Not sure if it’s just me, but the forward slash “/” shortcut to open up the Universal Coupler when editing a card is not working on my iPad or iPhone.
I know there’s the (+) shortcut that we can use in Editor Toolbar, which is fine for mobile as I’m using my fingers to type anyways, but on my iPad, I often like to use keyboard only and not having the “/” functionality breaks up that workflow slightly. I’ve checked my settings and definitely have “/” assigned to open up the Universal Coupler so not sure why it’s not opening but would be super useful to have this functionality again, particularly for iPad.
In cases where we just wanted to continue typing and intended to use the “/” as an actual slash, we could use the Escape key as we do on MacBook/desktop. Or for those that want to keep it as it is where it doesn’t trigger the Coupler to open, the Universal Coupler shortcut could be left unassigned in the settings.
I’m using version 3.0.8 on both iPhone and iPad for reference.
I’ve seen a topic where Supernotes devs mentioned that the current behavior is intended (it might not be the case), but anyway I think it can be improved.
Imo, the key combination to open the universal coupler should be a local setting that does not sync (customizing the key combination for each device/browser is not that difficult), and just as I can close it with escape key, it should also be able to be closed with the backspace button, which is available in mobile devices. I believe this would make the experience with the universal coupler more consistent across different device types.
I tried changing the shortcut to a few different things and it doesn’t seem to work. I’m using an iPad with an external keyboard and the ‘/‘ character would be ideal but it doesn’t seem to pick up any.
Seems like this is still an issue, I can’t get the universal coupler shortcut to work on mobile. I also agree with @wldh that being able to set different shortcuts per device can be useful, since keyboards on phones have different symbol locations and might be easier to use a different one on my phone than the one i use on my computer.
The + shortcut is useful on mobile, but sometimes you want to be able to open it from the keyboard mid-text without having to reach so high on the screen.
Hi @ariccb, are you using a physical keyboard with your mobile device?
We intentionally disable the keyboard shortcuts when using a virtual keyboard, including the Universal Coupler key (even though it’s customisable), since you have no Esc key to quickly dismiss the UC popover.
I feel like no esc key is not a concern at all though, because you can just touch outside of the UC and it goes away, which is really intuitive. Being able to get the ability of using the shortcut for the UC on mobile would be great
This is why we have the bar on top of the virtual keyboard to easily open up the Coupler. Is there another reason a hotkey specifically would be more ergonomic for you on mobile?
specifically when i’ve been editing the formatting of a note, and the “+” button isn’t visible anymore - it requires two taps to get the + menu open. If mobile was able to customize the Coupler shortcut individually from the desktop app, i could set the mobile shortcut to / (default) which provides a really great muscle-memory enabled shortcut to opening the coupler. (I use > as the Coupler shortcut on my computer to enable quickly set a new parent for the current note by double tapping >> quickly)
