(Archived) Chrome extension autocompletes with "shift" (Shouldn't)

[mrgoerend 89]

Hitting shift while typing the name of a tag in the Chrome extension autocompletes whatever tag is currently popped up in the list. That's frustrating because it's rarely selecting the correct tag when I hit shift so then I have to delete the tag and re-type it.

I've begun the process of teaching myself not to hit shift while typing in a tag, but I figured I'd let you guys know so you could fix it.

[gbarry 2,658]

I see the issue you're having with shift, but just out of curiosity, why are you hitting shift? Do you capitalize your tags? I'm a regular "tab" hitter once I've arrow keyed down to the correct autocomplete, but I don't think I ever hit shift.

Just wondering. Questions like this help us appropriately design interface.

[mrgoerend 89]

I do capitalize some tags. I also use : in a lot of my tags. I'm a bit anal about my tagging: http://dl.dropbox.co....33.10%20PM.mov

That's a video I shared with teacher friends about how I use tags.

[jefito 5,588]

Having capitalized tags is fine, but tag searches (and Evernote searches in general) are case-insensitive, so it's not necessary to capitalize your searches. Continue on in the process of retraining yourself.

Related post to this one: http://discussion.evernote.com/topic/20824-bug-chrome-web-clipper-treats-shift-key-as-tab-or-key/

[mrgoerend 89]

Having capitalized tags is fine, but tag searches (and Evernote searches in general) are case-insensitive, so it's not necessary to capitalize your searches. Continue on in the process of retraining yourself.

Related post to this one: http://discussion.ev...-as-tab-or-key/

I use a colon in the majority of my tags, which is mainly where my use of shift comes from.

[jefito 5,588]

Ah, right. I've tended to stay away from punctuation in tag names (except for a small number of '_' or '@' prefixed tags, and noe other exception, noted below). That may be a superstitious holdover from my early experience, where tags with punctuation seemed to cause some search difficulties.

The other exception tag, "C++" (a common one in my Evernote world), which causes the auto tag matching in the clipper to hiccough a bit when it encounters the first '+' if it's not the first tag being entered, in fact, 'C++' doesn't even appear in the list of suggestions: on pressing 'c', I get a list of tags containing the letter 'c' (except for 'C++'), headed with 'Music', and with 'cusic' in the tag control (with 'usic) highlighted) then when I hit the shift key, the suggestion list disappears, and i see 'cusicusic' in the tag control (with the final 'usic' highligted), then when I hit '+' I get 'cusic+' as the proposed tag name. Usually I just back through to the 'c', and if I hit '+' at that point, I see 'C++' in the ist, and I just select it.

So yeah, I do agree that the tag entry could be cleaned up a bit...

[Jeff510 95]

I do capitalize words or letters in tags. i just like how it looks, and in some cases, the tags are proper names that really should be capitalized.