The issue with being able to pin notes is that the start of the “MAIN” Notes list gets cluttered quicky after pinning just a few notes. So, then, for me to simply access my most recent “UNPINNED” note, I have to first scroll down past everything that is pinned to the top of the Notes list. It is weird having to deal with this issue when I literally just moments ago wrote a new note and yet it is no where near the top of the list for me to quickly access. I LOVE the idea of pinned noted, but the feature can be improved past simply shoving a note at the top of the Notes section.
It would be great if there was the option to just pin notes to a specific tag. So, for example, if I go to my “#health” tag, I want it to simply show the pinned notes that are related to health, and so on…
I prefer that pinned notes show up up top across all views. It allows me to “unbury” notes I need to work on in the next week and then I see them in all my views.
It’s also a more consistent design language:
Pinning a note causes it show go to the top in any view in which the note appears
Instead of:
Pinning a note causes it to go to the top for any view in which the note appears except the Notes view.
As far as I have understood the op he doesn‘t want another place for pinned notes but a tag based approach rather than a global one. The argument is: You can get a clumpy long list because the all pinned notes are collected in each tag. Insofar I support his request
I mean that. That prevents those clumsy lists of pinned notes, especially in the all section.
@Acinity may say some what he exactly meant. When reading the opening post the first time I also asked where to show pinned notes else if not at the top of notes list.
Bear already does what you ask within tags. Click or tap a tag on the left and, using your example of #health, only pinned notes with a health tag display at the top. The notes view (that displays all notes) shows all pins. That is what that view should do. It is very consistent and expected behavior. It seems this is where you want the ability to limit which pins display so you wouldn’t have to scroll so much. I think changing how tags and pins work would be confusing. Maybe a feature like collapsing pinned notes in the note list would make more sense. You can also mitigate the scrolling “problem” by other means, such as @xierox suggests, or what I do is I have a few pinned notes that I add links within to important notes.
Nobody asked to change that behaviour where a note is pinned at the top inside the tag from where it was pinned. A pinned note is shown pinned in each tag and also in each section (all, untagged, ToDo,…), means: in all note lists where this note appears, not only in that tag where it was pinned. As everything is a matter of preference many users in so far several threads has critized this global approach and asked for tag based pinning
I actually prefer the current behavior where all pinned notes comes on top of Notes list. But I use the pinning very sparingly, and have introduced a special tag: #.flagged (that is also pinned to top of Tag list)
An “empty” note titleled ## ==.Flagged== with this tag is always left there, so it’s easy to drag notes over even when no other notes are flagged:
You are actually confirming our criticism of global pinning by removing its consequences and introducing an additional tag. Pinning a note here and there will certainly not lead to the problem that some people are pointing out.
Many tags can be introduced, each with its own function: #flagged, #starred or #favorite for example. The question is now: What is pinning good for if you anyway can use tags?
I pin notes that I want to access quickly without having to search for them in the notes list. These are notes which are at least temporarily important or I am currently working on. Generally spoken, at some point I am going to unpin them, for sure not all but the most. The importance of the pinned notes is based on the context in which I pin them. That’s why it has no significance for me at least that they also appear pinned in other contexts.
Apart from the lack of usefulness, however, the annoyances that the OP also reports arise. In the “all notes” list, every note ever pinned appears at the top. Above a certain number of notes, exactly this clumsy list is created. And this is despite the fact that this notes list has its own function, which is why you visit it and why the visibly pinned notes are a nuisance. Another example of many: From a certain number of notes with to-dos, it makes sense to pin the one to three most important ones in order to gain immediate and effortless access to them as soon as you display the notes list in the to-do section. But what sense does it make to display these pinned notes in all other sections or tags?
Local pinning does not necessarily mean that differentiation should be made at the subtag level. The ability to pin independently within each section alone would be a great help. And I wouldn’t have anything against pinning independently within a tag family either.
