[SUGGESTION] Small tweaks to improve integration between search and connectedness views
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There are a couple of small things that could improve the integration of the two note list modes, search and connectedness:
1. **Menu access**: add the ability to easily swap between these two views to the main menu, and optionally with a pre-assigned keyboard shortcut. Even without a shortcut, adding this to the menu would make it possible for others to add their own. I find myself rarely making use of the connectedness feature on account of how inaccessible it feels (at least to one that does not often reach for the mouse).
2. **Search priority**: when using the command to search/create a note, the view mode should naturally switch back to search results once the user starts typing. We would want to wait until that point, to allow the `⌘L` shortcut to remain a useful mechanism for moving the keyboard focus into the note list context, but once you start typing in text, there is little purpose in continuing to display the connectedness list. One cannot see if what they are typing has a match, or if it will create a new note when they press return. The result I get from trying this with the current behaviour does not feel useful to me. If I type in something that would create a new note, nothing changes with the editor or note list view---that new note is merely created in the background with no feedback. While there are complicated ways this could be resolved, I think it would be simplest and most intuitive to simply dump the user back into search view once they start searching/creating. With the added accessibility from point #1, changing the view automatically would be less of a potential annoyance as well.
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We'll look further at this. I recently refactored all of the search related code to simplify the underpinnings, and a few things still need some revisiting. Thanks!
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Both of these are addressed in the next update. Thanks!
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Excellent, works great! Thanks.
Didn't know you were a doctor by the way. Every evening the whole city I live in (in Galicia) goes to their porches and windows to raise an ovation to all of those working on the front lines---I'll keep you in mind for it!
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AmberV -- thanks. And yes, I work at a teaching hospital. The hospital has been busy making preparations. We don't have too many cases in my city yet, but it's obviously just a matter of time. I'm trying to spend time with family and get some software work done, on the assumption that things might get a bit hectic for a while... So forgive me if I am taking longer than usual to respond. But I wish you the best since obviously Spain has been hit harder than the US thus far (on a percentage basis), though I suspect the US will be catching up soon unfortunately. (Assuming you meant Galicia in Spain....) I'm hoping you and your loved ones are doing ok....
And for everyone, please stay safe and listen to the expert advice out there. As communities, we have the ability to influence the course of this -- simply slowing down transmission to allow hospitals to keep up with those who need acute care can make a difference in saving someone's life. Even if you as an individual are not likely to get very sick, you can make a difference in saving someone else's loved one.
And in the meantime, keep sending us feedback on nvUltra so we can make it better! ;)
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> We don't have too many cases in my city yet, but it's obviously just a matter of time.
Yes, this is quite true. Even where I live, it is fairly rural and not a big tourist destination, we now have 300 active/known cases. In my specific province we got lucky with the lock-down happening before the disease had a chance to take a strong hold. There are cases, but the growth has been closer to linear than exponential. The truly saddening stuff you're reading about in Spain are mostly in Madrid and Barcelona, and even to a smaller degree, the coastal and capitol regions of Galicia.
I've been preparing and practising social distancing since a few weeks before the lock-down, and sheltering in place since then. It truly makes a big difference in whether a region's medical apparatus can keep up with the most severe cases. So I cannot agree with you enough on that score, stay home if you can, folks, and do your best to prepare for staying that way for a long haul. Now is the time to think of our communities.
> And in the meantime, keep sending us feedback on nvUltra so we can make it better! ;)
And keeping on keeping on is good for mental health as well. :)
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