Default icon in notes
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Default icon in notes
I use the same icon for all of my notes unless I specifically want to make something stand out to catch my eye, at which point I'll select a different icon just for that note.
Once I select a different icon for any note, new or old, that then becomes the default icon for every new entry. I am so used to having my standard icon used for new notes that often times I miss the fact that all my icons are now coming out as the last one I selected. I then have to go back to those and change them back to my standard icon.
Could I suggest the ability in note settings to choose a default icon, so that selecting a new icon doesn't automatically make it the new default?
For those that like the current behavior, maybe a switch saying "use last selected icon as default y/n". Answering no would allow you to have the system automatically use the last picked icon as the default just like it does now?
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Once I select a different icon for any note, new or old, that then becomes the default icon for every new entry. I am so used to having my standard icon used for new notes that often times I miss the fact that all my icons are now coming out as the last one I selected. I then have to go back to those and change them back to my standard icon.
Could I suggest the ability in note settings to choose a default icon, so that selecting a new icon doesn't automatically make it the new default?
For those that like the current behavior, maybe a switch saying "use last selected icon as default y/n". Answering no would allow you to have the system automatically use the last picked icon as the default just like it does now?
Best regards,
Todd
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Re: Default icon in notes
That's an interesting point, thanks! Will probably add an option to set up the default icon.
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Re: Default icon in notes
+1. I use different icons in m note trees. I also tend to use the same icon for new notes for a bit, then switch to another icon for another set of new notes. Having the option to either re-use the last icon, or the global default one, would be very helpful and further encourage the use of icons for clarity of notes in the note tree.todd wrote: ↑Sun Jul 05, 2020 8:46 pm I use the same icon for all of my notes unless I specifically want to make something stand out to catch my eye, at which point I'll select a different icon just for that note.
Once I select a different icon for any note, new or old, that then becomes the default icon for every new entry. I am so used to having my standard icon used for new notes that often times I miss the fact that all my icons are now coming out as the last one I selected. I then have to go back to those and change them back to my standard icon.
Could I suggest the ability in note settings to choose a default icon, so that selecting a new icon doesn't automatically make it the new default?
For those that like the current behavior, maybe a switch saying "use last selected icon as default y/n". Answering no would allow you to have the system automatically use the last picked icon as the default just like it does now?
Best regards,
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Re: Default icon in notes
+ 1/2 I'd like the option to set no icon as the default. I only like Icons on some rare things to make them stand out.
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Re: Default icon in notes
I like the idea of no icon as one of the selections for the default. I believe the reason I started using a single icon for all my entries was because I didn't have that option and I wanted to keep the look of my notes uniform.
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Re: Default icon in notes
Thanks for the additional comments, noted about the "no icon" option.
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Re: Default icon in notes
+1 and an extra request if possible allow default child icons to be set in a notes properties it would be a dream come true.
I like having my icons setup so that pages are always children of books, Place markers are always children of maps, People Icons are always children of contact book...etc and this would be a lot less work if I could just set a default child Icon for a parent node.
I like having my icons setup so that pages are always children of books, Place markers are always children of maps, People Icons are always children of contact book...etc and this would be a lot less work if I could just set a default child Icon for a parent node.
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Re: Default icon in notes
A bit specific request but will consider it, as well. Thanks!
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Re: Default icon in notes
That's great. I love having one of the icons as default.New in EssentialPIM 9.5 (Pro & Free)
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Choose a default icon (or no icon as the default) in Notes
But is there a way to uncheck 'Make selection as default''? The next time I open the Pick an Icon window it doesn't indicate that it was checked. I don't see a way to reverse the behaviour to how it was before this feature was added: no default icon, when a new note is created, the last used icon is set for it.
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Re: Default icon in notes
Let us know how you see it integrated with the current option, will improve in the next update. Thanks!
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Re: Default icon in notes
Let's say I set icon1 as default.
Now all new notes will be with it. And for majority of time it's what I want.
But then I'll want to add some notes with different icons. Say, three in a row with icon2, then a couple with icon3, then four with icon4 and so on. For that not having a default icon and re-using the last used icon would be faster than selecting the icon for each new note or changing the default icon several times (to icon2, icon3, icon4, ...).
As it's now, when I open the Pick Icon window, the default icon doesn't show that it's default. I click on that icon and the 'Make selection as default' checkbox is unchecked, as if the icon isn't default.
I see two different ways it can be improved.
1. If the icon selected in the Pick Icon window is already default, the checkbox should be shown as checked when the focus is on that icon, and so unchecking that checkbox will remove the icon from being the default one and set EPIM to the previous behaviour of using the last used icon for the new notes (and in this case the checkbox can be renamed into just 'Default Icon').
2. Or near the 'Make selection as default' add another checkbox 'Last used icon as default' to quickly switch to not having a default icon and re-using the last used icon.
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Now all new notes will be with it. And for majority of time it's what I want.
But then I'll want to add some notes with different icons. Say, three in a row with icon2, then a couple with icon3, then four with icon4 and so on. For that not having a default icon and re-using the last used icon would be faster than selecting the icon for each new note or changing the default icon several times (to icon2, icon3, icon4, ...).
As it's now, when I open the Pick Icon window, the default icon doesn't show that it's default. I click on that icon and the 'Make selection as default' checkbox is unchecked, as if the icon isn't default.
I see two different ways it can be improved.
1. If the icon selected in the Pick Icon window is already default, the checkbox should be shown as checked when the focus is on that icon, and so unchecking that checkbox will remove the icon from being the default one and set EPIM to the previous behaviour of using the last used icon for the new notes (and in this case the checkbox can be renamed into just 'Default Icon').
2. Or near the 'Make selection as default' add another checkbox 'Last used icon as default' to quickly switch to not having a default icon and re-using the last used icon.
Regards
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Re: Default icon in notes
Got it, thanks, will probably go with the first option.
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