Feature request: Add notes to items

[alehandrof]

It would helpful to be able to add notes to items à la Trello. The presence of notes would be indicated by an icon, but the notes themselves would not be visible until the item was “opened”.

I looked for a similar feature request and don’t find one.

[pemontto]

Could the notes just be created as nested list items? The notion of nested lists doesn't seem to be leveraged currently

[mgmeyers]

So, it's not quite the same, but cards now support multiple lines (shift + enter by default). This could in theory be used as a stop-gap before proper card notes are supported.

[alehandrof]

That is very helpful for the moment, thank you!

[alehandrof]

I just realized that the Markdown view uses <br>. Eventually, it would be helpful if information beyond the first line could be stored in a way that makes for easy reading in Markdown as well!

[kankaristo]

This is the one "killer feature" that I would want in this plugin before I feel like I can actually use it fully for my task lists.

I don't want to clutter my Kanban board with long card/item titles, but I also don't want to create a new note/file for every card, if I only want to write a few sentences of description.

Like @pemontto suggested, I think this could be done in Markdown as nested list items, or maybe a block quote nested under the item. So, either one of these:

- [ ] Item 1
    - Description 1, not shown on the Kanban board, but only when the card is "opened"
- [ ] Item 2
    > Description 2, not shown on the Kanban board, but only when the card is "opened".
    > A block quote might be a bit cleaner than nested list items for long, multi-line descriptions.
    >
    > Block quotes would also allow empty lines inside the description (although once you go past a certain length, a separate note makes more sense).
    > - you could
    > - also have
    > - list items
    >     - inside the card description, if they use block quotes

[snird]

Currently, the only way to expand details on an item is to rip it from the board and create a new note.

I support this feature request, the use case for adding notes to a card is very common. Also, doing so by using nested lists seems so natural and players nice with the markdown mode.

P.S: Currently the plugin force-remove any nested lists. So it makes it impossible to "fallback" for markdown for this, we either commit to having no "subnotes" on an item or don't use kanban at all

[nickynicolson]

P.S: Currently the plugin force-remove any nested lists. So it makes it impossible to "fallback" for markdown for this, we either commit to having no "subnotes" on an item or don't use kanban at all

Could a top level config option control the use of nested lists, ie allow the user to specify that nested lists should be treated as notes? In its simplest form this could be done without detecting and hiding notes and supporting their view via a special icon / popup (as suggested in the original feature request above), i.e. just display the nested list on the card as-is if the "treat nested lists as notes" config option is selected.