Click to edit

[jeremybagel]

I know this is kind of covered by the 3 dot contextual menu but the "normal" behaviour I'd expect would be to click to edit (I do this all the time) so find myself clicking at the reminder without being able to. Probably an enhancement rather than a bug but it would be rather helpful.

[DamascenoRafael]

Hi @jeremybagel. Thanks for the feedback.
In Apple Reminders, text behaves like a textfield, but there are some issues with this approach.
I was thinking that when clicking on the reminder text the editing screen could open with the text in focus to be edited.

Let me know what you think about this solution:

Screen.Recording.2023-05-07.at.13.32.48.mp4

[jeremybagel]

That works for me! What are the issues with editing it in situ?

[DamascenoRafael]

Great! We might rethink in the future the option to edit the reminder directly in the list.

Some issues that I remember that should be addressed in this approach:

• In a previous attempt (Solving issue #27 edit reminder when tap on text #82) the textfield in macOS Monterey had a different background than in more recent versions of macOS. Would need to investigate to make the background transparent on all supported versions of macOS.
• It would be necessary to check whether using multiple textfields instead of texts would affect performance when many items are displayed.
• It would be necessary to manage textfields edits to save the changes. Waiting for the user to press return for exemple could cause multiple textfields to be in an edit state without the changes being saved at the same time.

[jeremybagel]

If I may:

1. Seems reasonable.
2. Seems like a feat that can be easily overcome.
3. The return or click out is an auto save. Multiple edits wouldn’t be an option since any single edit automatically commits. (It’s not a thousand word dissertation, any commits should be happily resolved.)