Auto-fill from Capture window
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Daemonas
It would be great if there was a way for me to add the "By Whom" and Source fields during capturing the quote, and it would automatically add it.
What i mean is if i copy a quote and launch the quick add function, i should be able to add something like a new line with the author and source in a format such as this:
"Something something something"
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
This way the two fields are automatically filled. This also makes sense to me since the common format i'm used to uses the Author comma Source format like above.
An even better addition that would be if there was an empty line below where the quote is that has it as a placeholder and the user can choose to place their caret there and type it out or just submit the quote anyway and fill it in later.
Conan Chou
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Conan Chou
Hi Daemonas. Thank you for the suggestion! You can actually achieve this in the current version, though the method is slightly different from what you proposed. To add the “By Whom” and the title, simply start a new line and type two dashes (--). This will mark the new line as the author and title line. For example:
Something something something
--Marcus Aurelius. Meditations
This will automatically parse the author and title. And the trick also works for the cases without the title part.
Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions.
P.S. I noticed a small bug while testing it before replying to you. The period at the end of the by-whom line isn’t handled properly at the moment, so please avoid adding one for now. We’ll fix this in the next release.
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Daemonas
Oh, that's awesome, i wasn't aware of that! As a follow-up suggestion, i think making it more clearer it's possible by adding a faint placeholder text at the bottom where it can be added? I think a visual sign of this would be nice as it's not otherwise apparent.
Conan Chou
Daemonas: That's a great suggestion! We will think about how to incorporate this. Thanks!