Auto-reveal of formatting bar gets annoying
Currently, if you select text, a bar slides up from the bottom of the window, with formatting controls. One issue with this is that you don't always select text in order to format it. For example, sometimes you select text to delete. This can result in the bar popping up and down as you edit, which gets annoying fairly quickly.
I know that we've been back and forth on the design of this feature. (The original design used a floating popover that showed when text was selected, but that proved difficult to implement correctly - we could never get the popover to appear when and where it was supposed to.) So I think that this deserves some thought.
Options that I can see:
- Drop formatting altogether
- Permanently show the formatting bar
- Allow the user to manually toggle whether the formatting bar is shown
- Put the formatting options in a popover, that's shown from the header bar
Regarding 1, a lot of notes apps don't have formatting at all, so it's not a ridiculous idea. That said, it's something that I personally find very useful.
I'd also say that, personally speaking, having formatting options in a drop down feels like hard work - this is how it is in Tomboy/Gnote and I've never got on with it that well.