Automattic / Automattic/simplenote-electron

Select multiple notes for bulk action - i.e. tagging, trashing several notes at once

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Description

### What

The ability to select more than one note in the side bar navigation pane. Ideally using 'Shift-click' or check boxes.

### Why

This will allow the ability to reorganize notes, for example apply a tag to multiple notes at once, trash multiple notes at once etc.
This is especially a necessary for new adopters, wishing to import notes from other platforms. After the import re-organization is needed, and with a large library of notes it is not a small task if notes need to be modified/tagged individually.

For someone like myself, having hundreds of notes, re-organizing individual notes, one at a time, would take hours. There are times when I need to trash or re tag multiple notes due to change in work/study etc. Having to do this one at a time is not an option.

### How

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start by locating the sidebar navigation and the existing single-note tagging and trash actions. Define how multi-selection should work, including Shift-click or checkboxes, then verify that selected notes can be reorganized, tagged, and trashed together.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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