donmcleman

It would be a huge boost to productivity if you could switch on the highlighter and leave it active to highlight any new selection that you make – as you would do in the 'real world' when you pick up a highlighter and hold it in your hand. The need to keep going back to the toolbar to select the highlighter tool really slows down the process of highlighting the important points in an article (and I was stunned when I first started using Evernote that this simple method wasn't already in place). I've tried using the Ctrl + Shift + H shortcut – this can hardly be convenient for most users. Anyone who uses a mouse will have selected the text to be highlighted with the mouse, their hand will still be on the mouse so clicking the icon in the toolbar is quicker to activate the highlighting. There is no value here to using a keyboard shortcut. The only people who would find this keyboard shortcut faster are those people who select a word using the keyboard (and I would think they are few and far between…).