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Suggestions for merging notes #148

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WaterTreee opened this issue Dec 7, 2024 · 3 comments
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Suggestions for merging notes #148

WaterTreee opened this issue Dec 7, 2024 · 3 comments
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@WaterTreee
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We can add a function of merging notes to facilitate the integration of scattered ideas or inspirations.

This function can combine the contents of multiple notes and then generate a new note. This new note has all the contents of the original notes.

The contents of the original notes can be added to the new notes in turn by date or other sorting methods.

After merging into new notes, we can prompt the user whether to delete the original multiple notes.

You can do this as the entrance to this function, and after selecting multiple notes, display "Merge" in "More", just like the export function.

These are my ideas. If you are willing to take my advice, you can also make this function according to your own ideas.

I look forward to your taking my advice.

@WaterTreee WaterTreee added the enhancement New feature or request label Dec 7, 2024
@PhilKes
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PhilKes commented Dec 9, 2024

Its an interesting idea, I personally have never felt the need to merge notes, but I can see situations where that might be helpful.
I think the order of merging should be order of the notes you selected.
Merging the contents should be straight-forwards, the only question is what do we do with the notes titles?
I guess the most obvious option would be that the merged note has the same title as before, the other deleted notes titles would be lost, but I think appending the notes titles would not be useful either.

@WaterTreee
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WaterTreee commented Dec 9, 2024

I'm glad you can accept my idea. I think your method of merging the order of notes is better and more in line with people's thinking habits.

I agree with what you said about the title. But there is another way for me to keep the title, but it is not displayed on the title, but added to the content of the new note as content, just like splicing articles.

Article splicing is to treat multiple notes as parts of new notes, just like a document has many subtitles, and there is a paragraph under each subtitle. And each old note is a subtitle plus the content of the subtitle. When you add it to a new note, you can format the subtitle to make it more conspicuous, such as bold.

You can keep the title by the above method. But sometimes this is not necessary, so you can add an option to choose whether to keep the title.

@vertigo220
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Related to this, and maybe something that could be used in place of this feature as it would possibly accomplish the same thing (though perhaps not) and provide even more functionality is linking, so the various related notes could be linked to from another note instead of combining them.

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