Hi @astro46, I think there is some confusion regarding how the Projects plugin works.
YesYouKan and Projects are two different plugins and their inner mechanisms are different.
The appearance of the side panel on the right is unrelated to the YesYouKan note creation.
When you enable "Projects" for the first time, the side panel appears.
Of course the panel view can be both toggled and resized.
Take a look at this screenshot:
However, in the next release I will try to simplify and improve the user experience further.
Maybe I will add toggle options in the toolbar and change the corresponding icon as well.
Thanks for trying the plugin, inputs help a lot.
Oh as a side note, the plugin offers 3 different views, of course the kanban one is labelled as such, to distinguish it from the others.