One thing that would be a really nice feature would be saved zoom points. Either by just saving the last location of zoomed in and zoomed out (pressing z toggles between 2 exact views while working) or even better, multiple saved views (based on zoom) assigned to the “1” “2” “3” “4” etc keys.
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Or zoom snapping
Ho @nathan interesting idea! Can you elaborate what you are trying to accomplish with saving zoom points? Is it to navigate around a space? Is it to recall a specific zoom and position?
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I’d probably use it within sessions while working on specific things to be able to toggle back-and-forth between two or three different views. Often I’m trying to zoom in and out of a problem in order to see it from different angles, and it would be really useful to be able to do that with a touch of a key.
Could be an interesting additional feature to include filters, but simply having the zoom and focus tied to a certain key would be extremely helpful.
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What if it was a combo shortcut , like z+2 goes to 20%, z+3 goes to 30% etc?
Yeah, that works great! Feels more intuitive being tied to “z” as well.
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shipped. you can now press z + numbers to jump to specific zoom percent levels
z + 3 = 30%, z + 4 = 40%, etc.
Not working for me. z + numbers toggles times, todos, and comments on cards.
Also, I misunderstood your earlier question. I think the combination of zoom and focal point is what I’m looking for. So it’s not just a certain % of zoom; it’s an exact zoom and panning to a specific point on the canvas. The idea is to be able to work “over here” for a bit and then come back to “over there” and to be able to go back and forth while working.
press and hold ‘z’ then while z is held down press a number. The intent is that if you’re working at 50% and then want to return to 50% then you can.
‘1’ , ‘2’, ‘3’ are pre-existing keyboard shortcuts for toggling those filters so unless the ‘z’ key is held down at the same time then those pre-existing shortcuts will fire.
If this is an undesired feature as is then please let me know and I’ll revert it to the previous behaviour
to do this then i would need to save zoom/scroll positions per space. I’m not sure that kind of effort is worth it for such an esoteric feature.
re-reading this thread, my recommendation is that you use boxes as markers of position/important parts, and use the minimap (via the ‘m’ key) to jump to them
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I’ll try that.
Maybe an intermediate solution could be to make the two zoom points (when hitting z over and over) persistent. So whatever zoom and scroll points were selected at the last “A” point when hitting z are exactly where it goes after hitting z for the “B” point, and so on. If one was to zoom to the “A” point and make a change, then zoom to “B,” then back to “A,” that “A” point would be exact where one left it. That could be super useful.
This is sort of getting at the same functionality of the side panel in Roam. Often it’s useful to be able to work on two parts of a project at once. While there’s no split screen in Kinopio, having “z” toggle between two set zoom/scroll points would be super useful.
Let me know if that isn’t clear.
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that makes sense,
so if drag on the slider and let go of the slider on 50% then ‘z’ will toggle you between 100% and 50%. If you press cmd-+ to increase the zoom to 60% , then ‘z’ will toggle you between 100% and 60% ?
Yes, but also includes scrolling.
It would be cool if both zoom points were persistent both with Zoom amount and scroll. With maybe modify our key to do a full zoom out and a full zoom in?
Did the zoom-in scroll position just become persistent?? I thought I remembered it being arbitrary before. Maybe I was wrong. But this persistence is great — almost gets me to what I was hoping for originally. The step would be a persistent scroll and zoom for the zoom-out. Then I could toggle between the two by just hitting “z” over and over.
if ‘z’ also snaps you back to a scroll position, you would not technically be able to set z to a different scroll position because everytime you pressed ‘z’ it would move you to the first saved scroll position
If I hit ‘z’ and it takes me to a certain spot, then I change the spot, then I hit ‘z’ again and it takes me someplace else, the next time I hit ‘z’ I would want it to take me to wherever I left off.
Basically, there would be two persistent zoom/scroll spots. Z toggles between them. Each time a zoom/scroll spot is manually changed, it is remembered for the next time the user hits ‘z’.
how would you “change the spot”?
Panning and zooming.
Right now ‘z’ toggles between 20% and 100%. This would make ‘z’ dynamic, toggling between “view A” and “view B,” each of which have their own zoom and scroll settings and are changed each time someone zooms or scrolls — like an auto-save for each view.
Hoping my latest post clarifies: Saved Zoom Points - #19 by nathan