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0.11.0
A description keeps what you put in it. Blank lines between paragraphs were
dropped before a note could claim them, a plain bullet was neither task nor note
so fell out of the model altogether, and a fenced block indented under a task
toggled the document's fence state and swallowed the rest of the note. None of
it was destroyed — files are still edited one line at a time — but it was
invisible, and the first edit of such a note wrote the model back without it.
Blank lines are now held until a later line proves the note continues, so the
gap between two paragraphs is part of the note while the gap before the next
task is still separation. A bullet under a task is description, because nothing
else could claim it. A fence is only a fence when it is unindented.
A checkbox typed into a description stays in the description. On disk an
indented - [ ] x beneath a task is a step — the same bytes whichever was
meant — so what the box was given came back as two subtasks and a missing line.
Writing one now escapes it with a backslash, which markdown renders away, and
the two are told apart. Only newly written descriptions escape; a checkbox
already sitting under a task stays the step it has always been, so nothing on
disk needs migrating.
The description is at the top of the panel, and its links are live. It sat
last, behind the steps and five metadata rows, because that is where Microsoft
To Do puts it — an order that suits a list of short errands more than one where
the description is the task. Todoist, Things, Reminders and every issue tracker
put it under the title, and so does this now.
It was also drawn as plain text, which made the description the one place a URL
went to be unreachable. The card now holds two views of one field: the rendered
view sits there at rest so its links can be clicked, and the textarea arrives on
click, the way Obsidian's own editor behaves. Both are styled from the same box
and type so the text does not shift as they swap, and the column harness
measures that rather than trusting it. Post-it cards and row previews render
their descriptions too.
Clicking into a description puts the caret where you clicked, when the
description renders to the characters it is written with. A labelled link draws
shorter than it is written, so for those the caret goes to the end instead —
unhelpful rather than wrong.