SUGGESTION: Highlighting for Visual Filters and games
When one has a number of custom highlighter palettes in support of visual filters and highlighting, apply a highlight in a visual filter becomes an onerous, obnoxious, annoying and inefficient task because the drop down shows all the highlight palettes expanded in alphabetic order - with the exception of putting the system supplied palettes first. This means I get to spend lots of time scrolling to the correct style.
My first choice of a solution would be for the drop down having a search box at the top for the palette name and for that name to be remembered until changed.
My second choice for a solution would be to leave the palettes closed - expand only when I select the palette.
What I don't like is playing games ... prefixing a palette with "AAA" so it will be the first after I scroll through the system junk so I can find it in a reasonable amount of time.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Have joy in the Lord!
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MJ. Smith said:
My first choice of a solution would be for the drop down having a search box at the top for the palette name and for that name to be remembered until changed.
+1
MJ. Smith said:What I don't like is playing games ...
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"The Christian mind is the prerequisite of Christian thinking. And Christian thinking is the prerequisite of Christian action." - Harry Blamires, 1963
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How about allowing us to pin our favorite highlighting styles to the top of the menu so we can find them quickly whenever needed.
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I can see how pinning favorite styles could be useful. For myself, I build palettes around tasks so pinning a palette would be more useful. If I were using the palettes provided by Faithlife, I would probably prefer pinning styles.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Why not both? [:)]
Our internal design guidelines say that once a list goes over 25 items, it should have a filter box, or be divided into reorder-able collapsible sections. Highlights (the tool) falls into that latter category, but the highlight picker doesn't do either.
A good design would have a filter box at the top of the picker, and would have a most-recently-used list of about 5-7 items as the top section.
(A similar but different control appears in Notes for setting the highlight style of text-attached notes, and should also be reviewed. It at least has collapsible sections that remember their state.)
Adding a card for this improvement.
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Thanks Eli
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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