Reparenting Operation (Nest)

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It’d be great to have a keyboard shortcut that simultaneously cuts a card from a given parent and re-parents it to another card in the same view. In other words, I’d love a shortcut that given the following structure:

A 
  - B
  - C

would enable me to transform the structure as follows:

A
  - B
    - C

Basically, it would move a card at depth level 1 to depth level 2 (under another select card within the same parent).

As projects/hierarchies evolve, I commonly run into a situation where a note that belonged to a more general parent now has a more specific parent (that is a child of the general parent) that it should be moved into.

I’ve been able to use the current suite of shortcuts for the first time in a while, and I gotta say, great job on these. It feels great to use a completely keyboard driven workflow in SN. I feel as productive as I do in vim, which is saying something.

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We’ve thought about this in the past, but decided it was a little bit too inflexible. Have you tried just dragging and dropping while holding shift?

3

Actually, drag and drop works well enough for my use case. Didn’t realize holding shift would also cut the current parent, thanks @connor!

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