Request: Gesture to switch layers

[andreapanontin]

I was thinking that adding a gesture (for example three fingers swipe up or down) would greatly decrease the clunkyness of interacting with layers while taking notes.

What I had in mind was: if you swipe down (with 3 fingers maybe) you switch one layer down compared to the one you are editing right now, unless you are already at the bottom layer (in which case nothing happens). Viceversa, if you swipe up you go to one layer up, unless it's the uppermost. In such case I thought it would be convenient to either just add one or require to swipe twice to create a new one (so not to create random ones too easily). Especially in case the gesture creates a new layer I would love to have some sort of visual feedback of the fact that the gesture was correctly interpreted. As of now I was thinking that maybe a refresh of the screen (the transition to black and then to content again) would suffice, assuming it is possible to implement. Maybe a more refined feedback could be less intrusive/more intuitive to interpret (e.g. a small arrow pointing in the direction of the swipe, placed where the layer menu would be on the sidebar [even if the sidebar is hidden]).

[Reddevil57]

There is something that would be helpfull before I think : Just a way to remember each page's current layer.

[martin-braun]

In a perfect world, such feature would display the layer name in a corner for a brief moment after switching the layer using such gesture. I would also love to have a gesture to show the current layer for a brief moment to know on what layer I am. It could fit in your example with a three-finger long tab gesture, beautifully.