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Whynot use ctrl+/ or command+/ ?

I type a thousand sentences and it reminds me a thousand times that there is a "/" shortcut.

It always gets in the way when I'm typing.

What design is this?

I use Evernote a lot for writing text and now every new line starts with a grey slash. This is really insane!!! Evernote is focussed more on their own obsession with (new) functionality than on just letting people do their work.

For what it's worth, I've opened a ticket with Evernote Support to see whether/when it will be removed (or at least turned into a feature that can be disabled via the Note settings), and I'll post back here once I get a response.

... I'm afraid it's 'Press "/" to insert an element' or me. If I can't disable this function, I'm afraid I'm going to have to quit Evernote. Surely you ran feedback sessions before foisting this on us?

I too really hope the backslash to insert function is removed or made optional. Ctrl+/ would be more logical. Using backslash in normal everyday writing is very common and is surely more of a priority for the majority than the dubious need to insert some doodad every second sentence. Why is there a whole simple keypress dedicated to this. Very annoying with all the popup windows it throws up every time. Evernote! Please let us type!

I agree completely. Ctrl+/ is already in use to access the keyboard shortcut dialog, but Alt+/ should be readily available. This was so easy to get right, and they didn't. BenSpoo seems to want to push people to become familiar with new features, and the method is to have them in your face very frequently. But once they're familiar, they could recede into the background, where we'll still know how to find them. The AI Edit button that pops up on the mere selection of text (or images, which can't even be edited by their AI) is worse, IMHO; and it is aggravated by the occasional popup provoked by nothing at all inviting us to try out AI Edit.

I am a professor and use Evernote as a lab notebook, where I am keeping track of the steps in my data processing using the university's computer clusters. These computers use the Linux operating system, which has lots of use of '/' to mark directories. It is a disaster now when I want to put in something like

Not sure what terminal type you are using on Linux, but with Terminal on Mac, it's faster to copy and paste the directory path and less prone to typos and you'll also avoid the slash command menu while you are at it.

I'm finding this frustrating and difficult to deal with as well. It's highly distracting to have the slash menu popping up while I'm in the middle of typing. It's disrupting my workflows considerably even when I'm simply writing something in plain English, and it's 10x worse when I'm writing anything technical that involves paths (e.g. filesystem paths).

This is partially because it's not just that it's popping up that's a problem, it's also that it automatically starts filtering slash menu options by any typed input following a slash, and then automatically inserts your "selection" if you press enter immediately after that typed input. So if whatever you typed happens to be short enough to match any of the options available through the slash menu and you press enter because that was the last thing you wanted to type on that line, then instead of typing in what you intended and adding a new line, you instead end up inserting some random element!

The slash command is one of the big new features announced by Evernote this year. Honestly, I don't think they would create an option to completely disable this feature. It doesn't make logical sense for them unless the vast majority of users ask for it (do you think that will happen?).

This is killing me... I have a slash in just about every line of typing. I'm glad that I'm able to turn the inline hint now, but having the SLASH at all is a MAJOR inconvenience. Doing this slash without thinking and getting a new document created by the time I figure out what happened almost makes this unusable form.

PLEASE (PLEASE) add an option to turn this (feature?) OFF.

Hi. We're mainly other users here. For a more timely notification please send a request to feed...@evernote.com (you get a 'thankyou' response but nothing further) or raise this with Support - - (be patient for a response here)

Another reason to get a possibility to adjust spacings on user's site...

As I read the headline, I hoped to get smaller spacings in note list lines. I'm loosing hope to get a compacter display. ?

I really don't understand this. If I had a workshop which adjusted where all my tools were because somebody else thought they needed to be elsewhere, I'd be rather annoyed. It's the same with Evernote. By all means, introduce a way of changing the line spacing and then let the individuals change if they want - but to automatically introduce it as the default setting and to then have your previous lists/notes shown with this new spacing is awful.

I share similar thoughts. This recent constant change of how my notes look and sometimes function (blue internal links anybody?, press '/' to insert an element?, AI Edit, AI Edit, AI Edit) along with A/B and beta testing on users and sometimes buggy releases has been somewhat of a turn off for me personally.

Thanks Boot17. I suppose my only reprieve will be to use a different program. I fully agree with your words on the beta testing and buggy releases. What I cannot understand is how an organisation can consider it acceptable to change the default view of something and expect that the change is going to be fine with everybody. If there was a work-around - in this case having a line spacing pulldown item/default - then fine. But to just change something without having the ability to revert is rather arrogant.

I do feel that typing the above is an entire waste of time in that it will achieve nothing. I would like to be proven wrong, but I expect that Evernote's ears are closed and that the default line spacing will remain without the ability to change via a dropdown and without a tickbox to allow that setting to be your own default.

You're probably right, but we don't know whether Evernote staff read these forums regularly. They do receive feedback here: feed...@evernote.com. They don't respond meaningfully, but it's not meant to be a conversation starter, only an intake port.

I was wondering what was wrong with my EN installation on windows until I found this thread. Get this on Windows, Android and web now. I am not fine with changing the default view for everybody without any notice to or choice by the user. I sent a note to feed...@evernote.com.

I have the same issue on Mac, and it makes my regular use of long lists much more difficult to use and see my lists. I agree with @landymangk in this thread: if you're going to introduce a meaningful formatting change and make it the default, at least give the user a way to adjust it. I'll have to find a way to downgrade and turn auto-updates off again (I had to do this several years back too when every new update brought new bugs and changes, but I thought those days were behind me. It's sad that Evernote seems to be returning to its old ways again).

I'm afraid that Evernote has done this 'upgrade' imposition too often. I'm still annoyed at the 'Press "/" to insert an element' fiasco. Introduced without the option to remove until enough people complained and then the option to remove appeared. Imagine if enough people in the eyes of Evernote hadn't complained. We'd now be suffering this annoying reminder everytime that we clicked 'enter'. Going back in time, the choice of fonts shrunk to a few - all in the name of keeping things uniform across platforms. ie, a reduction in choice was imposed on us.

I was starting to be on my way out due to the v10 UI Revamp from January/February. The 'Press "/" to insert an element', AI Edit Popup, Files Feature, Green to Blue internal links, increased line spacing and probably more (that I can't remember off the top of my head) just confirmed it for me.

However, I need a stable Evernote to be productive. Probably 90% of my usage is for productivity work and 10% usage is for archive/file storage. I'm sure if those numbers were flipped it might be a different story for me. The constant churn, bugs, and beta and A/B testing on users gives me a feeling of loss of control and unproductiveness and some of the recent changes just aren't for me. I feel like I'm on shaky ground and I keep wondering what is going to change or break next? Maybe it works for their bottom line and they should do what is best for them, but I have to do what is best for me too.

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