I understand your point. To me this is a practical solution. When i work with a notebook, the sections are the most important part. The top bar gives a good overview and is easy to use by mouse and shortcuts (Ctrl 1..9). It is also very space efficient in that it takes only space from the tag sidebar. That control already contains data, which will never fit to the visual area anyway. 

Here is a very simple mockup:

I agree. Since switching between notebooks is not a smooth process, it keeps people from using this highest order of managing notes. As for the request i prefer my sections tabs on the top as they are now. Maybe databases tabs could be placed to the left above the tag sidebar, by reducing the height of the tag sidebar. That way tabs for databases and sections could be reached easily.

Not really sure i understand the idea of having subsections. My first thought also was to use hierarchical tags. Still if they shouldn't fit your needs, wouldn't it make more sense to have a database for "writing" on your own and use the sections there as "subsections". Imo, with databases, sections and hierarchical tags CN already offers a great way of managing data. 

This might fit the bill: View Modes

Hi Alex, here is your reminder! :)

Thanks for creating a bug request to this. However i think this issue here should not be closed. This is a "true" solution, since it offers an option for paragraph spacing, whereas the other is a workaround by manually creating empty lines.

It should fit the bill, if Shift+Enter would be supported to create empty lines as MS-Word does.

//since WordPad and Word behave the in same way
I can not confirm. In MS-Word as long as i press Shift+Enter a new line belonging to the paragraph will be added.

After you press Shift+Enter you need to press Enter to create the next bullet list. In that case CN stops bulleting, however. Also rather than having an empty line which belongs to the paragraph i think it is cleaner to have an extra line between paragraphs. For numbered lists this might be different. If the separator line belongs to the paragraph, the numbering will continue, whereas in the other case it would start with one again. Whatever, to pick up on your suggestion: Is this actually a bug? As long as i press Shift+Enter the bulleting should not stop, but add empty lines. Only when i press Enter on an empty line, it should stop.