Bug 158575

Summary: Would like more practical editing of the note's title
Product: [Applications] knotes Reporter: Dragan Espenschied <drx>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: finex
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
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OS: Linux   
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Description Dragan Espenschied 2008-02-29 13:58:13 UTC 
Version:           3.6 (using 3.5.8, Kubuntu (gutsy) 4:3.5.8-0ubuntu3.3)
Compiler:          Target: i486-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.22-14-generic

At the moment users have to double-click on a note's title to produce a dialog box in which to enter the node's new title.

I suggest to just use the first line of the note as its title. It's like this for example on PalmOs and Gnome's Tomboy and proved super practical. As a user i would not have to think of any meta-data or replacing the default title (which is just a date) with something more meaningful.

After all, it should help taking notes and not be so much about document handling or metadata ... just quick notes.
Comment 1 FiNeX 2008-03-01 00:07:50 UTC 
Instead I like to set the title on the note. :-)
Comment 2 Dom 2008-05-01 22:44:52 UTC 
This would be a great addition I agree. As a side note, double-clicking the title doesn't always trigger editing the title, and I mention this because it's strange as I don't have problems with double-clicking with anything else but KNotes.

Even if it would have to be an option, it would make taking notes a lot easier and quicker without the need to use mouse to change the title. 
Step 1. You create a new note
Step 2. You start writing the title
Step 3. You click enter and start writing the note

Or you can skip the step 2 and just start writing the note as the title would (optionally) be taken from the first row of your note, making it still easy to find from a list of notes, even if you don't add a special title later.

And I'd like the option to keep the date string at the beginning of the title, which serves for other purposes well.
Comment 3 Dom 2008-05-01 22:49:20 UTC 
Oh sorry, and I forgot to mention that this way of creating notes would also solve the problem that the bug #107903 (Search for a "keyword" doesn't find the keyword in the titles of notes) creates. Although not the bug itself, I know, I know...