Hi Erica,
Really like to see as Feature to find and replace certain text or some abbrevation i used for structure.
Cheers
Dimitry
Hi Erica,
Really like to see as Feature to find and replace certain text or some abbrevation i used for structure.
Cheers
Dimitry
Right now, Iāve just been exporting OPML, running
pbcopy | gsed -r 's/this/that/g' | pbcopy
in the command line, then pasting back in.
Iād appreciate a regex find-and-replace function, though.
Cool trick! Unfortunately thatās only for power users.
Regex is kind of power-user-only as well, so I think weāll start with the most basic Find & Replace.
lots of things have f-replace
want to know what practical use is this?
want to know what use YA has that the user has to do all that this user did all to do something that seems to be needed?
if you need it, then you can use those apps for those specific purposes
also, usually when someone f-replace (or at least me), itās cos they didnāt use the right words initially
so that means itās a process problem, not a problem with the tech
tech should not be for post-problems, they shouldnāt be reactive
good tech helps in preventing problems in the first place
like preventative medicine
I would argue that it should do both, like a modular phone in some ways, or Slack. Slack doesnāt have 1000 features, but it does have a bot platform and offers a variety of integrations. This helps many people.
Thatās the same case here. Since people arenāt perfect (unfortunately), itās nice to be able to offer ways to correct mistakes. Like a spellchecker. Moving forward is a win-win case either way.
This is great for replacing all instances for a string but Iād like to have a find and replace that allows me to iterate through and decide which to replace and which to not
This is the one thing Iād most like to see in Dynalist.
I love tagging to keep track of @people but not all tags should be permanent. I might have an exciting business meeting with @bob tomorrow, but I might not know @bob in a year and I might not want his tag taking up space in my tag window. If I could find and replace (deleting all @bobs or turning them into plain olā Bob) that would make tagging a much more useful option for me.
You already can delete all @bobs by rename it in tag panel and delete all letters, it will remove all @bobs for you that way
This is certainly a feature I would like as well. Seems like it should be very do-able as well - why is it not already implemented?
+1
Find and replace would be very useful. Sometimes information or formatting needs updated in many places
Yep, we totally agree!
Iām hoping thatās a āwatch this spaceā kind of response Erica
Find and replace would be very useful.
It arrived at the end of last year
https://blog.dynalist.io/2019-november-update/
Itās a local F&R, what I am talking about is the global one - all lists at once, or at least a whole folder
Could you post a separate feature request for that please? That way we can know how many people want global search and replace specifically vs document level.
Does it have to be one or the other?
Global will be an extension of the local (e.g. with a checkbox that says āReplace across all docsā).
Itās not an easy extension though. Excerpt from another post of ours:
The biggest obstacle of that is by updating all the links, there is going to be a change across all documents that cannot be undone, which is what we need to think through right now. Itās for the same reason that tags can only be renamed locally, and search and replace only works within a document. We want you to be able to undo any change with Ctrl+Z, but that does not work across documents right now.
Ok, Iāll make an another feature request.
Anyway thatās not a killer feature for now.