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27 minutes ago, jefito said:

In the time it's taken for you discuss it here, you could have gotten it working with AutoHotKey. And someone here would have been happy to help if you had any difficulty... *shrug*

I'm not saying that it's not a reasonable request, but the likelihood of it changing soon is probably pretty low, and this would save any mental friction over using Ctrl+G.

I already replied to you and told you that it makes more sense to try to remember to use ctrl-f than installing a tool, learning it just so I can use F3. Frankly it's an absurd idea to install a whole app just to use a key in another app when that app already has a shortcut key. And don't worry about my time.

58 minutes ago, dcon said:

F3 is already in use. As is almost every key combination! As I remember, there's well over 100 different accelerators. (With a note in focus, F3 jumps you up to the tags and lets you start adding a tag)

Yes we know it's in use. The whole discussion here is about it being oddly mapped and we can't change it.

27 minutes ago, Dave-in-Decatur said:

Well ... that works in Notepad and Wordpad, but not in MS Word (at least not in Word 2010; I'm not up to date). It works in some other programs, but not in all. So Evernote's choice to use F3 for something else (set focus to the tag field of the active note) is not unreasonable. Using Ctrl+G to go to the next instance of a search term is, though--I'm with you on that.

As a good user experience practice and when developing a new app, one starts by assigning common keyboard shortcuts to the actions that are common to many users in common apps. For example, in Chrome and Firefox and probably other browsers, F3 is used for going to the next search occurrence.  Browsers are heavily used every day. Of course not every app is following this standard. Maybe some app developers are not familiar with this concept and create their own confusing shortcuts. As for MS Word, it's a very old app and appeared first in 1983 so probably before common shortcuts were adopted.

How many Evernote users use the focus on the tag field vs  doing a search? I bet search is a lot more common. I never use the tag feature myself. So it makes sense to assign F3 to search and the tag focus to some other shortcut. F3 is also easier to hit than ctrl-g. 'Tag' even has the letter 'g'.
Anyway, good apps allow users to assign their own shortcuts. Evernote should add this feature.

6 hours ago, jefito said:

But you can use AutoHotKey to do this, local to the Evernote app. It's free...

I think I will remember to use ctrl-G. A lot simpler.

It customary in Windows apps that F3 finds the next occurrence of a searched word. It does not work in Evernote. It's ctrl-G. I don't know why they choose the letter G. The letter does not exist in 'search' or 'next' and therefore it's not easy to remember. Plus there doesn't seem a way to reassign the keyboard shortcut. I don't want to use the global shortcuts because they hijack shortcuts for any app.
 

8 minutes ago, jefito said:

Except that there are other link types than "http://"; "https://", "file://", "ftp://", "mailto://" etc, are all valid URL prefixes (see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL). Beyond that, I'd be hard-pressed to say that the ones here look anything like web links (sorry, @dcon) or any other kind of URL, and it's already been shown that its behavior is pretty inconsistent, so it looks like a feature that needs some developer attention because bugginess.

I suppose you could ask for an option to turn it off, but that's just one more option hiding among many, and only @CalS knows them all.

 

OK I meant those as well. I wasn't going to list them all. Yes it can be another option. It's a functionality that I didn't ask for or expect so there needs to be a setting to turn it on/off. I don't care if it's onemore option. Users don't deal with options in every Evernote use.

1 hour ago, dcon said:

Smells like "I think that looks like a web link so let me help you out"...

Evernote should not think it's a hyperlink unless there's http:// in the text. This is a classic case when software tries to be helpful,  but becomes buggy and annoying.

4 minutes ago, DTLow said:

Confirmed.    I think it's the .component. part triggering this

So is it a bug?

47 minutes ago, jefito said:

I'm not seeing this in the Evernote for Windows application. Is that what you're using? Please post a sample filename that doesn't work for you.

side-nav-outer-toolbar.component.file

2 hours ago, DTLow said:

Where are you pasting from?

I know if I paste     "sample.file"   there's no hyperlink

sample.file doesn't but a name like side-nav-outer-toolbar.component.file does.

If I paste a filename with an extension, Evernote converts the file to a hyperlink. Then I remove the hyperlink, Then if I hit Enter, shift Enter or the spacebar, it adds back the hyperlink! 
How to stop Evernote from doing this?

4 hours ago, gazumped said:

Hmmn.  I'm on a Windows machine today,  so I hopped into a basic account to try this out - and I can confirm that clicking the blue link,  or using the 3-dots menu starts a blank white window that expands to fill two monitors (!).  I seem to remember there being a 'logging in with Google' bug flying around a little while ago and this seems related.  I'll report it* (using my Premium account) and see what the Support team say..

Before I clicked (tried both the blue link and the 3-dots menu) - this is one corner of a big screen. Excuse the moire patterns.

Afterward...

Clicking the green elephant - you can just see it in the second picture at top left - allows me to close the window.

* Rather than confuse everyone about the two accounts I'll just flag this post for the admins and ask them to report the bug - the details are all here anyway.

I am using two monitors and there's no way I can find to get out of this blocking top window.
Anyways, I don't need this Google Drive thing so I just hit ctrl-z after pasting the link and it reverts to a hyperlink.

I am Basic and I get it. This is what it looks like.

 

When pasting a link to Google Docs, the hyperlink gets converted to a Google Drive link. There's no option to switch this option which some don't like. Ctrl-Z converts it back to a link. Thank God. The Google Drive box has a "Connect to see more" link which open another Window on top of Evernote. The Window open slowly. It's blank and the close button is outside of my screen. I am totally blocked from using Evernote and I have to kill the app. A totally buggy and annoying feature feature.

The editor is just bad when dealing with nested lists. I just spent another 15 minutes trying to make it work now. 
When I pasted my list in Google Docs, it displayed the way it should. The best solution for me was to put a link to the Google Doc in Evernote's note. This works perfectly for me.

On 1/17/2020 at 9:38 PM, RavBoy said:

I tested this for you on my PC and EN successfully retained the bullet formatting (see attached). I'm using EN-Windows v6.18.4  and have MS Office 365 subscription on my PC Win10

Well.. it doesn't work for me. All the bullets get moved to the left. The bullet lists in Evernote is pretty bad once things get messed up. It was impossible for me to fix the nesting and I had to fix it in Word. Still, when I paste it in Evernote, the list's format is not retained.

2 hours ago, gazumped said:

So is this an installed Word or Office application or the online version?  My installed Word (Office) application copies pretty accurately into a note.  Have you tried restarting your system?  Is it fairly easy to repair the indented layout?

2 hours ago, gazumped said:

So is this an installed Word or Office application or the online version?  My installed Word (Office) application copies pretty accurately into a note.  Have you tried restarting your system?  Is it fairly easy to repair the indented layout?

Installed MS Word 2016. My system was restarted today. I think Evernote doesn't understand every kind of bullet format it sees. I can fix it manually but it's a nuisance because it's alive document and every time there's an update, I have to manually indent all the nested bullets.

8 minutes ago, gazumped said:

Hi.  Well - I copied a bulleted list and I seem to have the same formatting in my note.  Might be a question of where you're copying from,  or how complex your nesting is...  - Given that Evernote also supports bullets at various levels,  can you recover your layout easily?

I don't understand what you mean where I am copying from. It's from a simple 2 page document in MS Word. There's only one level of nesting. Just like I showed in my example.

When I copy all of a nested bulleted list from MS Word and paste into an EV note, I lose all the proper indentation. All the bullet digits and letters are all left aligned in the same position. 
Is there a way to not make this happen? I want the list to show the same way as in Word. Properly indented. Every nested bullet is indented further to the right.
Also when I manually fix the indentations, it changes the letters to digits but this is not a big problem now.

Example after pasting in Evernote:
1. Some text
a. should be indented to the right but 'a.' is right below '1.'.
2. some more text
a. some more text
b. some more text

I am selecting the url and want to remove formatting. The typical context menu doesn't show but just the minimal one show up.

I have a note with a list of hyperlinks. One of them has extra white space above it. I am unable to adjust the line height or right click on it to get the context menu which has the remove or simplify formatting options.

When rightclicking on a hyperlink, I just get the small menu with copy/remove/edit menu. I need to remove the formatting from the hyperlink? Why can't I get the full menu which has the remove formatting and simplify formatting!?? The full menu already has a hyperlink option which has the copy/remove/edit sub menu!

13 minutes ago, DTLow said:

Is there any consideration for technical limitations or funding for development costs?

>>My workaround is to select all the notes, export them into an enex file and open it in a text editor and let the editor find it in a split second.

Does this work with embeded documents; pdfs, images, office/iwork documents, ...?

In my backups I maintain an html export on my Mac.  
It's also searchable but thats via the Mac index process.

 

Not with the enex format. I am on Windows. I can export into a single or multiple html files and the pdf files will be exported as pdf files. Then I can use File Locator Pro to search through text, pdf and Office documents. It's a commercial product which I purchased. I can't live without it and use it on daily basis in my work. It's very fast and very capable. It can also build an index and use indexed search. You're on Mac so I guess this app won't help you but I think there are similar Mac apps.

Only EverNote guys can explain why they haven't implemented search within words.

5 hours ago, CalS said:

Pray tell what technology does that?

A program is as smart (or as dumb) as the programmer who programmed it. I am a software engineer. How would I have created Evernote's search functionality? Search is a very important feature for documents. A note is considered a document. I will have two search implementations. One index based and one isn't which supports regex, boolean, DOS expressions and so on. I can make the default one the indexed one. The user has the option to make the other one the default. If I am smart, I can let Evernote decide which one to use based on the number and size of the user's notes. If Evernote can return result results in less 2 second or less in scan search mode, maybe I'll make the scanning search the default. Imagine I had a note with a password I entered 2 years ago like airplane123. Today I remember and I am certain that there's a password that had 123 in it but I can't remember the full password. I search for '123' and get no results back. I hate you Evernote!
My workaround is to select all the notes, export them into an enex file and open it in a text editor and let the editor find it in a split second. Well darn it, why can't Evernote do the same thing?? Because it's using an index search as its only search method and it doesn't give the user any other choice to search inside Evernote. Well that's dumb you say.

 

11 hours ago, Don Dz said:

I may give your program a spin sometime (though Windows 10 search and Google Desktop are plenty for my needs, and are free), but my observation when doing searches is that other programs seem to benefit or take advantage of Windows indexing if they are using the file system.  I would have to delete the indexing files to get results like I used to get, since I use indexing most file based searches are very fact on my computer. 

I do sometimes use a web browser if I export everything as an html,  but not often since I tend to work mainly with most recently changed notes.

Maybe I had a bug before, but I would say 3 minutes is not a stretch without indexing, at least with 96 GB  worth of files on my storage drive alone.

Searching across all your drives vs Evernote few folders and files are comparing apples with oranges. Evernote should be able to use non indexed searches and get results in a split second. There's no excuse at all. Some engineers over there thought searches must be indexed for good performance. The average Evernote user doesn't have a number of notes that will make a search take seconds.