Evernote Links to External Websites not clickable

[sl77 0]

Hi,

why are links to external websites not clickable in notes.

they are not blue either. they are plain text

Does ever note not know what a hyperlink is - Im completely baffled

This is an extremely important basic feature.

if i have 1000 links, manually entering return press after each site, my finger and i will die of old age.

How do i make these website links clickable

thanks

 

 

[DTLow 5,744]

On April 30, 2016 at 3:03 PM, sl77 said:

How do i make these website links clickable

On my Mac, I can add a url to text by selecting the text, right-clicking > Link

[Dave-in-Decatur 4,006]

In the latest version of EN 6 for Windows, I find that if I type or paste in a URL beginning with http:// it turns blue and becomes a live link as soon as I put a space or an end paragraph after it. Putting punctuation after it (period, comma, parenthesis) does not create a link. If I highlight such a non-link URL, I can't make it a link with Ctrl+K; I have to use Ctrl+Shift+K, bringing up the Edit Link dialogue, with the URL showing in it. IOW, somehow the program thinks it's a link, but doesn't make it live until you "edit" it.

Also, URLs must begin with http://. If you just put in www.evernote.com, it will not be a link, nor can you make it a link by simply highlighting it and pressing Ctrl+Shift+K; nor can you invoke the Add Link dialogue with Ctrl+K and type or paste in a URL without being sure that you have left the http:// at the start of the dialogue.

So I'd say this function is present in a rudimentary way, but is not nearly as user-friendly as it might be, particularly in not allowing punctuation marks to create a link from a preceding URL, and in requiring http:// to be present at the beginning.

[CalS 5,308]

Out of interest, if you put a space in after pasting the link, then backspace and period, is a link created?

[Dave-in-Decatur 4,006]

Yep. Same with other punctuation too. It seems very odd; I suppose it's one aspect of the (widely perceived) inadequacy of EN as a sheer word processor. But for a research tool (as opposed to a sheer word processor) this seems like something pretty essential to fix up, and presumably not that hard: if a space or new paragraph can do it, surely punctuation could be made to do it as well.