Bullet points

[Kobaratz]

I am interested in a bullet point feature

Bullet points with the rich text editor options when typing a standard note. Other options in the editor would be a plus too, but not sure how hard they would be to implement on current UI.

May be worth noting that if I paste content with bullet points on the web, it will create bullets but they aren't configurable (i.e. can't add more of them unless you copy paste). Attached image of how that looks.

[PhilKes]

It would be best to separate the two suggestions. The 1st shouldnt be too hard, but the 2nd would involve merging the two types of notes together which would be a huge effort, since a text note is simply one big EditText and a list note is a RecyclerView with ListItems, fusing that together in the UI would be very hard

[Kobaratz]

Understandable :) I will edit this for just the first suggestion.

[fiso64]

I think hyphens could be converted to bullet points automatically just like here on github. When I type - item1 it is displayed as a bullet point, and when I press new line another - is added at the start of the line automatically, which is convenient.

[andiandi13]

@fiso64 I believe forcing formatting in a note app isn't a good idea, it is not a document editor app, but a "raw" notes app.
I myself use a lot of hyphens to start sentences or words, and I wouldn't want at all that they transform into bullet point.

Another practical case would be if you want to create a tree like that

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where only the first hyphen would be converted.

Imo a user friendly way for this feature would be :

• Possibility to open the formatting menu anytime
• Formatting menu would stayed open as long as we don't click on the [X] icon
• There would be a bullet points icon in it
• So we just have to tap it to add a bullet point anytime and instantly

[fiso64]

It's not just hyphen at the start, it's hyphen plus space - . This is a very common feature across many notes apps. I think the best way would be to add a toggle in the settings to disable this, although I strongly suspect that most users would keep it enabled. I don't want to press another button in some toolbar to add a single bullet point.

[andiandi13]

@fiso64 If there's an option like "Enable auto formatting" why not, but I wouldn't like to be forced to use bullet points.

[PhilKes]

Github simply supports markdown, thats why - are converted into bullet points.
But Android also offer BulletSpan which would be the same kind of implementation as bold, italic etc. and therefore easy to add.
I am not a big fan of automatically converting - into bulletpoints, as @andiandi13 pointed out it can be quite annoying.
But if we introduce the BulletSpan as a formatting option in the bottom bar we could say that if the current line is a BulletSpan and you press new line that the new line is also a BulletSpan automatically. That would not interfere with @andiandi13 use-case

[andiandi13]

Yes so we'd use the bullet point icon only one time to create the first one, the others with line breaks. And to stop auto creating them, just jumping two lines like any document editor.

Sounds good.