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. Itās 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 donāt use it, too much frustration. Itās 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 ideasā¦
Iām 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
Got feedback from a client that they found it weird that views have the drag and drop handles in rich text field, but everything else doesnāt. They migrated from notion.
I shared with them that they can press escape, but itās indeed something thatās quite hard to find.
Notion is essentially the gold standard here.
