cc @pano9000 since you might find it interesting

I personally loathe the "automatic read-only" feature as I think it provides a poor user experience. This is the only application I've ever seen that even has something like this, and I don't think most users even know it's a feature...

It comes as a "surprise" since it wasn't initiated by the user

I have tried what you did in the screen record, but I couldn't reproduce it. Is that somehow fixed? Could you try it again in latest develop? Or any specific setup?

Yep, it still happens on the latest develop @JYC333.

1. Changed my Text Note "automatic read-only" size to 50 characters
2. Create new Text Note, type in < 50 characters.
3. If you're on a Desktop App, sync.
4. After sync, go back to the new Text Note with < 50 characters, type to >50 characters
5. Hit sync if on desktop (or just wait 5s if you're on the webapp)
6. Kaboom, duplicated text and data loss 😂
7. If you keep typing in that Text Note, leave it, and then navigate to it, everything that you typed after the >50 character sync will be lost

Ok, so it's happened with sync? I'll try it again tomorrow.

Yeah, the video posted at the top was recorded within Chrome - so the sync was happening "invisibly" :)

For further reference:

• The issue is not related to the sync, but you need to click near the bottom of the note to trigger a refresh which calculates again whether the note is read-only or not.
• The issue has existed since the OG Trilium, not a regression on our side.