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Simple document navigation
Simple document navigation
Description
Nothing too fancy just a standard MSWord-like document navigation with:
- headings map with appropriate levels
- click heading to jump to position
- search document text
- highlight search result position in map (nice-to-have)
Placement
a) left-hand sidebar with a button that flips between current workspace navigation and proposed document one
b) left-hand sidebar with a button to extend / retract proposed document navigation from the current workspace one
c) standalone right-hand sidebar with a button to show / hide like the current workspace navigation
Use case
How might this feature be used
To navigate a document and jump between its individual sections swifter and easier. Long-form text with a multitude of headings and levels is a nightmare to navigate through by only scrolling. This is especially true when rearranging paragraphs or other blocks between distant positions within the document.
Pasting content in edgeless does not create a new element so mind-mapping content pieces and rearranging them to fit a desired order (as an alternative means of achieving the previous sentence's goal) is not possible either.
That being said, the proposed simple document navigation offers a swift, easy to work with, and likely easier to implement way of working with multi-heading (and level) long-form text.
Who might use it
Pretty much anyone and everyone using AFFiNE as a word processor, especially while working with long-form text consisting of a large set of headings and levels of such.
Anything else?
Additional notes
Image attached in the description but it said to do it here so here it is.
I'd offer to help implement my feature requests but I suck at TypeScript, so best leave it to the pros.
For further reference of the feature concept just open a Word or Google Docs document and look to the left :)
Regardless of the outcome, your project is awesome and I love having it as a rich-media offline substitute for Notepad as it helps me move away from taking notes on a corporate Notion workspace that only works in the cloud.
Wishing you a successful development!
Are you willing to submit a PR?
- [ ] Yes I'd like to help by submitting a PR!
Thank you for the detailed suggestion. We planned this in https://github.com/toeverything/blocksuite/issues/4159 and please track it afterwards. This issue is closed.
