- Current behavior: Items switch to the ânot a parentâ bullet point style when a search doesnât match any of itâs children. You delete the invisible children when you delete the item. Thereâs no way to tell this is occuring.
- Change the behavior: Items with children always use the âparentâ style bullet point icon. Search behavior remains unchanged. It simply uses the appropriate icon to warn you it has children before you delete it.
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Iâm losing data and itâs due to the UI.
If you filter to âthoughtsâ for example, youâll get a lot of results, some of which looks like this
a
b
but, secretly it is really:
a
b
c
d
Where the data loss occurs is when you delete b. It then looks like this:
a
Thatâs fine. What isnât fine is that it doesnât show the âpregnantâ bullet point. By all appearances, itâs a lone item, not a parent containing c and d. So, the user will delete a, having no hint or clue that theyâve just deleted c and d. c and d might be really important to-do items. This seems like a big bug to me.
The solution is show parent bullets with the parent bullet always. I know the design reasoning is probably âthereâs no children that match the searchâ but thatâs pedantic compared to the data loss danger.
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Parent
Not a parent