AndrewB 4 Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Can we get an option added to the Mac version Preferences to turn off auto-correction? I admit the feature is handy on mobile devices and I may be in the minority, but typing many technical non-words in my notes, I end up having to correct the auto-correction often. I'd love to see an option to turn it off in the Preferences->General tab.Thanks, Link to comment
eatrocks 0 Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 I second this request for an evernote-specific autocorrect switch!! Besides technical non-words which also plague my experience, I also want to abbreviate for speed, and autocorrect bites me quite frequently. I don't want to turn it off entirely at the system level as I do appreciate the autocorrection in email, word processing and other applications.In addition, names are often auto corrected. I was typing a last name, and ended up with this... SMS cou I have no idea what that got auto corrected from so my note is totally useless and that person will be left out. Link to comment
DMonst 0 Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 Assuming this problem hasn't been fixed, then I'd like to add that I hate the auto-correct (using OSX) for tags too! Link to comment
Eli-T 1 Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 Agreed. I use this application for taking technical notes. If Evernote is correcting them as I do I might not notice and I can't trust my notes later. This makes the tool no longer fit for this purpose. Link to comment
roustem 2 Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 Please! I often use Evernote to write technical documentation and when describing Terminal commands Evernote keeps converting '--' to '—'. Link to comment
bjorntore 1 Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 Adding insult to injury, Evernote autocorrects from Norwegian to Swedish spelling of certain words! :-) This issue seems to have gotten much worse with recent updates. Pretty please: allow us turn of the autocorrect in Evernote. The alternative is quite frankly to stop using Evernote for writing documents. Link to comment
ScottLougheed 1,316 Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 Please! I often use Evernote to write technical documentation and when describing Terminal commands Evernote keeps converting '--' to '—'.This is a global Mac OS thing, not an Evernote thing: System Preferences->Keyboard->Text->Use smart quotes and dashes Link to comment
Thurber 2 Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 Hm... I'm curious to know why this is a global Mac OS thing. For example, a text editor app I use called Chocolate will not format "--" as "––". Note that I have my smart quotes and dashes turned on. However, when entering hyphens into textedit it will turn the two "--" into "––" automatically. (I also converted everything to plain text to make sure and the smart dash "––" remained) From this little experiment it seems like turning off/on smart dashes and quotes would in fact be possible from within an app. Please let me know where I'm going wrong if I'm off-base. Link to comment
ScottLougheed 1,316 Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 The app can choose to disregard global OS settings. Chocolate will not conform to your OS settings, Microsoft Word will not conform to your OS settings. These applications override the OS setting with their own. Pages, Evernote, sparrow mail app, and many others will simply take up the preference as set at the OS level,It is up to the developer to choose. Looks like Evernote has chosen to follow the OS setting. Not sure why some developers choose one way over the other. Link to comment
mahony 0 Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Thanks for the pointer to the global Mac OS settings. However, this autocorrect issue has only recently become a problem in Evernote on OSX. I use Evernote to record code and command-line arguments all the time, and I only recently started seeing the smart dash corrections. So, either OSX has changed the default global autocorrect settings, or Evernote has changed the way it conforms to those global settings. If the latter, surely it would be easy to include an option in the Evernote preferences to override autocorrection? Link to comment
allpinkynobrain 0 Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 So the first request for this feature was five years ago? Someone's not listening to their customers... I use Evernote to take meeting notes, and recently I've noticed that Evernote has started making some "interesting" autocorrect choices. I've turned off the MacOS autocorrect, and it seems to have gone away (I can better determine what I meant in my notes, from the ahem, questionable, spelling, whereas before it was quite difficult following what was often a very odd choice of word). Link to comment
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