Leading spaces to format lists
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Matthew Roberts
I noticed in the last week or so Heidi seems to have lost the ability to have leading spaces at the start of a line in order to show that something is a list. So whereas before it would produce stuff like this:
- Heading 1
- item 1
- item 2
- Heading 2
- item 3
- item 4
Now it looks like this:
- 1 Heading
- item 1
- item 2
- Heading 2
- item 3
- item 4
It seems like the text is still generated the same so I'm wondering if this is something happening AFTER the LLM is generating the text, that the leading spaces are getting deleted somehow when Heidi displays the output from the LLM? It definitely makes the notes harder to read and also triggers my OCD so I end up wasting time putting the spaces in.
Edit: looks like the lists get automatically reformatted here so I'll attach a screenshot to show what I mean.
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Matthew Roberts
My latest work-around for this is to have instructions in each template to use "- " for lists and "-- " for sub lists. Not the prettiest but it works without me having to do extra editing! Not sure why this hasn't been fixed yet, it seems super basic!
Canny AI
Merged in a post:
Indentation of sub-points when bullet points are used.
Keng-Yu Chuang
Please indent the sub-points when bullet points are used to improve visualization.
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Matthew Roberts
I found a better work-around. I add the following text to all my templates:
(use "• " to indicate list items, and, if necessary, use " ├ " to indicate sub-items in lists, and " └" to indicate the final sub-item in a list)
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Matthew Roberts
I stopped doing this because sometimes it screwed it up, and if I had to edit the note it was extra work to copy and paste the special characters.
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Matthew Roberts
The work-around for now is 1) wait for the note to format 2) in the "ask Heidi anything" field at the bottom type "reformat with leading spaces to clearly show list sub-items" 3) Copy the result 4) Click on the note, hit Ctrl-A to select everything, then Ctrl-V to paste
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Matthew Roberts
I confirmed that this is a problem with Heidi displaying the text generated by the LLM, not the LLM itself. If I ask Heidi to reformat the note with leading spaces in lists, it shows the note formatted correctly at the bottom of the screen, but then when I click "replace note", the note reloads but the formatting is still incorrect with no leading spaces. Below is a screenshot where I copied the output from asking it to reformat the note with leading spaces into notepad (shown at the top) and at the bottom the result when I ask it to replace the note with the same text (I changed the details to protect patient information)