Undo problem after a new note is created in outline view after pressing Enter in a note title

I’m trying out Tinderbox in its evaluation version. I haven’t got to terms with how it works with Enter key in note titles in Outline view, and then stumbled upon this.

Create a new note in outline view. Create another note in outline view. Then go into the first note’s title and put the cursor somewhere inside it. Now press Enter. The title will be split where the cursor is and a new note will be created with the remainder of the title. (I expected to just confirm the existing title by pressing Enter) Now, if this isn’t want you wanted, as in my case, press Command-Z to undo. It will reconstructor the splitted note, but the newly created note will still remain. I find this counter-intuitive and expected also the new note to be deleted when undoing the operation.

This behaviour is to be expected as it was explicitly asked for by some users. Since implementation, discussion has led to a likelihood that the behaviour might become controllable via setting.

I’d agree that this isn’t what I’d expect but only if the note split was accidental—and I’m not sure the app can judge that. Having said that, I too would intuit/guess the new note would be removed by the undo.

I think the consideration at opening - making this note title edit → note split behaviour optional might be the real fix, IOW by not having the problem in the first place.

For me, I just hit command+z (undo). This puts the text back into the original note and leaves the partial note, which I deleted.

If you continue to do command-z, the other two notes in the example I gave will be undone and finally only leave the partial note. I didn’t expect that behavior, hence my mentioning of it.

It’s an error. It will likely be corrected presently, perhaps by eliminating the note-splitting feature entirely.

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