[Feature Request] save cursor position

[tessus]

/ref https://discourse.joplin.cozic.net/t/save-cursor-position-within-the-note

Summary:

Every time one switches between notes, the cursor position is reset to the top of the note.
When working with a few notes simultaneously, this behavior can be rather tedious.

I would like to add that in my opinion it is not necessary to sync the courser position between devices because where I want to work on a note depends on the device so it would be something stored locally.

[tessus]

@nr458h you also got a point. I believe there are use cases for both (save locally, sync). The nicest would be an option to choose, but I think @laurent22 doesn't consider a sync option due to performance reasons anyway.

[tessus]

@laurent22 I am not sure, if this belongs in this ticket, but what about the status of the current note? Whenever I switch to a different notebook, the first note is selected. In my opinion, it should always select the last note that was used.

Maybe we should rename this issue to save status of note which would include the last edited note within a folder/notebook and the cursor position within the note.

What do you think?

[sciurius]

I think it makes sense to store the cursor position in the metadata to keep track of the last place modifications were made. The overhead would be neglectible, since the note is going to be synched anyway.
I think it does not make sense if just browsing/scrolling through a note would lead to its physical modification.

[Outi-s]

Knowing where you were editing and picking it up from there on another device would be sweet.

On Joplin desktop (Windows), if you press ctrl & click, you can edit multiple lines or items at once. Thank you @laurent22 for that btw.
The question is, are all the cursor positions saved? That'd be waste.

Also, if someone has a lot of notes, won't all that metadata be heavy? I mean I love the sync speed of Joplin, wouldn't want to trade it for this.

[hfccgit]

In my opinion, remembering the cursor position is not always a good idea.

In my case, I have different sections in the same note so I write in different places randomly according to my needs. If it starts from the top/bottom, it is easier for us to find the section we are looking by scrolling (if we are in the middle, we might not know if we have to go up or down).

For that reason, I would suggest to add it as a preference in general options (remember position/start top, start bottom).

[laurent22]

@hfccgit, I guess you mean for the mobile app? Because on desktop you can tell where you are based on the scrollbar. On mobile, maybe the problem is that the scrollbar is not visible and there should be some indicator (like "Pos: 58%") to show this.

[tessus]

@hfccgit

In my opinion, remembering the cursor position is not always a good idea.

In that case you are rather the odd person out. Every text editor and frontend usually remembers the last cursor position.

I would suggest to add it as a preference in general options (remember position/start top, start bottom)

This is certainly a great idea. However, if there's only one choice, I'd rather be able to start editing where I left off.

[tessus]

@hfccgit e.g. one could also follow it to the other extreme. I'd love to be able to sync the cursor position and last accessed notes across devices, but I am afraid a lot of people do not want this behavior.