How would a drag and drop feature work?

[ransome1]

Hi there.

A couple of times a drag and drop feature has been requested but never really described or discussed. Although I'm not going to be able to work on it asap, I would like to figure out how this feature would work in the boundaries of sleek.

I can think of two ways to approach this:

1.

The obvious rough idea would be to drag an item and while hovering over another item, a visual indicator would appear below that hovered item.

And now comes the tricky part as we have an automated sorting: To make sure the item would get sorted exactly below the hovered item (which is expected by the user imo), the dragged item would need to lose specific attributes (project, context, due date, priority) and adapt those from the todo it is hovered over. This can be problematic.

2.

Another idea would be to only allow the drag and drop feature on the groups (priority, due date, context, project). Like this a user would drag and item and hover it over a specific group. Which would then show an indicator (maybe a frame around the whole group). After dropping the item on eg a project, the dragged todos would be extended by the groups project.

What do you think?

[Saturo78]

I think i don´t need such a feature.
I also see a high risk of changing things by mistake.

[freecicero]

I too would like this feature.

I noticed today in using Markor on Android that although it is a pretty simple text editor, its todo.txt implementation allows the movement up and down of items in the todo.txt files by providing a simple up or down arrow in the toolbar. Clicking that part of the toolbar moves up or down whichever item the cursor is currently inside.

Granted that's not full or even partial drag and drop, but it does provide the ability to easily move an item up and down in the todo.txt file. That's a welcome ability, and something that I don't even think Simpletask (again Android) offers.

I note than when you highlight an item in Sleek and left click you get a simple context menu that lets you change the priority and copy or delete. Might be simple enough to add into that menu the ability to move the item up or down in the todo.txt file, which is what Markor does.

[aisbergde]

Instead of dragging items onto buttons, or in parallel , I could also imagine do drag and drop buttons onto items, to assign them.

And I could also imagine to drag a context or project (or whatever exists as soparate optical unit) from the item to the outside, to easy remove it from the item.