My partner typically texts me her grocery list with each item on a new line. Would it be difficult to make it so that I could paste this whole list into the command bar and have it separate into separate items based on a delimiter (new line or comma?). This would be a great time saver for quickly …

From a software perspective it doesn’t sound too difficult to add this. UX-wise, I’m not sure where to put this. Maybe something like pressing shift-enter in the task input field would open it up to be multiline, then one task per line? [image] mon: I haven’t tried this, but you can try and ins…

I’m not even concerned about the visuals to be honest. If it was simply a single-line field the same as it currently is, where the text overflows off the end of the text box that’s fine by me. :smiley: I’d only be using the input field for “paste” > “enter” when trying to do multiple tasks, assuming…

My shopping lists, I just have a task with the shop name and use a markdown list for the items. Obviously you cant check those off though. I wonder if it’s possible to have ‘checkable’ list within the text areas? Like this EDIT: Oooh that already works! There is just no button in the edit toolbar…

I mean, that does work but it’s not much different to just reading the SMS my partner sends me with details of what to get aha. I don’t know if it’s worth the effort to format every grocery list in such detail vs just trying to decipher the plain text. Which is why a simple list based on pasting pre…

It’s not entirely beyond possible that you could paste a space or comma separated list into the text area, select it, then tap a ‘checklist’ button to have it automatically formatted. Just made this list below by writing each animal on a new line, selecting all lines and clicking on the ordered lis…

[image] adrinux: Obviously you cant check those off though. I wonder if it’s possible to have ‘checkable’ list within the text areas? Related: Lists, but not lists of tasks

Thanks for all of your input! I’ve added this to the backlog and will try put something together. Low priority though. @adrinux if you use * instead of - for your checkbox list, it will recognise and update when you click on a checkbox.

Enjoying finding little bits of Vikunja I haven’t learnt yet :slight_smile:

I’ve actually implemented this a few days ago in 442e6b12e0 . You can now either paste a block of text with multiple lines or create new lines with shift + enter in the “new task” input box in the list view. Vikunja will then create a new task for each line of text input. Already in unstable and on …

Finally got around to trying that on try and it doesn’t seem to work. Both pasting text with new lines into an edit textarea and using soft return in the add new task input box just put everything on one line. Even when I added list formatting. (Well, pasting into a textarea with list formatting wo…

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