Repurposing Strikethrough to use as a highlighter

[Nathan_Dunn]

One of the features I’ve been wanting (a pullover from my Evernote days) is the ability to highlight text in Dynalist. I know people have developed CSS to provide background-color coding for the entire bullet, but often I want to highlight just a word or phrase within a bullet.

Then it occurred to me that I really don’t use the Strikethrough formatting feature in Markdown at all, so why not use CSS to repurpose that as a highlighting feature?

Here’s my CSS for this specific feature:
.node-strike-through {
text-decoration: none;
background: yellow;
padding: .25em 0;
}

And it’s nice that this change doesn’t interfere with Dynalist’s native functionality of crossing off “completed items”

[pottster]

Thanks @Nathan_Dunn!

There have been a couple of similar posts previously.

Highlighting and underlining (CSS Hack)

I have been trying to figure out how to enable highlighting of text (like with a yellow marker) and underlining. I thought that CSS customization would solve, this, but it doesn’t, or it does and it doesn’t. First, it’s not possible as far as I can tell because of the HTML format in Dynalist. CSS does not have the ability to search in text within span or div tags for a pattern of text, and since we can’t use custom markup yet, there does not seem to be a way to do this. However, I realized I w…

Highlighter hack

I posted this elsewhere but was asked to share this: IF you have a pro account and IF you don’t use code, you can hack the code CSS to become a highlight: Put this in your CSS area: .node-inline-code {background-color:#ffd;color:#000;font-family:‘Whitney’;padding:3px;} You can change to your preferred font, and change the back-ground color if you like. I use http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html to find color codes, but there are many good color pickers out there.

Great minds think alike

[Erica]

Great minds do think alike! Great post!

[Nathan_Dunn]

Looks like I need to improve my “search game” here in the forum…

[Nathan_Dunn]

I do like the fact that the markdown itself is included in the search function in Dynalist, so to find any highlights, I can simply search Dynalist for “~~”, and it returns my highlighted results.