@marcoccio Oh yeah, this post reminded me of yours, which I had liked earlier. That’s why I guess I thought it used to work. This post is a duplicate then.
I’m having the same issue; this is particularly problematic when one is write a link or inline code. If you ever get the cursor back to the end of the link or inline code, the formatting becomes “sticky”; whatever you will write will be a link or an inline code.
The only way that I’ve found as a workaround is to select the last character you wrote, then use a keyboard shortcut or the formatting menu to un-format it, and then continue writing. Which is pretty slow, unfortunately !
I’d like to be able to format text “in advance”. When I hit ctrl+B without selecting text, this should lead the text I write next to be bold. It’s annoying to always go back to format text.
Just got into the alpha today and couldn’t figure out why the cmd+i/cmd+b etc. weren’t doing anything till I found this. I’d really hope that gets added/fixed soon; I can’t think of a word processor/text edit without it. Even this comment box I’m typing this in supports it. It’s also really annoying that I can’t un-format the text following the formatted text till after it’s been typed.
+1 this also confused me and I thought it was a bug, since it’s so ubiquitous amongst word processors. For me the more important use case is headers (e.g. Ctrl-Shift-1) for quickly outlining sections in new pages, but yes there should be shortcuts for all formats.
Currently, Notion allows you to select a text and then use keyboard shortcuts to format a piece of text as bold (Ctrl+B) etc. However, let say that as you are typing you know that you have to underline, bold or italicize the next word/phrase, I should be able to hit Ctrl + B (Ctrl + U Ctrl + I) and as I type it formats it as such. See attached video of demonstration.
HOW COULD IT BE DONE
REAL WORLD USE CASES
Easy and efficient to format and as you go rather than waiting till you finish your thought and going back
to apply the proper formatting