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Request for numbering the notes with several levels
It would be very useful having the notes numbered, with several levels of depth, such as:
1 Note number 1 1.1 subnote 1 1.2 subnote 2 2 Note number two ....
In big notebooks like the one I use, with hundreds of note, having them numbered would help a lot when refactoring notes than have to be moved to a distant place.
This is interesting idea! Can you please clarify what exactly you are asking for? Options:
- Numbering of notes to be shown by MindForger for better orientation in big(ger) notebooks, but not to be added to section title and stored (to Markdown notebook). If you reorder/refactor/... notes, MindForger will automatically keep numbering consistent (sequence) so that you know where (in the notebook) you are.
- A menu action which would prepend numbering to section titles so that it is stored (to Markdown). If you reorder/refactor/... numbering may become inconsistent, but you can easily identify note which was moved (to distant location) by its numbering prefix. MindForger could have an action to "update/refresh" number (like when you rebuild index in LaTex/MS Word/...) when you are done with refactoring.
Please feel free to share any other option you may have! Thank you for the suggestion :+1:
Hello, Martin.
The option is the first. There are to possibilities for numbering, that could be chosen by the user, in both cases as an indicator of the position (that isn't part of contents)
- Just an autoincrement counter for rows (like in Excel).
- Several levels of depth (1, 1.1, 1.1.1, ...).
As an addition to this, when you have to reorder lots of notes in the same notebook (or move notes to another notebook), it would be interesting it you could cut and paste multiple notes:
- consecutive notes, as when you press Shift key after having marked the first one
- an arbitrary selection, as when you use Ctrl key
I'm now reordering a big document (2.2 MB) with hundreds of notes, and I'm creating notebooks as targets and I'm having to move them one by one using refactor. If is were possible to choose any number selecting them with the mouse and Ctrl key, it would be a quicker task.
Kind regards, Oscar
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 9:38 PM Martin Dvorak [email protected] wrote:
This is interesting idea! Can you please clarify what exactly you are asking for? Options:
- Numbering of notes to be show by MindForger for better orientation in big(ger) notebooks, but not to be added to section title and stored (to Markdown notebook). If you reorder/refactor/... notes, MindForger will automatically keep numbering consistent (sequence) so that you know where (in the notebook) you are.
- A menu action which would prepend numbering to section titles so that it is stored (to Markdown). If you reorder/refactor/... numbering may become inconsistent, but you can easily identify note which was moved (to distant location). MindForger could have an action to "update/refresh" number (like when you rebuild index in LaTex/MS Word/...) when you are done with refactoring.
Please feel free to share any other option you may have! Thank you for the suggestion 👍
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Makes sense. Thank you for the clarification.
Ad moving multiple notes - MindForger refactors note along with all its child notes. Perhaps you could try (as a quick hack) move a notes below top most note one level down (temporarily), then refactor the topmost note to another notebook (it will move its children as well) and fix the hierarchy when done in target notebook. It could save you several refactor actions.
I will extract enhancements you suggested to separate issues to plan and implement them.
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 11:29 PM Martin Dvorak [email protected] wrote:
Makes sense. Thank you for the clarification.
Ad moving multiple notes - MindForger refactors note along with all its child notes. Perhaps you could try (as a quick hack) move a notes below top most note one level down (temporarily), then refactor the topmost note to another notebook (it will move its children as well) and fix the hierarchy when done in target notebook. It could save you several refactor actions.
Hello, Martin. This is what I'm doing now, because the optimal solutions isn't available yet. But the option of be able to select all the multiple notes I want and refactoring them to another notebook would be very helpful. Doing this operation hundreds of times, I missed a keyboard combination to go back directly to a "default notebook" (which I could choose; in my case, it would be the "source notebook" where the notes are extracted to be moved to other notebooks).
Kind regards, Oscar
I will extract enhancements you suggested to separate issues to plan and implement them.
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