New Update changes "-" to Bullet Point

[jakelmitchell 2]

Ever since the newest update to Evernote, all of my dashes ("-") are changing to bullet point lists. I DESPISE THIS. Using dashes in my lists has just been something that I've done my whole life, and this makes it incredibly annoying to have to use bullet points or double dashes just to make a list. If I wanted bullet points, I would simply select them in the formatting section.

I imagine my one complaint will not make this change, but I need to make my grievances clear.

[RadStu 0]

I'm having the same issue.  

- I frequently type quick lists with items like this
- I don't need them to convert to bullet points
- I can't figure out how to stop it

When I take Gazumpeds advice, I see in the desktop version of Evernote the Tools > Options > Note > Note Editing Options area

That lists options like:'

• Automatically format text elements
• Start a numbered list with "1." or a bulleted list with "#" 
• Insert an unchecked checkbox with "[]" or a checked checkbox with "[x]"
• Insert a horizontal rule with "---" or "***"  

So, that looks pretty close.  

What I don't see is something like: "Start a bulleted list with "- " which is what's happening.  

Anyone have any thoughts on how to resolve this for Jakel and I ? 

George

[someone who cares 1]

I totally agree. It was aggravating enough to google for the solution and important enough to log in here to replay. Feels like unchecking the "Start a numbered list with "1." or (...)" thing does the trick. At least partially. It disables whole function completely. Maybe its unfortunate consequence of some design choice early on, tho I would still expect it to be better implemented into options, so we don't have to lose numbering due to this option.

It would be quality change for people like us, who just make a lot of fast bullet-point notes. Being able to write without being thrown off the clarity of the list by monstrous dot happening before frail letters every time we just want to make s fast addition to the list. If someone knows something we don't, thinking "why those guys have this problem, its so obvious to solve"... Just please, comment. 

PS/Afterthought: changing the font might helps a bit with clarity, but stills devours the space, so it wont work for me, but might work for u.

[gazumped 11,667]

On 12/8/2017 at 5:55 PM, jakelmitchell said:

I imagine my one complaint will not make this change

Hi.  The complaint shouldn't be necessary - there's a setting you can change to switch that off.  Not sure exactly what it looks like in your current version,  but here's a recent screenshot (not mine - apologies to whomever I stole it from...

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[aleksg 2]

I have a similar issue: Although I like the auto-list functionality, I hate bullet characters. Is it possible to retain the other auto-list characteristics (i.e. the hanging indent) but use a hyphen or en-dash character instead of a bullet character?

And why does every list sub-level have a different leading character? That's totally unnecessary and just creates a distracting visual mess. Is there any way to customize the list styling?

Googledocs has a great solution for this. If I start a line with a dash it automatically creates a list with leading dashes; if I start a line with a bullet  character then it will create a list with leading bullets. 

[gazumped 11,667]

Hi.  Please don't post twice on the same issue - I hid your other post in Organization.

On your questions - there's no option (that I'm aware of) for different characters without

     > making a manual list -
     > using tab or spaces for indenting and
     > your character of choice for the bullet

(like that)

Different levels of list have different styles of bullet - that's common practice.

You could raise this as a Feature Request to see whether a number of other users would like this option - more votes might convince Evernote to take a closer look...