Skip to content

"List Management Edit Mode" Proposal #2012

Open
@rik-shaw

Description

@rik-shaw

Please use GitHub reactions 👍 to show that you are affected by the same issue. Please don't comment if you have no relevant information to add!

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I am looking for more friendly ways to manage simple checklists on mobile. As noted below, there was pr #987 that attempted to address this by exposing reordering handles to lists, but it was rejected due to lack of feedback by the original author, also it would be a risk to make a mess of a more complicated note with multiple lists, etc. that would be highly undesirable as it would be seen as a "data integrity corrupter".

Describe the solution you'd like
My idea would be to only open a note for editing in the more "GUI friendly" List Management Edit Mode IF it is only a single list with no other "non-list item" text. So a note with multiple lists, extra headings, etc. would only open in the traditional editor(s). But if it is only list items, then it would open for editing in a more graphical way rendering the checkboxes and allowing checking and unchecking easily (like currently in preview mode), but more critically it would have reorder handles to the side to re-order list items manually by dragging. Optionally as a next version checking an item would move it to the bottom and strike it out. A "convert to list" entry that would force all text lines to checklist items would be in the "3 dot menu" for the text note so that a note could be forced to open in this new "Lilst Management Edit Mode". Additionally, a "open in full editor" menu item may be needed so a user could in essence make more complicated note (that would not be usable by the "List Management Edit Mode"). Alternatively, a "convert to text" entry could be there.

Describe alternatives you've considered
#987 is a good start, but it would need re-written and needs more consideration considering the valuable comments from @stefan-niedermann about more complicated scenarios (such as multiple lists in a single note, do NOT want to mess them up by re-ordering and trying to account for those valid but more advanced scenarios).

Quillpad can currently do something a bit similar with Nextcloud Notes, but by causing it to be converted to .md format I think.

Additional context
I am looking for any feedback on if any such proposal above would be acceptable if I were to attempt to make a PR with this idea. Having your support is the first step.

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions