Ability to move selection to new or existing note, leaving behind reference
It would be helpful to have the ability to select a part of an existing note and in one action move it to a different note, either new or existing, and leave behind a reference to the destination. This would allow quick "refactoring" of notes to easily break up notes that get too big.
Where to put the content when moving to an existing note is a challenge.
Comments: 6
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06 Jun, '21
Bill AdminI think the best way to do it is just to allow extracting the selection to a new note. Then the hard part of the UX that remains is "how to name that note" such that the note title and the reference to the note are updated in one fell swoop (preferably without leaving the source note). I believe we'll implement something like this in the coming months regardless, but more votes could elevate its priority.
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19 Oct, '21
IsaiahIf I understand the ask correctly, here is my workaround for (on Windows):
1. ctrl+shift+<arrow keys> till I have selected all my text I want moved
2. Ctrl+x
3. [[<search or create note>]]
4. Click on linked note
5. Ctrl+v -
13 Nov, '21
HLEvery day I find the need to select some text in my jots or notes and move it to either a new or another note. Right now I have to open two windows to cut and paste the texts between two notes. This is another feature I love from Notion and I'd love to see it in Amplenote at some point.
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15 Nov, '21
StuartThis was the closest I could find as an existing request closest to what I was going to raise
I'm not super fussed about the reference back, it could be useful in some cases for me. But I really miss the !move option we have for tasks, just for a bullet/paragraph of text, to send it to another note. It could just go at the top of the note like when tasks are moved.
My use case is: a project is a note. It has tasks of things I want to work on now, but also I'll capture ideas in daily jots I want to 'send' over to the project note at the end of the day for more planning later.
What could also help, both for tasks and plain text being moved, is having a small temporary 'tooltip' dialog show with a link to the destination note. I'll often then want to jump to that note to do further editing, so clicking on that confirmation link would be quicker than a separate Ctrl+O search for the same thing I've just found for the move. -
03 Jan, '22
Lucian AdminDone! Check out the help page: https://www.amplenote.com/help/double-bracket-note-link-syntax#Extracting_text_selection_to_a_note
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17 Jan, '22
StuartThis has made a big difference to my workflow, thanks! But....(there's always a 'but'!) I think the hyperlink on the source page where the extract toolbar was invoked would make more sense if it retained the original text rather than the destination note name. The destination could be the URL of the rich footnote.
For example:
"Here is a sentence which I want to extract to an existing note"
If I extract that to a note called "Future Ideas" then the 'Here is a sentence...' is replaced by a hyperlink called 'Future Ideas'
But that (for me) is now just clutter as I've no idea what the original extracted text was, so I delete it.
If the original 'Here is a sentence...' was retained, and hyperlinked to the 'Future Ideas' note, I'd have both bits of information and a reference in the source note of what was extracted
Thanks!