Handles can show on-mouseover (particularly if the area is targeted to only near the left, outside the text area slightly) which makes them discoverable but not overwhelming. Discoverability is critical to getting any adoption of this feature and therefore making it worth maintaining or even improving.
Personally I find the current implementation novel but clunky. It’s difficult - if not impossible - to get it to treat dropping of blocks into indented areas correctly, for example. Because it has not been reliable I simply don’t use it, too much frustration. It’s one of those things that kind of needs to work really well, or not at all, and in that sense the barrier to implementation and adoption is high Notion is essentially the gold standard here.
That said I am glad to see this being experimented with! A lot of people still really love and want block-based editing. I hope a good implementation can be arrived at without too much further effort. You might take a read through this for some ideas…
I’m a heavy user of ordered and unordered lists and have spent most of this week copying bullet points into Notion/Coda to rearrange and then back into Fibery
Are there any plans to continue improvements here? Working with anything below the first tier of a list is still quite challenging.
Oh yes, please. That is one of the few main pain points I have limiting efficiency in Fibery, along with lacking keyboard shortcuts.
On the point of efficiency, I strongly suggest having a look at how Superhuman have solved shortcuts etc
Notion is essentially the gold standard here.
