Standard Notes bugs, improvements and new features

February 17, 2025•380 words

Note: if the bullet doesn't start with a qualifier (like "Sheet:"), it means that it is about the "Super" note type.

Bugs

Sheet: Duration cells don't accept 17:00 as a duration, converting it automatically to 16:00. It does accept 17:01 and 16:59. The same for 23:00, converting it to 22:00. It accepts 23:01 and 22:59 correctly.
It is not possible to move an item (any block, text or image) to or from a collapsible.
Trying to delete a bullet item in a list with collapsible opens the collapsible automatically.
It is not possible to fully select multiple list items (three mouse clicks to select one and move the mouse to the other). If doing for the full list (from the first item to the last), as soon as the mouse key is released, the selection clears.
Back and forward buttons don't work. They should trigger navigation to previous or next notes, as happens in the web browser.

Names are inconsistent. "Tags panel" doesn't have tags, but "Views", "Favorites" and "Folders", but folders use "#" as icons, which are normally associated with tags in other programs. Also, at the top it shows "Search tags", but nothing is called tags. (See image 1.)
Headings should have more spacing before and after them.
Not being able to scroll past the document end is uncomfortable. We end up adding many newlines at the end of the document.
Allow changing the default dark color.
In addition to move blocks with the mouse, allow moving them with the keyboard (alt+up/down).
Shortcut to highlight text. But it would be better if we could define our own shortcuts.
Commands menu/palette, like ctrl+shift+p in VSCode or Sublime Text. It could also show the default shortcuts for existing commands, which is great for discoverability.

Sheet: Allow custom currency, date and time. Currently (feb/25), it seems to only allow the system/app locale format.
Listed: Simplify sharing images or files embedded in a note. Currently, embedded stuff show with the file uuid, unless you host it somewhere else and add the link instead.
Current keyboard shortcuts do not work properly for Brazilian keyboard layout. Allow customizing.

Created at: 2025-02-17 19:27