Code block - cool uses outside of coding!

Hi all,

As I’m not a coder I basically ignored the code block thing when it came out (which you use by wrapping text in three of these ` e.g. Hello). However I was just playing around with it and it has some nice features for general knowledge / project management. Firstly it has a nice visual, kind of like a note but also separate and with a background colour (not sure of the CSS scope for changing this) which could be nice for anything that is kind of like a subtitle to the main bullet, like the aim of a project:

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becomes …

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Also, one really cool feature is that if you hover over with the mouse, you get the option to copy the text of the code block (not including the ``` things) which makes it awesome for some information management tasks like phone numbers, addresses, or anything you might want to regularly and easily copy e.g.

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A voila:

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Thanks for this handy little extra feature Dynalist guys.

I wonder if anyone else can think of some more cool uses for this?

Have fun!

Stephen

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Rendering bug if set to single line.

That’s really creative! Works well for email addresses too! :smiley:

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Ah I couldn’t understand what happened to you at first, but now I see you have put the code block in your note. In both cases above I actually put the code block in the bullet itself - when you do this the rendering actually brings it down to the second line so it looks a bit like a note but its not - this is nice as you can have this and a note at the same time

I love how you think!

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