u/Sandy_W

Samsung "Notes" app

(New to this sub, tried r/Android but auto-removed, this sub suggested. Edit: helpful link to move it for me also helpfully removed all newlines.)

I've been using a Samsung A25 for a couple of years now, very happy with it. I use its "Notes" app a lot. Scratch pad, project notes/supplies lists, stuff I should remember but can't any more about cars, etc.

When I got this phone, Notes was a simple text memo app. It worked great. The store I bought the phone from even ported all my old notes to it. However, the app soon got upgraded to a full-fledged WYSIWYG word processor. Most of the added features are helpful. I now have section headings in larger font and bold.

However, it's gone overboard. It randomly decides that something I'm typing is a web link, and forever more it's in blue with an underline. I don't think it's going to make me replace the phone, but it is pretty annoying. Today's example, I'm typing in:

PVC Pipe: 1/2" grey conduit: 2x 90° elbows

and it decides that the _1/2"_ part is a web link. Now, if I focus on that for any reason, it gives me an error because it's not a valid web address. No shit, Sherlock. If I want to change that to 3/4" conduit, I have to focus on 'grey' and backspace to delete everything in blue.

Is there any way to turn off the "Create web links from random text" function? Failing that, is there a simple note-taking app I can install that will import all my current notes?

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u/Sandy_W — 5 days ago
▲ 317 r/Ships

Identify an invisible ship?

Okay, a couple of days ago I posted a picture of a shipping accident, and people identified it. One helpful reader even showed me how to use images.google.com to do it myself. I've done that with a couple other 'Oops!' pictures, but I'm not getting anywhere on this one. The picture is all over the internet, apparently it's popular as an example of why your order is sometimes late, but none of the websites I visited actually identified the missing ship. Anybody know where this is and where the ship went? Were these lost containers, or is the ship still there below them?

(Edit: To be serious, the ship is still there, of course. All those containers wouldn't stay together like that if there wasn't a solid mounting rack below them holding them in place.)

u/Sandy_W — 7 days ago
▲ 127 r/Ships

Anyone know who and where this was? The bow has an "MSC" ornament but that doesn't help much, those guys go all over the world. The original had no metadata like date or location. I've trimmed a watermark. All I know is that I found it on the 'net some time back -it got copied from my backups when I set this PC up in 2021- and the original had a watermark from a wide-open site that allowed anything, which I don't think should even be named here...

(I've got a couple of these. There's a lot of knowledgeable people here, let's see if we can get them to share it!)

u/Sandy_W — 8 days ago