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Now that there has been fresh movement with the surprise release of CN 3.14 (congrats by the way), is this being considered for v4.0? It would be a real time saver.

Yes, it looks very similar but with slightly different wording to describe (more or less) the same thing - a direct and quick method to view/edit notes from a list.

That is impressive! I am really looking forward to the next release now. Thanks for sharing the mock up.

You are right, of course. It is not necessary to close a note first before editing the next one. And for a small(-ish) number of notes that works perfectly well.

My suggestion comes from the time where I had to manually edit a larger list of notes, one after another. That's where it would be invaluable to be able to work through each note quickly, without having to switch back and forth between the list and the editor.

But now that gives me an idea for a workaround: I could export a list to an XML file, edit the note contents with a text/XML editor and then re-import it. I have not tried this but the XML import feature works very well, so should be ok.