wphall 17 Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 Hello- I've noticed everynote seems to have a nasty habit of turning all text that starts with "-" into an indented bullet point. This feels very much like MS Word's drive to make all formatting decisions for the user. This isn't horrible on a desktop (its not great either), but is really terrible on a mobile device since the indented bullets take up about 1/2 the screen. Is there a way to turn this off on desktop or mobile devices? Its a huge annoyance. Link to comment
Level 5* CalS 5,284 Posted November 30, 2017 Level 5* Share Posted November 30, 2017 There is a setting in options in the desktop versions. Windows at least. Haven't seen a setting in IOS. Link to comment
wphall 17 Posted November 30, 2017 Author Share Posted November 30, 2017 Hmmm... Good to know. Where you are finding it in settings. I'm using the Mac native app and couldn't find it. Thx! Link to comment
Level 5* CalS 5,284 Posted November 30, 2017 Level 5* Share Posted November 30, 2017 It is in the Note section of options in Windows. Need a Mac user to help if it isn't there on the Mac, sorry. Link to comment
wphall 17 Posted November 30, 2017 Author Share Posted November 30, 2017 Wow! Nothing even remotely close to that level of control in the Mac client. Bummer, this is really irritating. I'll post the question in the Mac forum. Maybe there's a section in the client I don't know about. Thanks for the help! Link to comment
Level 5* CalS 5,284 Posted November 30, 2017 Level 5* Share Posted November 30, 2017 You are welcome. Good luck. Link to comment
wphall 17 Posted December 7, 2017 Author Share Posted December 7, 2017 Hi Again- I was able to turn off the auto bullet in the Mac client (far less options than the windows version), but now its also doing this in iOS version. Is there a way to turn off auto formatting/bulleting in the iOS version? I couldn't find it in settings. Just sort of a reality check question: Is it just me, or with the limited screen size of a mobile device, why does evernote think it would be a good idea to indent bullets automatically and loose roughly 10% of an already limited screen? I use an iPhone SE- Maybe all the engineers are on phablets Thanks! Link to comment
Level 5* CalS 5,284 Posted December 7, 2017 Level 5* Share Posted December 7, 2017 5 minutes ago, wphall said: Is there a way to turn off auto formatting/bulleting in the iOS version? I couldn't find it in settings. Not that I've been able to find. There is a bullet on the #+= keyboard. Issue is, depending upon your default font size it may not look the same as the desktop generated bullet. Doesn't eat any extra space though. FWIW. Link to comment
wphall 17 Posted December 7, 2017 Author Share Posted December 7, 2017 Thanks for the tip! Sort of an annoying "feature". Wonder why they thought this would be good (and of all the things that need fixing, they focused on this?). Oh well. I tried and I really appreciate your help and suggestion. Thx! Link to comment
Level 5* CalS 5,284 Posted December 7, 2017 Level 5* Share Posted December 7, 2017 7 minutes ago, wphall said: Thanks for the tip! Sort of an annoying "feature". Wonder why they thought this would be good (and of all the things that need fixing, they focused on this?). Oh well. I tried and I really appreciate your help and suggestion. Thx! You are welcome. Not sure that EN focused on anything, I think that bullet is just a part of the standard IOS keyboard. You could create a feature request for a non first level indent bullets option, though I doubt much would happen based upon the other things they are focusing on. Link to comment
popechild 0 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 Did this just change? I don't remember Evernote ever auto-formatting minus (-) keys to bullet points before on iOS but now it's doing it and it's making me want to drown a small puppy in the ocean. Is there some way to disable this new "feature" in iOS? I understand trying to provide shortcuts for bulleted list-making, but did they really force it on everyone without a way to disable it for those of us who hate it? Link to comment
Phil Brown 0 Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 I agree. Searching for a fix for this every two months is infuriating. I don’t think Evernote needs to make it a “focus.” It simply added a feature that some of us would like to be able to turn off. I’m not a programmer, but I can’t see that needing a whole team. For those offering quick fixes, they help but the fixes are still inadequate. I type on the same notes between computer, email, and iPhone. On email and computer the dash works and on iPhone it doesn’t. This means my notes look like the following: - point 1 - point 2 • point 3 - point 4 • point 5 Link to comment
Level 5* DTLow 5,737 Posted February 10, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted February 10, 2018 On 2017-12-23 at 1:23 PM, popechild said: I don't remember Evernote ever auto-formatting minus (-) keys 10 hours ago, Phil Brown said: I agree. Searching for a fix for this every two months is infuriating. I don’t think Evernote needs to make it a “focus.” It simply added a feature that some of us would like to be able to turn off. I disabled this feature in Settings > Notes > Advanced Editing Link to comment
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