Menu Consistency is Needed
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I’ve noticed a few things in the mac app that are fairly confusing to me. They all deal with inconsistencies between various menus.
And let me preface this that I am not a markdown user and as much as I love keyboard shortcuts I only know the basic ones – CMD-b, CMD-i, CMD-f, etc.
- The only way I can find to highlight selected text is to click the ‘Aa’ symbol at the bottom right of the window and click ‘Highlight’
- But I can make selected text Bold from the pop up menu that appears when I select the text or I can right click the selected text and there is a Format option that allows me to Bold the text. Couldn’t these two menus include the Highlight option?
- The only way I can find to add a link to text that says ‘Click me to go to a link!’ that is clickable and will open a website or open another journal entry is to right click the text and choose ‘Link’ -> ‘Add link’.
- I can make selected text Bold from the pop up menu that appears when I select text and I can do other things to selected text from the ‘Aa’ option but neither allows me to insert a link to selected text. Couldn’t these two menus include this link option?
- The paperclip icon at the bottom right of an entry allows one to attach various items to an entry. It is common to think of attaching a link to something in an email, document, pdf, etc. So maybe adding a link to selected text could be included in the paperclip menu?
- Sometimes adding a link is included in Edit on the Menu Bar, as well.
- I had to come online to figure out how to search for a term across multiple journal entries because I couldn’t find that capability in any of the locations that I’ve learned to look for things in DayOne and on mac apps generally. Even the typical CMD-f ‘find’ keyboard shortcut wouldn’t work when I had closed all entries. In fact, I was beeped at in an admonishing manner as if I was silly to try to use such a simple keyboard shortcut.
- After finding the keyboard shortcut that would allow me to search across journal entries and using it, I got a nice Search bubble that appeared out of what is apparently a search icon. (It may be obvious but I have some trouble distinguishing the search icon likely due to the combination of old eyes and the thin black lines with a gray background – possible room for improvement for my eyes and the icon!) The font of Search is quite large and hard to miss. It would be great if that Search bubble would appear when hovering over that icon. Or if icons had hover text descriptions at all.
I think the flow of this feature request is disjointed. I’m cool with it because disjointed is the best way I can describe the theme for the topics of this feature request.
PS: If the proposed solution is markdown or keyboard shortcuts for everything, please provide reference guides in app that don’t require access to the internet to use.
Thank you for considering my ideas and perhaps accommodating my neurodiversity.
- The only way I can find to highlight selected text is to click the ‘Aa’ symbol at the bottom right of the window and click ‘Highlight’
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We appreciate you taking the time to share this great feedback with us, @smartishhome
We have relayed it to our team for consideration :)
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Late to this conversation but I would like to chime in that I too would like a quick link to be able to highlight text from the short form menu. Having to go down to the bottom of the window to the Aa section is tedious when you have to do it over and over and over again.
In tandem, you have a page that lists all the key commands for other shortcuts – but there’s nothing for highlighting text. Is this something you can add?
looking forward to your response and thanks.
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Hello @cworkman221!
Thanks for those suggestions! I have forwarded them over to our team for future consideration. 😊
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