Klaus

When clipping from stackoverflow, I noticed that indentation is lost, making code-examples hard to read.

In the case of python or explanatory ascii art graphs, the result is outright broken, since indentation is significant there.

E.g. when trying to clip https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47792846/what-is-ours-and-their-while-doing-git-rebase/61339092#61339092:

The browser reports the indented lines as "<span> content</span>"  with a single space in front. Adding more spaces would cause correct indentation, so it isn't a pure CSS issue. However, I cannot judge whether the stored note contains incorrect indentation, or whether the representation sent to rendering component contains an incorrect simplification.

1 hour ago, gazumped said:

Don't know if the installed app shortcuts have been applied in the web account.  There are some lists here -  [...]

Sadly, they haven't. Some basic hotkeys (like Ctrl+B) are available, but there doesn't seem to be any documentation on which ones are.

When hovering the mouse over a GUI element, the associated hotkey should be displayed. This approach would allow "learning by doing" of work processes, without the need to repeatedly read documentation for basic interactions, and has become a defacto standard for desktop software, and is even available here in the Forum editor.

Otherwise, it would already help to have a list of hotkeys available.

On the long run, it would also help a lot to have configurable hotkeys, since the Evernote team cannot possibly predict all keyboards people are going to use. As an example, GMail has had for years hotkeys such as "Ctrl+Alt+[" which cannot be triggered on a German keyboard. Only "modifier keys plus default 26 latin letters" is safe for even Western keyboard layouts, with "Modifier keys plus number" already potentially failing to be registered correctly across keyboards, depending on the detection method.

Sadly those solutions wouldn't fulfill the "new note visible as a browser tab" constraint :( 

Is there any other option to quickly add new notes? I usually need to create notes, that are subsequently open as browser tabs. Support for the web-client has recently grown more important for me, as I am given a Linux-PC at work.

My workflow usually is:

• Create new note.
• Push evernote URL to another device (e.g. home-pc) with Pushbullet.

This works reasonably well with Google Keep, but that solution suffers from how easy it is to accidentially close a note and from Google Keep not updating tab titles. It works less well with evernote, where the crucial "create new note" step isn't quite as fast.

On 1/27/2019 at 4:00 AM, Hayoun Lee said:

All my LaTex code that are in svg becomes very hard to see in dark mode. (Mac/ Mojave)

SVG support please!

Rather, support for transparency in graphics is needed. I've seen the problem with Kindle ebooks too, where chapter headings, that are displayed a graphic, look badly off with any background color other than white.

A solution may be tricky though for the devs. It is obviously appropriate to invert the colors of an equation in dark mode, as it would be for black&white graphics in Kindle apps, but there is no reliable way to distinguish such a graphic from a grayscale photo. Or when embedding equations as pre-rendered raster graphics, some software may inappropriately bake in sub-pixel rendering. This gets even worse, when taking into account the possibility of having colored subexpressions in equations.

A possibility may be to use a basic heuristic: If the image consists predominantly of two grayscale values / a dark gray scale value on transparent background (e.g. black and white, dark gray and white, or black on transparent background) it is probably appropriate to adjust or invert the color in dark mode. The user would however need the ability to explicitly flag images for inversion / not inversion, when the heuristic decides wrong.

11 hours ago, Steve Escott said:

I am not sure I understand your comment re the <pre> tag - With Alternote, I see a full menu of formatting functions, allowing backgrounds and borders. Am I missing something? See attached images.

That was just me finding only "Formats > Blocks > Pre". I didn't expect it under "Text box", since I usually associate the term with free-floating elements in Office software. 

On 7/12/2018 at 9:45 AM, Steve Escott said:

Thanks to johndoe7, the problem seems to be solved - if you don't mind using Evernote web. He mentioned the Alternote Chrome add-in.

While certainly powerful, the "webclient only" restriction is a big "if". The Chrome extensions lacks feedback about available hotkeys compared to the official client (). Even the code-block feature itself isn't really solved. All the Chrome extension is, is provide direct access to the "<pre>" tag in all contexts, but it doesn't assign it backgrounds or borders; At this point one might as well just apply a monospaced font.

An officially supported solution in the official deskotp client would be very much appreciated.

I wanted to express my support for this feature request. Currently code blocks are just limited. In my case, I usually run into the issue when trying to use paragraph intentation to create "description list" style structuring of a note.

In Summary the code bloch feature fails to provide useful behavior in these cases (pasted from evernote).

The issue has cropped up today for me with Wikipedia, which now also uses SVG for displaying images.

Worse, the SVG may not have a file extension such that the file attached to the clipped note cannot even be opened without first renaming the file.

Example:

• Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power
• Equation image  https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/4151eb304b73e790d0e4855d8948c8e0c4263cf2 (no extension)