Issues · nextcloud/notes · GitHub

Bummer :frowning: But thank you for your reply. I’m getting old, so the readability issue surrounds having the entire word to read to make up for less than perfect vision.

If you have the side-pane open it lists the categories and allows you to click to filter by category. There is no real benefit to appending the category to the title for me. If I resize the title pane to stretch it to make both the title and category visible, then I’ve lost the real estate for the note itself. That’s critical on a laptop.

Can whether the category is displayed or not be made a setting in Note Settings? That just seems like a good way to handle preferences. That gives the user a choice, and honor the axiom that “A new feature to one is a bug to another unless it can be turned off.”.

I’ll play around with the window sizes and see if I can find a balance that works – but that really doesn’t seem like an optimal solution.

At least I know I wasn’t seeing things :slight_smile:

By the way, it was definitely a deliberate decision: feat(ui): indicate category in "All notes" view by aronovgj · Pull Request #1840 · nextcloud/notes · GitHub

That said, I agree with you, at least partly. I’d say that if a note doesn’t have a category assigned, there is indeed limited value in showing “Uncategorised” in the list.

As for whether categories need to be shown in the list at all, I can only speak for myself, but I personally didn’t miss that feature before it was added. However, I can also see how it might be useful for some users.

Either way, someone has already opened a feature request to make the category label optional, so I guess we’ll have to wait and see whether that gets implemented: https://github.com/nextcloud/notes/issues/1888

Thank you for the link. I went ahead and added a reference to this topic to the bug report. An option to enable/disable display of the category for the Show All notes listing would be fine.