Text field editor popover

The text field editor popover is a small floating panel for editing a task's description or note in place. These are Operon's free-text fields, the ones you write sentences into rather than choose a value for. When a Table or embedded Table description or note column is in compact cell mode, clicking its compact cell opens this popover without opening the whole Task Editor or widening the column. It saves what you write when you close it.

MEDIA-DOCS-113-1: The text field editor popover open over a cell, showing its heading and editor.

MEDIA-DOCS-113-1 - The text field editor popover

What it looks like

The popover is a compact panel with three parts:

  • A heading with the field's name and, beneath it, the task's description so you know which task you are editing.
  • A multi-line editor for the text, focused and ready to type, with the cursor at the end of the current value.
  • A close control in the corner.

It picks up the task's color as an accent, and it floats above the surface you opened it from, so the table or board stays in place behind it.

Where it opens

The same popover control is shared across surfaces, with the save behavior following the surface that opened it:

Because it is one control, learning the panel once covers the places it appears. The exact text normalization can still differ by surface.

How editing works

The popover is built for a quick edit and out:

  • Type freely; the editor accepts multiple lines while it is open.
  • It saves when you dismiss it, by clicking away, pressing Escape, or using the close control. There is no separate save step; closing commits your text.
  • In the Table and embedded Table, saved line breaks are normalized to spaces before the change is written back. On the Kanban, internal line breaks can be preserved.
  • The change is written straight back to the task's Markdown, the same as any other edit, so it shows everywhere the task appears.

When to use it

Reach for the popover when you want to change one text field without the ceremony of the full editor:

  • Fix a typo in a description from a narrow, compact column.
  • Jot a quick note on a Kanban card without leaving the board.
  • Add text to a task's note while scanning a table.

When you need to change several fields at once, or work with the note as a full document, open the Task Editor instead.

FAQ

Which fields does it edit? Only a task's description and note, Operon's free-text fields. It does not open for other fields.

How do I save? Just close the popover, by clicking away, pressing Escape, or using the close control. Closing saves what you typed.

Is it the same on the Table and the Kanban? It is the same shared control, but the saved text is normalized by the surface that opened it. Table and embedded Table turn saved line breaks into spaces; Kanban can preserve internal line breaks.

Can I write more than one line? You can type more than one line in the editor. In the Table and embedded Table, those lines save back as one line with spaces between them.