For compliance, this is needed for efficiency in my reporting and other daily tasks. Having to take a detour to use the right rail context menu and find the notes feature, it is an interruption to the flow of daily tasks.

As administrator of Adobe Acrobat Sign, a user group has asked me about the disappearance of this functionality. It may seem insignifcant at first glance, but especially if users work in tandem, the option to inform each other effectively via the notes-functionality is crucial. Now, each user has to select each line item, then check to see if there even are notes. As Michelle wrote: this is a major downgrade for sure. I urge Adobe to reconsider and will issue a ticket to discuss this as well.

Agreed, lack of visibility of which agreements have a note attached has eliminated our at-a-glance ability to ID which agreements have finished internal processing. Determining whether an item has a note now requires 3 clicks for each agreement: (1) select the agreement, (2) click "See More" on the Actions list, and (3) click Add Note to view whether the note is empty or not. I used to be able to ID a note was present just by scanning the list of agreements! For anyone using the notes feature in volume, this is a major downgrade.