Control the Vertical Positioning of Notes Manually

[b-camphart]

Right now, the notes are automatically arranged so that they're all visible. However, it may be beneficial to be able to either set all, or just override some, of the vertical positionings of the notes.

Considerations

• If users have set the vertical positionings of a few notes, then decide they want to automatically arrange them, then go back, the set vertical positionings should probably still be there. This would allow users to toggle it on and off without losing potentially a lot of work.
• Users should be able to easily clear the set position for a note, in case they want just that note to be automatically arranged
• Automatic arrangement should move other notes around the manual positions of notes.

Questions

• Should the vertical position be set for the note forever, per open timeline, per property, or per property within each timeline?

[sebastianstroyer]

I think you should make it per property

You could add the edited property to the list of properties that one can choose from The edited property could then default back to its "parent's" property for notes that haven't been given a manual position.

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Reformulated my proposal with ChatGPT: I propose setting the vertical position on a per-property basis. The edited property, once adjusted, could be added to the list of selectable properties for users to choose from. For notes that haven't been assigned a manual position, the edited property could default to its parent property. This way, users can easily toggle between automatic and manual arrangement without losing their work, and notes without specific manual positions will align with the default setting of their respective properties.