Improved Navigation Between Notes in Note Board View

Feature Requests
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Current Situation:

  • Keyboard shortcuts for navigating between notes are ctrl + → and ctrl + ←
  • These shortcuts require users to move their hands from the typing position which I find a bit distracting.
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    Proposed Improvement:
  1. Implement swipe gestures (right/left) for navigating between notes, similar to browser navigation
  2. Change keyboard shortcuts to ctrl + [ and ctrl + ] for easier execution from typing position

Benefits:

  • Smoother and more fluid user experience
  • Faster navigation without disrupting typing flow
  • Consistency with familiar browser navigation patterns

Please consider implementing these changes to enhance the overall UX and productivity for users working with multiple notes in the note board view.

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Hi @shshnkbhskr welcome to the Supernotes Community! :tada:

We already use Ctrl + Brackets to navigate between pages within the Noteboard. We’re also unable to change the Ctrl + Arrow keys functionality as that’s the default behaviour in browsers. So it’s a no regarding changing the default keyboard shortcuts.

However, Connor and I were just chatting about this morning how there’s lots of related “keyboard shortcut improvements” so we’re very heavily considering opening up all the keyboard shortcuts for customisation – that way you can customise Supernotes to your OS / workflow – and any issues / conflicts you might have you can resolve yourself.

Swipe gestures are also an interesting suggestion, especially those who have trackpads – however this wouldn’t work for all views as Graph View depends on swiping to zoom about. We’ll see what we can do.

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Hey Tobias!

Hmm… I wasn’t aware there were pages, I guess I don’t have enough cards yet.

Customising shortcuts is always a welcome feature. I’m all for it.

I understand the gestures not being viable for the graph view, it already has a function. The other views would benefit from it if made possible. Especially since I know there’s no possibility of changing the default shortcuts to jump between notes. I hope to see this in action!