Adding descriptions to tasks

[Uranusek]

Describe the solution you'd like
Ability to add descriptions to tasks. Currently, I can use a label for this, but then the description cannot be too long.

Additional context
None.

[PhilKes]

I am not entirely sure what you mean with "task"? Do you mean when you create a List note, you want to set a description?

[Uranusek]

Yep, currently I have to do it using labels.

[PhilKes]

Yep, currently I have to do it using labels.

Do you have an example where you need a long description? Usually I just give the list a title which is descriptive enough

[Uranusek]

Currently not, as I have shortened all descriptions to fit in the label fields. But it happened many times that my tasks were extensive and had detailed descriptions.

[tilt-me]

Do you have an example where you need a long description? Usually I just give the list a title which is descriptive enough

For example, in a grocery list, a description could contain the amount, or a variant of the item, its brand, or a peculiar note

• item: Chocolate
  description: white, dark 70%, with nuts
• item: Oranges
  description: 2kg
• item: Kiwis
  description: gold, 500g

[PhilKes]

Do you have an example where you need a long description? Usually I just give the list a title which is descriptive enough

For example, in a grocery list, a description could contain the amount, or a variant of the item, its brand, or a peculiar note

• item: Chocolate
  description: white, dark 70%, with nuts
• item: Oranges
  description: 2kg
• item: Kiwis
  description: gold, 500g

I honestly dont see the benefit to just adding the descriptions in brackets or something:

Adding this new description field would mean adding a new field to the data model, also it would have to be visually separated in the UI as well, and if people dont want to use this new field it would just take away lots of space for each list item

[Uranusek]

I didn't mean a description for each element, but only one description summarizing the entire task. Something like that

As you can see, I used a label for this, but it's not very convenient.

[PhilKes]

I kinda feel like that is what the title of the list is for, to describe the contents of the list. Additionally you have labels to group them, I think another field would be redundant, or at least I dont really see a benefit to it.
If we add a description field it would basically be like a text note + a list note in one note, but I really dont want to mix the 2 kinds of notes.
Google Keep also has a clean separation between list and text notes, which I also find most intuitive.

[Uranusek]

Sometimes the description may be too long to use as a title ¯_(ツ)_/¯

This option could be added to the plus menu. Then it will be invisible and completely optional, just like adding a photo.