What does the Notes row type do besides reduce the contrast of the text and make it italic?
Why do Notes include a nonfunctioning arrow before each paragraph?
That’s the core of it.
In Bike the core thing is a an outline of unrestricted rows. Any row can contain any other row, generally the all behave the same.
On that generic core row types are added. Heading rows always have bold text. Task List rows show a checkbox, etc. And note rows show text light and italic.
How you use, or whether you use at all, these row types is up to you. In the case of note rows I think they can be useful when you want to add an aside comment, or note, to your outline. The formatting helps separate it from the main content of your outline.
Why do Notes include a nonfunctioning arrow before each paragraph?
I don’t think notes have behavior different then other row types in this respect. Under the default settings all rows (except empty ones) will show a disclosure triangle “handle”. This has three main purposes:
- Click to expand/collapse if row has children
- Click-drag to move row to another location in outline
- Draws “dark” if the row is has collapsed children
I think the note you were testing with must have not had any children, so while the handle will do nothing when you click, you can still drag and drop. If you give the note a child then the click the handle should expand/collapse like any other row.
If you go to Bike > Settings > Editor > Controls there are various options for when to show/hide these handles.
Hope that helps!
[quote=“jessegrosjean, post:2, topic:5518”]
How you use, or whether you use at all, these row types is up to you. In the case of note rows I think they can be useful when you want to add an aside comment, or note, to your outline. The formatting helps separate it from the main content of your outline.[/quote]
I understand the logic there, it just isn’t optimal for my use case. I need to paste notes containing lots of lines of text into Bike without any styling, and the handles are distracting and have no purpose.
[quote=“jessegrosjean, post:2, topic:5518”]
If you go to Bike > Settings > Editor > Controls there are various options for when to show/hide these handles. [/quote]
I see a setting to hide the focus arrows, not the handles.
Sorry I use those terms interchangeably. Handle/Arrow/Disclosure triangle are all the same thing.