This is a preview of something we have been internally testing, along with exploring a couple possible future Pro features:
We have bent over backwards in various ways over the years, trying to avoid visible buttons like this in Clear. (Reminders especially, the way it used to be ‘add reminder’ visible whenever you created an item in 1.x)
Meanwhile there have always been some feature requests that I agree would be useful, but there is only so much we can tuck and hide away in gestures, especially without adding more and more that has to be explicitly taught to new users and aren’t easily discoverable.
So we are trying out this toolbar, that would include reminder toggle, the current header/caption text formatting options, and room for potential pro features.
I don’t want to specifically hype those feature ideas because we’re still experimenting with them, but the two we are looking at are simple ‘repeating tasks’ that would regenerate on clearing them away, and nested listing. Two very long-running and popular requests, that I feel are much more justified with Pro gating and framing.
I think the major tradeoffs are:
(Positive) Can help enable some more power user/pro functions in Clear
(Positive) Discoverable, simple, and more obvious for the features moved into it
(Negative) Some added minor distraction, to Clear’s pristineness, while adding or editing. But it’s somewhat mitigated IMO by designing it as an extension of the keyboard and separated in this way from your content.
For the purists who prefer Clear at its most minimal, we would probably include a setting where you can simply hide the toolbar, if you don’t need its functions.
Let me know what you all think! We really want to make sure a design change like this is very solid, if we’re to ship it.
