The cards with empty titles should be supported by SN: there are cards which does not need a title. Currently cards with empty titles or the titles containing icon only are visible in Index and in header, but not visible in Add link/parent lists, which may be considered as a bug.
Card list: do not display ‘Untitled’. Just leave the empty title, or just an icon (if there is an icon, but no title text). Clicking/double-clicking on the empty title should open card for viewing/viewing children (this currently does not work: it is possible to open card with empty title from Sidebar, but not from cards list)
Sidebar, Add Link/Parent lists: if the card title is empty (no icon/no text), display the first several words from the body of the card, enclosed in some unusual symbols. (For example: <Useful empty card>). If there is an icon, but no title text: display icon and the first several words from the body of the card (icon <Useful empty card>)
I get that linking between notes may make this a bit more complicated, but I find having to think of a title adds an extra barrier between having an idea and making a ‘minimum viable’ (ie linkable) note.
That’s a fair point, and this is actually why we introduced the “Thoughts” tab – to allow you to rapidly create cards without worrying about titles, and then go back later and title them for the purpose of organization.
But I can see how some workflows still prefer to leave cards untitled and link to them anyway, so we will continue looking at how we can improve this behavior.
Even if cards weren’t linkable without titles (which would be completely reasonable), many of my personal use cases for this topic are solved with card hierarchies instead of titles.
For example: jotting down a quick 2-bullet summary from a conversation with Joe, then making it a child of Joe’s card. If I regularly talk to Joe, it seems like pretty useless overhead to add the title “Quick Conversation with Joe” to each of those notes.
This seems like a pretty idiomatic use of Supernotes and would ease, for example, not having daily notes to dump random things like that into.
This is a weird request sort of. I like to just write out a quick thought in the app and I struggle with having to write a short title for it.
I don’t even know how this would work, but I would love to have an option to hide a title or something. I like to micro-journal and it’s hard to make a title for a one sentence card.
So I don’t know what that would look like and maybe it makes no sense, but I would like to have to not worry about making a title sometimes.
I have a huge quote library that I store in Supernotes. Here’s why I love that it encourages me to add a title to each quote.
When I add short titles to long quotes, it forces me to understand and summarise the essence of the idea in the quote (and makes it quicker to understand the core idea when I revisit the quote)
When I title a short quote, I usually just copy/paste the quote as the title, but I still try to think if there’s a clearer way to summarise the idea or simplify the language for the title
Titles make the quote easily linkable from other notes
Titles make the quote easier to search
Titles make quotes consistent with all of my other note types
Just some “food for thought” for people who currently avoiding adding titles for their quotes.
