Splitting Items

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Posted by eastgate
Apr 7, 2024 at 03:42 PM

An operation that some outliners support is *splitting* an item. For example, we have this outline:

Animal
Lions Tigers

We place the cursor after Lions and choose SPLIT. Now we have

Animal
Lions
Tigers

Questions:
(a) Is this actually used? How often? Does anyone have data?
(b) Is there a conventional keyboard shortcut?

Posted by Maurice Parker
Apr 7, 2024 at 05:41 PM

I don’t have any hard data since I don’t track anything a user does in Zavala, but I do know it gets used. It was one of the first things I added to Zavala because of a user request. Since then, I have been asked how to do it on iOS (currently you can’t). So I’ve been getting user feedback suggesting that is useful. Personally, I rarely use it. It is nice when you want it tho.

I used shift-cmd-return for the keyboard shortcut. I probably got that from OmniOutliner, but I can’t remember for sure.

Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Apr 7, 2024 at 09:51 PM

re Item > Split: Definitely a often used feature.

InfoQube re-used the same shortcut as venerable Ecco Pro, which is Ctrl + Shift + S
As a bonus, when not editing, IQ can batch split items using a delimiter string.
Details here: https://infoqubeim.com/drupal5/node/3956

Pierre Paul Landry
IQ Designer

Posted by Paul Korm
Apr 10, 2024 at 12:20 AM

Maurice, actually Zavala on macOS uses shift-option-return for Split, not shift-cmd-return. And works nicely.

Split, moving the split text to a new row, using the same keyboard shortcut as Zavala (shift-option-return) also works on Bike, though it seems to be undocumented.

Posted by nirans@gmail.com
Apr 10, 2024 at 12:32 AM

eastgate wrote:
An operation that some outliners support is *splitting* an item. For
>example, we have this outline:
> > Animal
> Lions Tigers
> >We place the cursor after Lions and choose SPLIT. Now we have
> > Animal
> Lions
> Tigers
> >Questions:
> (a) Is this actually used? How often? Does anyone have data?
> (b) Is there a conventional keyboard shortcut?

I must be missing something. How is this different than placing the cursor after Lions and hitting return ?

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