Suppose that you want to move âChild Aâ from âParent Aâ to âParent Bâ.
With existence shorcutkye, you have to hit
Shift + Tab -> Swap with next -> Tab -> Swap with previous (x 2times)
It is boring to me and I need a shortcut to do that.
Not sure if Iâm following you.
Using Dynalist in a web browser, I click the item, CTRL SHIFT M to move it, and move it:
Can you expand a bit on your explanation?
Funnily enough I just got frustrated with this today too. See my post here on a macro which serves this function:
This works but is fairly cumbersome / time-costly compared to a single press keyboard shortcut
Ahhh, I see!
I hardly ever move items that way, except when Iâm writing, so it went over my head 
@ruud, @Stephen_Dewitt,
Thank you for sharing your tips. With your tips I can partly solve my problem.
But actually I hope to move âchild Aâ from âParent Aâ to âParentBâ as follows:
Yes, I meant that.
If you can support that, there will be two options :
I think the latter is better. You can move topics intuitively with one shortcut with regardless of inside / cross parent.
How do you think?
Iâm not a big fan of the built in shortcut commands, I do it old school with the following method
(takes less than 5 seconds)
Works on any bulletpoint, can move notes anywhere I want, as many notes I want, to any bulletpoint anywhere in my document. Takes same number of steps everytime
The problem with using any other method imo is inconsistency (e.g. if you move an item, does it go to bottom of list or top of list?)
Alternatively, you could just highlight everything you want to move, cut, make new indented bulletpoint, paste
As you can see it takes me less than 5 seconds to do
Side note if you had anything linking to any of these bulletpoints, it breaks the original link and you have to make a new one linking to it
Ahhhh you want the top of the list. Well I just tested this and you can add like 20 (or whatever) ctrl + upâs to the macro after the item is moved - because itâs a macro this happens instantly and will move it to the top of the new parent list (i just tested it with literally 20 items and the macro still takes <1 second). So this way you could make macros for top or bottom of next parent list as you like.
Yes I cut and paste items a lot too, but it requires at least some mouse clicking and I canât think of a way it could be macroâd to always paste to the top of the next parent list as thereâs no shortcuts to move to the nearest parent list or from one parent list to the next (ps. I would love these options) - but when you want precision or itâs a complex move, cut and paste is best
@Erica, is it feasible? I usually need to move items across parents and Ctrl+Up/Down is a convenient method.
I want to avoid cut and paste. As you noted, cut and paste is re-creating topics, which changes date info and links.
okay I see
Iâve been strictly avoiding using any built-in system-dates and linking in general because those notes arenât as portable and are therefore less accountable if I had to move my notes to any other platform for any reason
I hard code all my dates using week numbers and days like today is #W11A #16 or march 16th
Its personal preference, but since I donât rely on the date system, I can cutpaste wherever I want without much fear asides links Iâve made to that bulletpoint
I still cannot imagine a better system then cutting+paste in some instances though, although it could be improved by âdeselectingâ some bulletpoints elements you donât want to cut and paste
alternatively, I rely more on tagging than linking, which is a overall better practice imo (goes back to portability of notes)
@Vincent_Tang In preferences you can opt to always have Moved items move to top or bottom.
Also, internal links should only break when moving from 1 document to another. Within the same document links shouldnât break.
Ruud
I meant cut and paste. The moment you cut anything (CTRL+A, CTRL+A, CTRL+X) it immediately deletes all the metadata associated with that bulletpoint, including any links pointing to it
If you want a fairly clean way to move bulletpoints while still retaining the links/metadata using the move command, this is imo the easiest workaround to do it
Write a dummy bulletpoint, dubbed âasdfâ or something you never type between bulletpoints you want to move
Highlight all the bulletpoints you wish to move
CTRL+SHIFT+M âasdfâ press ENTER
Highlight all the bulletpoints, press tab
Delete the ASDF node
The gif above came out to 10 seconds though, but gives you an workaround to moving items without fail while only using the move command
Thanks all !
I will be able to make a shortcut combining
When I finish the test, I will update you.
@Erica,
Even with this user-level customization, I have to change the shortcut key when i want to move topic inside parent or cross parents.
I am appreciated if you consider :
- Changing behavior of Ctrl + up / down
@Erica I have this feature implemented in a similar app I developed. It really shines when combined with indent/unindent, enabling one to move a node to any other position in the document faster than using drag and drop, provided you introduce similar keyboard shortcuts (redundant, in dynalistâs case) for indent/unindent. In my app:
ctrl+shift+up/down move a node vertically across the document whenever there is an available position above/below at the same indent level. Usually this just means jumping from one parent to the next, but sometimes it means the node moves quite far in the document tree (e.g. to a different parent and a different grandparent).
ctrl+shift+right/left are dynalistâs indent/unindent.
Iâd be happy to share my code (not interested in competing with you guys).
I found the following in DynalistBlog.
[UX] Now Ctrl+Up/Down can move across parent items.
Thank you very much for supporting this feature!!
