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Brief Summary
The "Quick Notes" feature comes up with command-I, if nothing else has mapped command-I. Let me uninstall, kill, or unmap it.
Details:
I don't even know why Orion has this feature. It's a dumb feature, I doubt many use it, and it's frustrating.

Many sites, including this one, map cmd-i to "italics." Many other sites do not, e.g. forum.opnsense.org. And of course most news sites.

When I'm editing text in one of those sites that has a rich editor but doesn't map cmd-i, and I want italics, I naturally hit cmd-i. And get a stupid "Quick Notes" page. Closing doesn't return me to my previous page, but rather to the end of the stack, so it's inconvenient.

Do not rabbit hole on that. The problem is, I don't ever want Quick Notes; if cmd-i isn't mapped by the web page, don't do anything with it. Or at least give me a configuration option for that.

  • Vlad replied to this.

    Vlad In my opinion, it would be great to have the ability to change shortcuts for your preference. For example if you don't need something you could turn it off or if you need something but you don't like the shortcut, you are able to change it as well.

    • Vlad replied to this.

        Vlad But that would override the behavior when the webpage grabs Cmd-I for italics. So that won't help. What we need is the ability to turn off the Cmd-I default of "Open a new notes window."
        My suggestion would be Cmd-Opt-I, simply because websites don't choose that. But a bigger suggestion would be, allow us to disable the Quick Notes hotkey.

            Vlad changed the title to Change Notes shortcut to Cmd-Opt-I .

              I think that there is no need for an inbuilt note feature in browser. If someone needs it, there are always extensions or native editors.

              But on a broader level, there should be something like a polling feature in this forum, which can help in deciding such issues (like whether there should be a notes feature).

                a month later

                Brief Summary
                <What does your feature entail? What is it for? How will it affect existing workflows or user experience?>
                My feature entails having an option to disable the quick notes feature in Orion (by pressing cmd+i)

                Details:
                There is currently no way to disable quick notes in Orion. It would be useful for users who don't want this feature to have the option to disable it in settings. It can be specifically opt out, so users who explicitly don't want quick notes can disable the feature.

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                • Vlad replied to this.

                  Anatomy5803 What do you mean by Quick notes, and how does it interfere with your workflow that you'd like it disabled?

                      Vlad Like I stated in the original report, Orion "quick notes" can be opened by pressing cmd+i . It can interfere with my workflow when I'm editing documents and applying italics as the keybind is the same (cmd + i). However, it's worth nothing that Quick Notes doesn't get enabled when I'm using italics. It could be preferable then to change the keybind to (cmd+ctrl+i) as noted in a previous report.

                      • Vlad replied to this.
                          Merged 3 posts from Option to Disable Quick Notes.

                            Anatomy5803 fyi all Orion menu shortcuts can be changed through native macOS settings including this one. We will nevertheless change the default shorctu combo as per prior request.

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                                Edit: The original message of this post was to merge my initial ticket with this thread. I didn't see that it was already merged 😄

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                                  Cmd-Opt-I is already the shortcut to open developer tools, also true of at least Chrome and Safari. This thread has taught me how to change shortcuts so if this releases I'll be aware, but I think this will confuse a number of technical people?

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