Steve Thiel 0 Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 is there some way to change the size of the checkboxes in notes that I create? It irritates me that I can prepare a list in 10-point font, or 8-point font, but I always seem to get 12-point checkboxes in my lists. If there's no way to do this on a note-by-note basis, is there a way to change the standard size of the checkboxes? Thanks! Steve Link to comment
Level 5* gazumped 12,021 Posted July 25, 2016 Level 5* Share Posted July 25, 2016 59 minutes ago, Steve Thiel said: is there some way to change the size of the checkboxes in notes that I create? It irritates me that I can prepare a list in 10-point font, or 8-point font, but I always seem to get 12-point checkboxes in my lists. If there's no way to do this on a note-by-note basis, is there a way to change the standard size of the checkboxes? Thanks! Steve Nope, sorry. A checkbox is (AFAIK) a checkbox. What you see is all you got. Link to comment
Steve Thiel 0 Posted July 26, 2016 Author Share Posted July 26, 2016 14 hours ago, gazumped said: Nope, sorry. A checkbox is (AFAIK) a checkbox. What you see is all you got. Thanks! I'm holding out hope that somewhere someone knows of a configuration file or something where the checkbox properties are specified. Link to comment
Level 5* jefito 5,598 Posted July 26, 2016 Level 5* Share Posted July 26, 2016 A tough one, I think. I took a note and exported to HTML, and then to .ENEX (the Evernote ENML format file). In the HTML, the checkbox is implemented as a .PNG bitmap file, one for each checkbox instance in the note (and those can be either a checked bitmap or an unchecked bitmap). So 10 checkboxes in my note, variously checked or unchecked resulted in 10 bitmaps in the generated HTML. In the ENEX file, a checkbox is represented by an <en-todo> element with a "checked" attribute, which is either "true" or "false" (dunno whether they support a third state). so <en-todo checked="false"/> or <en-todo checked="true"/>, but no notion of size. Now how they handle such things in the note display is another thing: they could represent the todo as a character (e.g. the Unicode BALLOT BOX characters: see http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2610/index.htm) that could use size information present; I think that they did something similar awhile ago, and you could actually cut/paste those characters around. Not sure why this changed. You could also implement something like that yourself; just copy and paste from this: ☐☑ , and you're on your way, though you would then lose any of the Evernote special todo handling: search, Todo Check all/Uncheck all, etc. All of which is to say that I don't know of any secret configuration for this (it would probably be a registry setting). You might want to add a request in the Product Feedback section of your favorite Evernote client, where users can vote it up to show interest. Link to comment
Steve Thiel 0 Posted July 26, 2016 Author Share Posted July 26, 2016 Thanks, Jeff, for looking in to this, and for such a clear explanation for what's going on. I think I understand why Evernote went this way -- a couple of years ago, people were pleading for larger check boxes because the small ones were too error-prone on some devices. (I might be the only person in the world who wants smaller checkboxes!) I am guessing Evernote chose to make the checkboxes graphics rather than characters so that the boxes would be larger even when the text in smartphone environments was small, and I certainly can't fault them for responding to user requests. Link to comment
Level 5* jefito 5,598 Posted July 26, 2016 Level 5* Share Posted July 26, 2016 No problem. It's all mostly guesswork on my part, with a little detective work and fuzzy memory thrown in... Link to comment
nohb 27 Posted July 27, 2016 Share Posted July 27, 2016 Moved this over to the Product Feedback forum. Link to comment
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