"Visual cues" for notes: Very important for professional and user-focused UI design

There should be an option for notes to Right-click > Properties. Such information would at least include URL, date, and maybe word count / character count (useful to know for some web sites.) There should also be a Right-click > Visit Page option.

Here is why this is important: There is a serious lack of visual cues with Opera Notes. I was trying to figure out the source URL for some of my notes, and I was looking for a Right-click > Properties option. No such thing existed. I went into the IRC chat for help, and someone told me I can hover over the notes to see the URL that they were copied from, if applicable. It was a miss on my part, but I was looking for a visual cue.

And then another problem arised! How can I quickly visit these web pages? There is no Right-click > Visit Page option. A different user told me to double-click on the note, which actually worked. How was I supposed to know this? How could I have known it's even a supported feature? It's not discoverable, since there are no visual cues. Had I not asked in the IRC channel, and had there not been active users at the time, I would have still been stuck with this problem. A new user (or any user, really) does not run a piece of software and start doing random actions with their keyboard or mouse to "see what will happen."

The Opera developers and designers are not ignorant of visual cues: they provide them throughout the entire browser, context menus, and even with the guided mouse gestures they have "visual hints"! This is why the Notes should have the same concept of visual cues.

good thoughts

There are no keyboard shortcut or command for visit page either.

Just bumped into two more examples!

How do I open the note URL in a new tab? Just like there is no Right-click > Visit Page, there is no Right-click > Visit Page in New Tab. Ah! I know! If double-clicking a note opens the page in the current tab, then surely middle-click will open the page in a new tab! So that's what I did, and nothing. Nothing happens. Or did something happen? Did it instead copy the note? Copy the URL? Is this feature even supported? No visual cues or discoverability.

Speaking of which, how do I copy the note's URL? Is it even supported? Let's see. Single-click selects the note, which is obvious in any GUI. Double-clicking a note, to my earlier surprise, opens the note's URL if it is associated with a page. Interesting. And middle-clicking the note does... nothing? It didn't copy anything to the clipboard. Maybe CTRL + left-click? Nope. Lack of visual cues and discoverability.

This is easily fixed by simply adding the actions to the right-click context menu. Anything not supported (e.g, notes with no URL associated with them) can be greyed out:

Right-click > Properties
Right-click > Visit Page
Right-click > Visit Page in New Tab
Right-click > Copy URL

No guessing, no confusion, easily discoverable.

The ability to use keyboard/mouse shortcuts is not hindered by adding discoverable actions and visual cues to an interface. In fact, I believe discoverability should have priority over custom keyboard/mouse shortcuts. If a user still prefers to use keyboard/mouse shortcuts, he is free to do so. But just because we can copy text with CTRL + C, that doesn't mean we should remove "Copy" from the right-click context menu...