I’ve spent the past few weeks playing around with different circumstances to see if I could narrow down when it happens and when it doesn’t (it happens in almost all situations).
The only additional correlation I’ve seen is that the cursor jumps when the note flashes in “Recently Edited Notes”. I disabled iCloud syncing and this still happens (note flashes and cursor jumps) – I thought that might be the action but it looks like it’s just the general autosave.
I have not been able to find a definitive “the cursor doesn’t jump in situation X” yet.
Ah hah! This triggered it for me! (er the realization). I have a yubikey, it emulates a keyboard. I hadn’t even thought of it until you mentioned 3rd party keyboard. I pulled out the yubikey and so far the behavior has not recurred. I’ll update to let you know if this keeps it away (and then i’ll hve to figure out what to do
This week I wiped the entire install (find ~/Library -name "*genda*") and installed again, and now there’s no problem. Which is 99% great! I’ll speak up if it recurs but it seems really unlikely. I’m so happy to be back in Agenda for my daily note-taking!