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Multi‐line text field

ransome edited this page Oct 21, 2023 · 2 revisions

When the multi-line text field is enabled, it allows for the creation of todos with multiple lines. However, this deviates from the standard todo.txt format, where each line in a text file corresponds to a single todo item. To accommodate this, the multi-line todo is consolidated into one line by replacing line breaks with a specific character – the Data Link Escape (DLE). This character is inserted by sleek into the text file and should remain invisible within sleek.

This

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Will create this in the text file

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While most other applications should handle this character without issue, there is a possibility that it could disrupt the functionality of some applications. Please keep this in mind.

Bulk Todo Creation

When this setting is enabled, the multi-line text field can be used to create multiple todos simultaneously. Each line within the text field represents a distinct todo. If this setting is turned on, the number of todos to be created is displayed beside the Add/Update button in the todo dialog.

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