Checkvist story

Expand list options and a handful of fixes

Hello, everyone!

First, a little feature for those loving long and nested lists: expand options. I remember an email from one of our favourite customers during the first months of Checkvist public existence. He sent us an example of his list - a plot of a novel, for god’s sake, and explained why expanding from level 1 to 4 is so important for him. I do not know how many of you write novel plots with our tool, but even for less complicated endeavors the new feature can be rather useful.

The new options here are “Expand to level” and “Show notes”, “Hide notes” which are similar to options we have on the Print screen. The dialog window can be invoked from any place by typing ec (toolbars are not very helpful when you are in the middle of a large list) and is completely keyboard navigable.

Other fixes and improvements include:

• Added smooth scrolling to make dialogs and edit fields visible, thank you for suggesting this.
• Fixed the problem when a new task field is shown under “Fresh updates”, again - thank you for letting us know.
• Fixed broken layout on Tags tab in Chrome/Safari
• Fixed bug when the read-only list title was editable
• Changed default expand level of the public lists: now all tasks besides the top level are collapsed, so the readers don’t get overwhelmed by details from the very beginning.
• Fixed several JavaScript errors on public checklist view
• Made Fresh Updates note memorizable across browsers (now you don’t have to close that yellow bar in every browser you work with Checkvist.

And finally, we’ve worked hard to speedup all the collapse/expand operations. The good news is that we’ve succeeded and the bad is that after this server update Checkvist has forgotten the last collapse/expand state of your lists. Sorry for that, but we believe the benefits worth it :)