Fsnotes: [REQ] Improve selected/focus highlights

[gingerbeardman]

From: https://github.com/glushchenko/fsnotes/issues/315#issuecomment-409561580

Return steps towards the right (in)
⌘+Return steps towards the left (out)

but it's not easy to see which column you are in (except if you can see the cursor when in the note)

I think perhaps current focus could be better represented through highlight colours?

• blue = "selected with focus"
• grey = "selected _without_ focus"

left (folders/tags list)

• current folder should be blue

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middle (note list)

• OK, focus is obvious and correct (note)
• this is what you are looking for to delete using ⌘+Backspace

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right (note content)

• middle should be grey?
• arguably you should be able to delete the note you are in, if you can copy the note you are in?

[jeff-h]

I think it would also be cool if you could use ⌘+left/right arrow to navigate — I never realised return and ⌘+return did anything in this context.

[gingerbeardman]

@jeff-h love that idea

[peavine]

I like @gingerbeardman's suggestion:

blue = selected with focus
grey = selected without focus

Keyboard shortcuts to navigate are important but I'm not sure Command-Left Arrow and Command-Right Arrow would be the best choice. I say that because these shortcuts are commonly used (including in FSNotes) as a document shortcut:

Command–Left Arrow: Move the insertion point to the beginning of the current line.

Command–Right Arrow: Move the insertion point to the end of the current line.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236

[gingerbeardman]

Good point! If we think of each column as tabs, how about (from previous apple link) reusing some of these shortcuts (ignore what it says they do here)

Command–Left Bracket ([): Go to the previous folder.
Command–Right Bracket (]): Go to the next folder.
Command–Up Arrow: Open the folder that contains the current folder.
Command–Control–Up Arrow: Open the folder that contains the current folder in a new window.
Command–Down Arrow: Open the selected item.

[peavine]

My preference would be to use Command-Left/Right Bracket to navigate. Currently they are shortcuts for Format > Shift Left/Right, but perhaps these could be changed to something different.

Command-Up/Down Arrow are fairly important document shortcuts that move the cursor to the beginning and end of a document. I wouldn't change those.

[gingerbeardman]

In Safari, I change between tabs using Cmd+Shift+Left/Right it just occurred to me now that might be suitable?

[peavine]

That's certainly a possibility. If the FSNotes menu bar contained a menu item for this (as there is in Safari), then users would have the option to change the shortcut to whatever they like.

[jeff-h]

My preference would be to use Command-Left/Right Bracket to navigate. Currently they are shortcuts for Format > Shift Left/Right, but perhaps these could be changed to something different.

In code editors at least, these shortcuts are very widely expected to do exactly what they currently do in FSNotes — ie indent / de-indent. Even Xcode has this... thus I'd strongly hope they stay as-is because I write code a lot lol