Add Attachments to Standalone Notes

walker9

I would like to use the Add Attachments functionality with standalone notes, but it is not possible now.

adamsmith

I don't think that's going to happen. What's the use case? Why not attach both attachment and note to a parent item?

bwiernik

(I use the 'Document' item type for this, which is otherwise rather useless.)

walker9

If I have a note, I could just attach a local file to it. Otherwise, if I have the note first, I must:
1. Create a Document item
2. Drag the note under it
3. Add a link to the file.

But perhaps the note functionality is rather basic. You also can't add child notes to standalone notes. You can't create a parent item from a standalone note either.

I use notes quite extensively that do not refer to references, so this would extend the note functionality.

bwiernik

In your workflow, I would recommend switching to making Document items, then adding notes, attachments, links, etc. to them. Under the hood, Note items are a very different type of data structure than Parent Items, so I don't think there will be an option to add attachments, child notes, etc. to standalone notes.

Being able to Create a parent item for a note would be nice though (@dstillman).