Small feature suggestion:


Small feature suggestion:

When you have a nested list, you can use left arrow to navigate onto the parent node. That's easy and great. When there is a list of items (on the top layer), you have to manually press up arrows repeatedly to go to the top of the list.

It would be great just to press left and go to the top of the listed items. So in the screenshot below, pressing left to land on "Career" node.

Comments

  1. Xavier B10 May 2017 at 00:02

    Isn't that what Home does?

    ReplyDelete
  2. Kirill Maximov (KIR)11 May 2017 at 04:06

    Xavier B, yes, it is. But the suggestion from John Obfuscated makes sense as well. On the other hand, I have not met such behaviour in other apps and accidental pressing "left" may change the context in an unpredictable way. So we probably won't add it yet.

    ReplyDelete
  3. John Obfuscated11 May 2017 at 18:57

    Kirill Maximov Well, if you press left arrow accidentally anywhere else, focus would jump on the top of the list anyway. Why should it be different for the top layer? : )

    I would argue that consistency of functionality throughout a product is important for ease of use. I find myself pressing left arrow a few times before saying "oh.... left arrow doesn't work at this level".

    Maybe I should be pressing home + ctrl + shift + left arrow. Pressing left repeatedly is much easier though. Because you won't need to learn a 4 key shortcut just to get on top of the list.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Kirill Maximov (KIR)12 May 2017 at 10:50

    > Well, if you press left arrow accidentally anywhere else, focus would jump on the top of the list anyway. Why should it be different for the top layer? : )

    Because it is not obvious given that on top level, there is no a parent task to set focus to. If we'd supported selection on list name, it would make more sense. For people who get used to the current behavoiur would be really inconvenient when selection (and scrolling) would go up when they did not want it to.

    As for home + ctrl + shift + left - you should just press home. No need for extra other buttons, if you have Home :)

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

I'm really enjoy using checkvist, you are adding great features very quickly.

I'm really enjoy using checkvist, you are adding great features very quickly.  What I feel is missing is more use cases.  How are people using Checkvist?  What are some recommend workflows?  How many lists do you have? User Stories will not only help those of use already using Checkvist to be more effective, but attract more non-technical customers. I like to keep my lists at a minimum.  I only split out for sharing but I'd prefer not to. Here are my lists: * Inbox:  This is where zapier based integrations go.  I have Jira tickets and emails tagged with "!action" going to list which I process daily. * The List:  This is my primary list.  Everything is here.  I use sub-nodes for different areas. * Honey Do:  This is the list my wife and I share to make sure we know what we both want done around the house. * "Client Project" - I have a few Lists I share with clients (Free lance web developer). I"m looking to write a more detailed blog post. How are your l...
Read more

Hello friends

Hello friends, We are considering to change behaviour of move up/down command using ctrl+arrows for lists with hierarchy. The new approach is available on our beta site, https://beta.checkvist.com . Could you please try it out and tell us what you think? Thanks! https://beta.checkvist.com
Read more

Hello friends!

Hello friends! I'd like to ask for your opinion regarding multi-line text editing. This suggestion comes from one of our Russian-speaking customers Dolina Zamkova so here is a translated abstract of our email conversation. Current problem: When you write multi-line text, you must press 'Shift-Enter' first, then use 'Enter' to start a new line, then 'Ctrl-Enter' to submit the text. Wouldn't it be easier to have a setting that will allow using Enter to always write multi-line texts, and always submit on 'Ctrl-Enter', like you do it in text messengers? So we could add a new account-wide setting, on the Settings page: () Finish editing by pressing 'Ctrl-Enter' (convenient for multi-line text) What do you think? Do you write multi-line texts in Checkvist at all? Other thoughts of how we could make it better? :)
Read more