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It might seem like a small thing - to let you select text in multiple blocks at once - but we had to upgrade nearly every one of Notion's features to understand the new selection model.

Take deleting a selection: Selections inside a block are easy: update that block to remove the characters. But, how should it work if you select across blocks? Only removing characters leaves behind empty blocks. Deleting a parent block makes its contents disappear too...

If you do this kind of delete in Google Docs or Pages, those trailing lines after the selection end up weirdly over-indented; your outline is broken and you need to manually correct the indentation on every line.

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When you delete across blocks in

@NotionHQ

, we need to move the contents indented inside those deleted blocks somewhere that makes sense in your outline. Your ideas stay organized.

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This is one of countless interactions we updated. My hope is that writing in

@NotionHQ

will feel more intuitive, more natural, and less surprising - while still letting you outline and organize in the ways that've always made it great.

On a personal note, as a student I dreamed of working on apps like

@OmniOutliner

and Apple's Pages that set a high bar for user experience. This year, I feel like my work is finally starting to reach that same level 📈

Andy Matuschak

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