Similar to The Brain, where ideas can be inter-connected and not just "nested", we can duplicate a parent node and paste it somewhere, and if one is updated, the other is also updated. It will make Moodo the ultimate app.

Example:

Books
-Productivity
--Getting Things Done by David Allen <- copy link to node

Projects
-Current projects
--Improve my productivity
----(past link) -> Getting Things Done by David Allen -> (now I can take notes for the book here, which will also be updated in my "books" archive)

It opens up doors for so many uses for connecting notes together and organizing our information.

Would love to have the ability to do this, on some occasions: use drag-and-drop (especially between panes) to clone an item to its destination spot, rather than move it there.

This feature would have so many useful applications for certain kinds of kanban tasks, especially. (Hence the focus on moving between panes … but I could see how it would be useful in the general outline as well).

A keyboard shortcut — say, hold down key while dragging and dropping — is one respectable solution.

Given the connection with certain kinds of kanban/sorting tasks, though: I EXTRA EXTRA like the idea of being able to freeze a whole pane into a ‘clone from’ mode. With this mode on, ANYTHING from that pane which is dragged somewhere into another pane would be cloned to its destination, rather than moved there. The original would be retained in some safe, original spot in the outline; while only a copy would be reassigned to some second more obscure spot in the outline. Lots of great applications for this kind of feature. Again, though, this isn’t the only solution.

However, some option to use drag-and-drop to create a cloned item in destination spot, rather than move it there, would be excellent.

Many thanks!

Associating items with +contacts or creating custom #tags (as described at https://www.moo.do/blog/project-management/#tagging) are both very limited.

The problem with +contact is that there's no way to differentiate between those that are assigned to the item and those that are mentioned because they are relevant in some way, such as someone I need to call.

The problem with #tags is that it's very limited. It only supports a very narrow range of use cases where the people who can access the Moo.do file actively assign items to themselves or check to see what's been assigned to them. For example:
1. There's no way to prevent notifications for items that are explicitly assigned to other peoples' tags.
2. It's also impossible to assign a task to somebody who is not privy to the specific Moo.do file (which could theoretically be accomplished using emails, or managing permissions, despite Moo.do files sitting on Google Drive).
3. When there are just a couple people working on a project/board/workspace/whatever, a tag-based convention can be very effective, but when you're working with a larger team, or managing a family schedule, the convention just don't hold up. Non-techies (mostly) just don't "get" it.

There are other use cases, but I hope I got the main point across.

I'd like to suggest that another prefix be added that explicitly denotes assignment.
* I suggest the ampersand (&). It's a familiar symbol, doesn't conflict with other symbols, doesn't have an obvious and therefore confusing meaning (like $ or %), and rarely shows up at the beginning of a word.
* It would work a lot like +contact, so it would be highlighted.
* It would be searchable (e.g., "&John or &Joe" would show items assigned to one or both of them).
* It would affect notifications. Assigned items with due dates and times would only notify the assignees.
* It would be possible to sort/prioritize items assigned to &me on the agenda or other boards.
* Ideally, I'd also like to be able to share by assigning, so someone new would be invited somehow, or maybe even managed completely by email. I know this gets complex, but even just differentiating assignees from mentions and random tags would be immensely useful.

I'm definitely not ruling out other approaches, but without a better way to assign items, I can't get other people to join me on Moo.do, which means that I end up using other, far inferior tools, which makes my life much more complicated than it needs to be.

In order to facilitate migration from other outliners, you should allow the importing of the Notes field inthe OPML files. Currently the OPML import works well but only includes the text in the [OutlineText] tag.

Most other (even less powerful) outliners support doing full exports into the OPML file format inlcuding their notes. The file includes a [Notes] tag that brings notes from each item from the system/service you are moving your info from. See this example:

<outline text="Very portable sub notebook computer for downloading, reviewing and editing." Checkbox="0" Notes="If you really want to travel light you can always pack extra memory cards and shoot raw and convert and edit in camera during down times."/>

Please allow the importing of the [Notes] tag in the OPML file. This will help you bring more adopters that have hundreds of items in other less powerful outliners that don't want to retype their stuff again.

Since the latest major release the hotkeys for navigating have become way more powerful :)

There's still a frequent motion that I find myself reaching for the mouse though.

That's moving focus from currently selected line to it's parent, skipping any other visible siblings on the way. While doing this, I don't want to change what I see on the screen by collapsing or zooming items, so can't use those shortcuts.

For example:
Parent
Child1
Child2
Child3
Sibling
Child4

If my focus is on Child3, I don't think there's a way to immediately jump up to the Parent, without going via Child2 then Child1 then Parent.

Secondly, if I'm focused on the Parent and want to jump to Sibling, I have to either:
- go via each child of Parent,
- collapse Parent and move down (I still want the children visible)
- Use Alt+J to jump (this is still slightly longer, I have to enter the node name)
- Use the mouse :(

The new Alt-J jump feature is good and I'm trying to use this more, but it's still a longer workaround than simple keys such as Alt Up or Ctrl Up or something like that.

Linking two other ideas that are along similar themes:

[Best and easier way to navigate, open, close, and zoom in lists with keyboard shortcuts (the same shortcuts that WorkFlowy has for instance) – Customer Feedback for Moo.do](https://feedback.moo.do/forums/274238-general/suggestions/13255179-best-and-easier-way-to-navigate-open-close-and)

[Control + arrow keys combination to navigate and open/collapse and zoom in/ zoom out – Customer Feedback for Moo.do](https://feedback.moo.do/forums/274238-general/suggestions/15337044-control-arrow-keys-combination-to-navigate-and-o)