If I have a list I know I might want to reorder, I put each item in separate notes and put those notes in a container. That lets me use all Tinderbox’s facilities – sorting, outline view, chart view, and all the rest – to work with the list.
Copying and pasting text links is tricky; if you keep the links, sometimes you need to delete the unwanted links, while if you don’t keep the links, sometimes you need to replace them. If I hadn’t expected to need to edit this list, and now I needed to completely revamp it, here’s what I’d do today:
- Copy the current list, and paste an unlinked copy beneath the current list.
- Edit the copy.
- Recreate the links
- Delete the old list
Or, if I want to add or remove items, I can do that in place.