Use case or problem
Many applications have ways to pin text and data to the top of the current page/view that stays fixed as you scroll the page.
Here are some examples:
It would be extremely useful to have stuff like important tasks pinned to the top of a note (like a floating collapsible callout)
It could also be used to pin quotes, image banners, reminders, notifications, unread links (to Terms of Service/Licenses)
Proposed solution
see HTML - Fixed Header (see above, because “new users can only post 5 links”)
for displaying the data, see folding/collapsible callouts
- a collapsible callout may be the best move for displaying pinned data, so that you can pin multiple items
Example implementations:
maybe we could make use of the ! at the beginning of a line?
I recommend a way to do a multiline pin as well. Something like this, so you could pin a list:
!!!
This is an important and blaring reminder-message-notification-thingy
- I want you to do these things, before touching my document
- [ ] just don't touch it
- [ ] please, I worked on this very hard
!!!
Maybe use it to replicate the excel freeze row feature:
| col 1 name | col 2 name
| --------------------- | ----------
! | freeze up to this row | ....
| ... a billion rows that makes it hard to track
Maybe add the ability to dynamically pin a row based on scroll position (there’s a few different variants in here:)
! Fixed Pinned Mesage that doesn't ever dissappear
...
... a million lines of markdown
...
!* Dynamically pinned message that only shows once you've scrolled past it
...
... a million lines of markdown
...
!!!*
Dynamically pinned message that replaces the previous dynamic one
- multiline dynamically, pinned message
!!!
...
... a million lines of markdown
...
!** Maybe even add support for dynamic sub-messages (like subheadings) that would display like this, once you've scrolled to this spot:
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(top of viewport)
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Fixed Pinned Message that doesn't ever dissappear
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Dynamically pinned message that replaces the previous dynamic one... â–Ľ
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Maybe even add support for sub-messages like subheadings that would display like this, once you've scrolled to this spot:
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(where "â–Ľ" is the button to expand the multiline pinned message)
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