With Date feature, enter should still create new item, not fill in the date

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Phoenix

• March 06, 2020 18:44
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With the date feature, it's very difficult/frustrating to add any items that end with the word "today" (or other date words), because pressing enter, which would normally create a new item below the current one, instead replaces the word with a date object.

I think that having Tab is sufficient as a shortcut for expanding those date objects.

Though it's still suboptimal to have Tab be overloaded as well, which makes indenting rows more difficult to do if the cursor is after a date word, but that is less annoying than having it happen on pressing Enter.

Please disable, or allow me to disable, Enter as a shortcut for completing the date objects so that I can type up lists without having to carefully work around that.

The key sequence I have to do to type "It's 62°F today" is "<type stuff> <esc> <Enter>". Or "<type stuff> <Enter> <Cmd-Z> <Enter>". Both of these are frustrating, and the first requires treating the software carefully, which is always a big mental overhead to have to do.

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • March 06, 2020 21:22

  Hi Phoenix,

  Are you on the desktop app? We've already made the change to Tab to activate a date object in the browser :-). The desktop apps will take a bit longer. 

  In the meantime, you could hit space before hitting Enter (or if you're not using the date feature, you can toggle it off). Sorry for the inconvenience!

   

  ~ Frank

   

   

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