Better discoverability for inverted filtering

[andrei-a-papou]

I accidentally just discovered that you can Ctrl-click on a priority badge under "Attributes" tab and "invert" the filtering of todos. E.g. you can search for all todos with a priority of "non-A" this way. I think it's a useful feature (Simpletask offers it as well), but I think some kind of hint in the UI would be useful to help people discover it?

[ransome1]

@andrei-a-papou I agree and the usage data confirms your assumption. It is already on the backlog of 2.0.7 (https://github.com/users/ransome1/projects/3/views/1) but I'm glad to use this issue here instead. If you like you can use the feature request template and describe the implementation you would expect.

[amariusz]

That's a nice feature! It's probably not documented anywhere?

Mentioning modifier keys with LMB in https://github.com/ransome1/sleek/wiki/Keyboard-shortcuts could be good enough IMO.

[ransome1]

I added the shortcut to the list: https://github.com/ransome1/sleek/wiki/Keyboard-shortcuts#drawer

But I doubt this solves the issue at hand. If users need to check the list of shortcuts to discover features, I think we should work out another angle as well. I was thinking about using the hovering state of an attribute somehow.

[ransome1]

I actually removed the Ctrl behavior in 2.0.7. Not because it was hard to find, but foremost because I think it is simply not how these kind of features should work. In the latest released I am proposing a different behavior. If a user hovers a filter button in the attribute drawer, the counter in the badge will change to an icon, which indicates the exclusion.

Click on the eye icon will then exclude todos which contain this filter.

[andrei-a-papou]

Click on the eye icon will then exclude todos which contain this filter.

Thank you, works great. Good UX, in my opinion.