Keyboard Scratch Pad Note

[Mark Stothard 2]

Keyboard Shortcut for new scratch pad note, similar action to Ctrl + Alt + N

allows user to take down very quick note and decide what to do with it later

[Mike P 1,823]

4 hours ago, Mark Stothard said:

Keyboard Shortcut for new scratch pad note, similar action to Ctrl + Alt + N

allows user to take down very quick note and decide what to do with it later

Why does alt + ctrl + H not cut it?

[Mark Stothard 2]

Sometimes you just want to scribble something down, perhaps a name or a number, and then decide later what you want to do with it, hence, scratch pads.

To use Evernote scratch pads. You have to open the app? Click on your homepage click on the scratch pad.

Yes, you could create a new note, using the keyboard shortcut

[Mike P 1,823]

1 hour ago, Mark Stothard said:

To use Evernote scratch pads. You have to open the app? Click on your homepage click on the scratch pad.

Well yes you do have to have Evernote open in the background but alt+ctrl+H is a global keyboard shortcut which will open the quick note wherever you are on your system and place the insertion point ready to start typing.

 

[agsteele 1,868]

You can access the scratchpad by clicking the Evernote helper in the Windows Tray. One click and the scratchpad is open. At least that's how it was when I abandoned the Helper as I wanted it to open the application rather than the scratchpad.

[Boot17 670]

Isn't the Quick Note from the Windows System Tray (or the Mac toolbar) a different scratchpad from the Scratch Pad widget that displays on the Home Page? I think what is being asked here is to be able to have possibly multiple Scratch Pad widgets and that you could start a new one of those with a global keyboard shortcut.

But I think because there is already a (different) 'Quick Note' already accessible via a global keyboard (as noted in comments above), it wouldn't make sense for Evernote to also make it so that you could add data to a new Home Page Scratch Pad in addition to the current Quick Note. Perhaps the two features (Quick Note and Home Page Scratch Pad widget) could be better unified or something. Or perhaps it works better to have them separate and distinct like it currently is. I don't know -- I don't really use either of them all that often.

[agsteele 1,868]

Multiple scratch pad widgets are a Professional plan feature.