Title bar in note creation panel
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Hello all,
I was making notes today for work and could not make titles for them. I tried to organize and title them so that they would look uniform, but it didn't work. The first line was always shoved into the succeeding lines of text, and this is what appears in the Notes panel.
This is what my idea would look like. Note how only the title appears in the search:
Another idea for this--for creating new notes from text on a webpage, there could be a placeholder title or something like that.
Thank you!
I read a similar thread (Title of notes should use first line only), but I think my request is a bit different. Also, noting what @rojaviv said, it doesn't seem like first-line titles have been implemented. Or, at least, it isn't working for me.
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@taka_ The notes naming works this way: On creation, it takes the first line as title/name (So give a meaningful name on first line)
Then edit the note, remove the first line, the name stays ! How cool is that -
@taka_ Click twice
Double-clickon the Note Title, or press F2, then type the titleInsert an ampersand & before any letter that you wish to use as an access key on the context menu when inserting notes.
@taka_ said:
Note how only the title appears in the search:
If the notes had short titles this would not be very useful.
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@rojaviv Ok, so that's how it works. Is that method really intuitive, though?
@pesala Thank you. I see how that works now. There's a problem with the first method you gave, though—for notes with links, double-clicking the note navigates to the link instead.
Using the function key works, as you said, but I had to ask you in order to find that out. Not to mention, I did not see that in any of the threads I searched, including the one I linked, which you posted in.
I just resorted to using the right-click context menu. It seems to work in all cases.
Also, for notes in the context menu: I renamed some notes and added ampersands to the beginning, selected text on a web page and right-clicked it with and without modifiers, but they didn't appear in the context menu. Which context menu are you referring to? I don't think I asked about this, but thank you. I'll make use of it.
In response to what you said:
If the notes had short titles this would not be very useful.
Well, that's only an if. I imagine that power users besides myself make meaningful titles for their notes.
Also, considering what I didn't know about title-changing, the search function already works just as I show in my first post. It searches the whole note for a given term, and then show the note in the results and shows only the title, given that the user changes it to his or her liking, independent of its length.
I just think that it would be easier to change the title by adding a small field for it. I initially thought that another field would take up too much space in the Notes panel. The right-click context menu works, then, if anything.
Case in point: The features are already there, but some of them are usable by somewhat unintuitive methods (I don't mean to slight anybody in the least by saying this). This browser is for power users, yes, but that doesn't mean over-complication, right?
Also, isn't this still a feature request?
Thank you all.
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@taka_ said in Title bar in note creation panel:
@rojaviv Ok, so that's how it works. Is that method really intuitive, though?
Not in the least, sorry shudv'e mentioned it was a work-around that I discovered accidentally
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@rojaviv said in Title bar in note creation panel:
@taka_ said in Title bar in note creation panel:
@rojaviv Ok, so that's how it works. Is that method really intuitive, though?
Not in the least, sorry shudv'e mentioned it was a work-around that I discovered accidentally
Oh no, you're all right I was just using that to segue into my second point.
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@taka_ said in Title bar in note creation panel:
There's a problem with the first method you gave, though—for notes with links, double-clicking the note navigates to the link instead.
I should have said "Click twice" or "Click on the selected note title" rather than double-click.
The Access key appears on the context menu when inserting notes.
@taka_ said:
but I had to ask you in order to find that out. Not to mention, I did not see that in any of the threads I searched, including the one I linked, which you posted in.
You didn't ask, I just told you. (~_~)
However, I did mention it in the linked thread.@pesala said in Title of Notes Should Use First Line Only:
@rojaviv You can rename notes by clicking the note title.
I admit it's not that easy to discover, but it also happens with bookmarks, and it is the same as the behaviour in Windows Explorer for renaming files.
The underlined access key appears in the context menu when inserting a note into a text area. If you don't add an access key, it is set automatically, but is not underlined.
The folders don't have underlined access keys in my screen shot, but they can also be renamed to add one.
If you can think of something that is missing here, I suggest starting a new Feature Request. What you asked in your initial post is already available.