[Feature Request] Custom Dictionary: Nested Alias

[FelipeRearden]

Hello @tadashi-aikawa !!!!!

My FR is a little difficult to explain but I'm gonna try my best to make this easy to understand

⚠️ Let me know if something is not clear

FR: Only for Custom Dictionaries, be able to create suggestions that are nested by alias.

I'm gonna use a simple example and then I share my workflow:

📝 Example

Let's image I have a Custom Dictionay with Grocery items 🍔

• Every time that I go the supermarket, I create a note with all items that I have to buy.

This is my grocery items database

Fruits:

• Apple
• Orange
• Grape

Protein

• Meat
• Chicken
• Fish

I would have a Custom dictionary like this

• The alias Fruit and Protein trigger my items

꜔Apple>>>Apple<TAB><TAB>Fruit
꜔Orange>>>Apple<TAB><TAB>Fruit
꜔Grape>>>Apple<TAB><TAB>Fruit

꜔Meat>>>Apple<TAB><TAB>Protein
꜔Chicken>>>Apple<TAB><TAB>Protein
꜔Fish>>>Apple<TAB><TAB>Protein

For making easier for me I would define a universal alias as fff to trigger the content of this Custom Dictionary

꜔Fruit → Apple>>>Apple<TAB><TAB>fff
꜔Fruit → Orange>>>Orange<TAB><TAB>fff
꜔Fruit → Grape>>>Grape<TAB><TAB>fff

꜔Protein → Meat>>>Meat<TAB><TAB>fff
꜔Protein → Chicken>>>Chicken<TAB><TAB>fff
꜔Protein → Fish>>>Fish<TAB><TAB>fff

As you can image, I would have a huge suggestion list to get all items a grocery list Custom Dictionary.

Would be amazing if we could hit fff and have a suggestion opened like this:

Than after hitting Fruits another VC modal open filtered with only the fruits:

💡 My Idea

I am thinking something like this:

Display TextA>>>Inserted TextA<TAB><TAB>alias1


Display TextB>>>Inserted TextB<TAB><TAB>Inserted TextA

Using the Inserted TextA as the alias of the Inserted TextB

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Following My Example we would have a Custom Dictionary like this:

꜔Fruit>>>Fruit<TAB><TAB>fff
꜔Protein>>>Protein<TAB><TAB>fff

꜔Apple>>>Apple<TAB><TAB>Fruit
꜔Orange>>>Orange<TAB><TAB>Fruit
꜔Grape>>>Grape<TAB><TAB>Fruit

꜔Protein>>>Meat<TAB><TAB>Protein
꜔Chicken>>>Chicken<TAB><TAB>Protein
꜔Fish>>>Fish<TAB><TAB>Protein

Step 1: hit fff will show a modal with Fruit and Protein

Step 2: select Fruit will open a new modal with Apple Orange and Grape

🆘 nothing will be inserted in the Note

Step 3: select Apple will insert Apple in the note.

My Workflow

I am creating Notes for my documentation, this way I use a lot of keyboard symbols ⌘ ⌃ ⌥ ⇧ and arrows ← → ↑ ↓ to create commands.

This way I have a Custom Dictionary that only contais symbols

I have a workaround to mimic the behavior that I want in this FR

• I use the key / an Universal trigger.

Let me show ...

꜔←→↓↑>>>㉿A		cmd
꜔>>>㉿M		cmd

꜔→>>>⅋end⅋→		㉿A/
꜔←>>>⅋end⅋←		㉿A/
꜔↑>>>⅋end⅋↑		㉿A/
꜔↓>>>⅋end⅋↓		㉿A/
꜔←→>>>⅋end⅋←→		㉿A/

꜔⌘>>>⅋end⅋⌘+		㉿M/
꜔⌃>>>⅋end⅋⌃+		㉿M/
꜔⌥>>>⅋end⅋⌥+		㉿M/
꜔⇧>>>⅋end⅋⇧+		㉿M/

📽 Video

video

Step 1: hit cmd to show the suggestion groups

Step 2: select the one of the suggestion groups

Step 3: the suggestion ㉿@ will be inserted in the current note

Step 4: I type / which will bring me the modal again

Step 5: I select the suggestion that will be inserted in the current note.

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I don't know if I am asking is possible :)

Would be amazing to not have to use a / to bring the modal again :)

Thanks for reading this and sorry for the long text!!!!!

Let me know if you need more information !!!

Have a great day 🌞

[tadashi-aikawa]

Hi, @FelipeRearden. Sorry for the answer too late 🙏

I had decided not to implement it because I think this feature is a bit complicated. (I don't know what will happen in the future)

Step 4: I type / which will bring me the modal again

If you trigger suggestions manually, you don't need to type /.

If you want to, I can add an option that enables you to show suggestions continuously, but it seems noisy for other cases 🤔

[FelipeRearden]

Hi, @FelipeRearden. Sorry for the answer too late 🙏

Thank you very much for your reply 💙💙💙

You already know that my FRs are always a little longer than the usual 😜 📖

I had decided not to implement it because I think this feature is a bit complicated. (I don't know what will happen in the future)

100% understood. I know that I have a different approach to VC that may be a little complicated sometimes. :)

If you trigger suggestions manually, you don't need to type /.

Thanks for the suggestion 💙 The main idea for me is to be able to do this workflow without using any hotkeys, just typing my alias magic words and then interact with the VC modals :)

If you want to, I can add an option that enables you to show suggestions continuously, but it seems noisy for other cases 🤔

In my users mind, that exactly what I was looking for . If possible I would humbly ask to make this option only affect (be available to) Custom Dictionary. Thanks for considering this option 💙💙💙

ℹ️ If you agree, I do the beta test (as always) and I test the how the whole operation goes and the indirect impact in my other workflows with VC.

Let me know what you think :)

Thanks !!!!