Evernote 5.8.6

[Tadeo Lentz]

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)

I'm on a Mac which should be essentially the same as Windows desktop. Several months back they implemented a new UI that added white space everywhere, but I haven't seen anything new since then. Maybe other Windows and Android users can speak up.

I just updated to v. 10.84.3 on Windows desktop, and don't see any difference in spacing. I took a screenclip from a note and put it up against a screenclip from then new update, and there was no difference. @SpacecoastWalt, could you post a screenshot so we can compare?

I submit there is a difference. I really couldn't tell in @janndk's post but it was more noticeable in @Boot17's post with the text highlight. I also submit that I would never have noticed if it wasn't pointed out to me. Not to say that the change is ok, but maybe they were trying to slip it under the wire. I don't believe the update text mentioned it. I really don't get this movement to increased white space. At least also provide a compressed option.

Seems you have splitted the lines by a which makes every line a seperate section of text.

If you type at the end of a line, the section is not broken so that the lines will be shown with lesser space.

Thanks. That's definitely more space than what I see (also in v. 10.84.3; see screenshot below). I fear this may be another of the things they roll out to selected users at first. Supposedly that should be to collect feedback, and supposedly strong negative feedback should cause them to rethink it. Email feed...@evernote.com with your experiences and complaints. I'd avoid "You're completely destroying my work with this useless garbage" language and focus on facts and details. If you have any screenshots from an earlier time to put up next to the current ones, that would be the best way to make your point.

First time I've ever commented in Evernote forum that I remember, although I'm a user since 2008 with almost 11k notes. The sudden change from single spacing to what looks like 1.5 spacing without the ability to change it or opt out seems like a step backwards. So many things I love about Evernote. The inability to choose between single spacing and 1.5 spacing is not one of them.

In Typography, the spacing between lines of text is called leading. I too recently noticed an increase in the leading, and I don't like it. I want it back the way it was, or better yet, let me set the leading how I want it. Here's what I'm seeing now, too much leading:

I would also really like this change to be reversed, or to be given control over line spacing in my settings. I use Evernote as my primary word processor (mainly on Windows 11) and frequently organise my documents around line breaks and paragraph breaks. Now the line breaks look like paragraph breaks, and the paragraph breaks are so large as to look ridiculous!

Based on a 4/23 response and a 1-2 week timeline, we could see this as early as May 7th (end of 2 weeks since the 1 week timeline hasn't happened); provided the "week or two" is an actual measurement of time and not a figure of speech.

Just adding my feedback as another user who is disappointed in the apparent loss of single spacing between lines, without any way to customize back to "how it was." I use Evernote routinely with both Mac (version 10.85.4-mac, at present) and Windows (version 10.86.8-win, at present.)

Now, I don't have that choice, and I note it appears to be the same in this forum comment as well. If I keep typing long enough to make a paragraph, it will wrap the text to keep this second line tight to the line above it, but if I hit return, it will automatically space it like a paragraph.

Not only it this annoying and unacceptible - it you print long notes, now you're wasting more paper and ink and more resources. Not environmentally friendly at all. Why won't they leave things alone!?

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