I’m in some list (call it “Notes”), and I want to jumpt to a particular item containing the term “Spam,” but I want to view it in the context of “Notes.” I.e., I just want to be scrolled down to “Spam”; I don’t want to be inside “Spam.”
Right now, I’m try to Cmd-F and place my cursor there and then clear the search, but that doesn’t work. Neither does zooming into “Spam,” then zooming back out into “Notes.”
This is a very common workflow for me, so I’d love to know how to achieve this. What do you all do?
Essentially, I want something like every browser’s built-in Cmd-F, so I guess I could just change the shortcut for Find in Dynalist to not conflict with the browser shortcut for Cmd-F.
Unfortunately, the current answer is simply no. We don’t have anything built-in like that.
Although undoubtedly this would be invaluable if you have a long list.
Really want to carry on the discussion, but I think it’s more appropriate and more discoverable if we continue the discussion in the Features category.
Do you think maybe Dynalist shouldn’t do anything about this since browsers implement this exactly?
Browser find won’t match rendered content like LaTeX, images, and links, but I don’t think that’s too much of an issue.
More importantly, either (a) Dynalist will have to change its default find shortcut to Cmd-Shift-F or (b) users will have to remap the shortcuts—and think of doing so in the first place. Neither option seems very good, though I guess (b) might suffice.
Cmd-G should do the same thing on Chrome, which we didn’t override (just guessing here, Ctrl+G works great on Windows). Actually I think Ctrl+G is much better, and I’ve abandoned Ctrl+F even when I’m not on Dynalist.
Ah, so sorry about the confusion. I meant for jumping to item in general. For example, if Dynalist accounts for this kind of jumping, going to item A in context B in another document would be much easier. So it’s a more general thought, not specific to jumping to an item that’s on this page.
A thought: maybe we can treat the item as a “line number” in terms of syntax. What I mean by that is this, what if you can search for
Name of bookmarked item:another query
And when you go there, the bookmarked item will be the zoomed in item, and the item that matches “another query” will be scrolled to.