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I am a software developer and system administrator, and I get frustrated by Evernote's insistence on creating a link every time I enter text that includes a period with text on either side. In my experience, such text is more likely to be:
- a filename
- a hostname that rarely hosts an HTTPS? service
- an IP address which almost never has an HTTPS? service (and which I would not want to access by IP address anyway)
- an abbreviation
When an https: link is created for these, it is a broken link that I have to manually remove. I do this at least 10 times for every real link I want to type or paste in. (I usually prefer making proper hyperlinks with text showing anyway)
It would be much less frustrating if the heuristic only created a link if the text ended with an actual top level domain (TLD). I realize there are a lot of TLDs around now, but picking the top 10 or 20 would probably be fine, considering one can always create links manually if necessary.
Failing that, it would be nice to have the option to simply disable this bug/feature.
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On 11/12/2021 at 12:58 PM, tinwheeler said:
To create a list with green check boxes create a list with no boxes, hold the mouse down and highlight the list. It will turn blue. Click on the blue button at the top and choose Check boxes. Your list will now have green check boxes beside each item. To add an item in the middle of the list highlight the list in blue again and add your item and it will keep the green check box instead of a checklist.
It does seem somewhat more stable than before. Adding a new element does not immediately revert to checklist, but it doesn't create another checkbox for your either. If you enter the checkbox shortcut ('[]'), it adds a column of checklist buttons in front of your checkboxes (though you can back that out with undo).
I'll count that as a marginal improvement.
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12 minutes ago, PinkElephant said:
You will very rarely find any app that exports the note (= container) and the attachment (=content) on one go into a pdf. To export a whole note with all parts, you can use the HTML export function.
That's definitely not my use case. I don't think I have ever encountered a PDF with embedded attachments, so it is not something I would expect.
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13 minutes ago, PinkElephant said:
You want to export a pdf attached to a note, or the note itself as pdf ?
I at least am talking about exporting a note as pdf. I have to say it is hard to imagine an application that allows attachments that would not allow you to then access/export those attachments. Sounds like one of those write-only memories.
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Going on four months since this was asked. I also miss this feature.
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19 minutes ago, John Canning said:
I've found that if I have one item in my list that does not have a checkbox, then the list does not get turned in to a checklist.
Interesting!
When entering items using the [] shortcut, having a previous item or items without a checkbox does not prevent the conversion of the entire list to a checklist, but I agree that it does prevent the autoconversion on reopening.
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2 hours ago, Mike P said:
To be fair to EN it is only checkboxes at the beginning of a line it wants to convert to checklists.
Except that the beginning of a line is where checkboxes naturally go!
2 hours ago, Mike P said:Since responding to your other post I have found that if you use a character other than space before the checkbox that works even in a bulleted list. If you can really be bothered you can even make the text white but a better option is probably to choose as unobtrusive characrter as you can find!
Yes, the vertical is probably the best option--until EN decides that it means something else! 😉
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I should add that while turning off the strikethrough would be nice, it would still leave me frustrated. I often use bulleted lists with an occasional checkbox. Currently the whole thing will get converted to a checklist.
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I am frustrated by Evernote's agressive conversion of checkboxes to checklists. There are plenty of case where checking checkbox does not imply 'done' and does not warrant crossing the item off the list. It's a nice feature for one use case, but it is pretty annoying for all the other use cases. Even when making a checklist (say for a work procedure), I find the strikethrough redundant and unhelpful. The checklist serves as a record of operations, and I actually want to be able to read it even after the boxes are checked. I might very well wish to edit it for the next time I perform that procedure, and the strikethrough interferes.
Probably the best solution would be to have an option on the checklist to turn off the strikethrough.
In the meantime, I have seen that some people have found some workarounds that prevent their checkboxes from being turned into checklists. I like to use bulleted lists with various indent levels and add checkboxes to those. Putting a space before the checkbox was offered as a workaround that prevented the instant conversion of the whole list to a checklist, and that still works, but the next time I open Evernote, even those are converted to checklists.
Does anyone have a workaround that will stick?
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I don't know if it is a feature of the latest update, but while the space [] hack works while entering data in a regular bulleted list, the list is still converted to a checklist the next time I start up Evernote. It appears that Evernote is trying very hard to convert every instance of a check box to a checklist with its specific behavior (strikethrough when checked). This is very limiting. There are many cases where a checkbox does not imply done. It might identify the presence or absence of a feature.
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On 4/4/2019 at 10:55 PM, jefito said:
For the record, I see this as mostiy fixed in the latest beta for Windows (6.18.2.8380 (308380) Prerelease (CE Build ce-62.3.7750)); at least I wasn't able to reproduce the scenarios I've seen listed here, except for the one where one is adding new rows to the end of a table..
On your recommendation, I just downloaded 6.18.2.8380. I find that it works in one case out of 6 I tested, so I wouldn't say "mostly fixed."
- Entering straight text and hitting enter or automatically wrapping: Works (and probably has for a long time)
- Entering bullet list: Fails
- Entering numbered list: Fails
- Entering todo list: Fails
- Entering a new table row (with 'Tab'): Fails
- Adding a horizontal rule: Fails
Are there any input modes I missed?
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I have been told here that this bug is fixed, but I find that it is not fixed in 6.8.1.5382.
Hitting enter on the last line of a scrolling note causes the cursor to disappear offscreen. Only after I type another character does the window scroll.
This may be true only when entering a list of checkboxes.
Disable automatic broken link creation
in Evernote for Windows Requests (Versions 10.0 and above)
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OK, it's a little more selective than I let on, and since they tried the same solution I suggested, I guess I should be happy, but it sill misfires all the time.
Oddly, it does not think underscores are part of a domain name, so some_name.com links only name.com. Still broken.
Of course this is not the only application that does this, and it annoys me in all of them! If I actually want a link in a document, I am usually pasting it from a browser, and it comes in with https:// etc. Not everything on the Internet is a web site.