Visual Editor

This page contains notes about the improvements I would like to make to the Visual Editor

Improvements

• Allow upload PDF
• Links
  • Make them more visible; somehow include some color coding of the area or project of the destination page
• Allow highlighting text
  • Yellow: important
  • Blue: follow-up needed (mostly used on Idea notes and Study notes).
  • Green: words whose definition I might not know; if you hover over the word, a tooltip automatically shows the meaning
  • Red: needs attention (possible mistake, typo, etc.)
• Optionally disable the Summary box that opens after you click Save changes.
• Bullet lists
  • I would like to be able to expand/contract subsections and I can specify if I want it open or closed by default
• Header Expansion to a New Page
  • A button on each page, when clicked a popup lists all Sub-Heading2 and above headers; user checks the box next to one or more headers. If you select a header, all sub-headers below it become greyed out, because they will travel with the header. User clicks Expand and those headers are removed from the current page and a new page is created for each checked box with the page title equal to the former header text
  • Remove the header and all content below the head from the existing wiki page
  • Create a new page called HeaderName with an intro sentence referencing the originating page
  • The content below the header is added under a header called Imported from <page_name>.
  • Each time a user uses this feature, it should be logged so it can be tracked in the Leader Boards
• List Expansion to Headers: similar to header expansion

Approach

Contact the maintainers of the Visual Editor and others influential in the community and mention that I am interested in adding features and ask for feedback on making enhancements to the existing Visual Editor or creating an entirely new editor.