Hi Pierre,

Have been thinking about my IQ workflow and this has come to mind: IQ should have more readily available options for quick refiling of items both between and within grids.

Org Mode accomplishes this via the org-refile command:

When reviewing the captured data, you may want to refile or to copy some of the entries into a different list, for example into a project. Cutting, finding the right location, and then pasting the note is cumbersome. To simplify this process, you can use the following special command:
 

C-c C-w (org-refile)

Refile the entry or region at point. This command offers possible locations for refiling the entry and lets you select one with completion. The item (or all items in the region) is filed below the target heading as a subitem. Depending on org-reverse-note-order, it is either the first or last subitem.

By default, all level 1 headlines in the current buffer are considered to be targets, but you can have more complex definitions across a number of files. See the variable org-refile-targets for details. [...] If you would like to be able to create new nodes as new parents for refiling on the fly, check the variable org-refile-allow-creating-parent-nodes. When the variable org-log-refile is set, a timestamp or a note is recorded whenever an entry is refiled.

For other related commands, see Refile and Copy (The Org Manual).

Here is a video illustrating its use: Org mode | Refile this ....

As usual, I am probably not aware of all the many options IQ has to offer, but I see the user having these options to relocate an item:

1. drag to target via tab bar (flexible but slow and rather uncomfortable / unergonomic - visual feedback on the plus side)
2. cut, navigate to target manually, paste (flexible and more comfortable than 1. but not optimized with regard to typical, frequently used target locations - also with visual feedback)
3. use Properties Pane to add to top level of other grid, add auto-assign rule to remove item from source grid (closest to what I imagine but requires setting up rules and the Properties Pane is at the far edge of the screen in my setup, might not always be visible and the checkboxes are small so again, not something you want to have to do over and over again)
4. Probably ten other options I'm not aware of or am overlooking just now, like tags etc. ;-)

Unless there really is a fitting option under 4, I'd consider all of these options subpar for the purpose of quickly relocating items in a systematic fashion to a number of select locations, especially from something like an inbox to a handful of likely spots, e. g. a "defer" and "pending" grid or parent item, or in the course of a thematic sort of gathered information / research snippets.

What I would like to see:

1. Keyboard shortcuts to move items to a) other grids as TLIs and b) as subitems under specified parents either in the same or a different grid.
2. Drop targets to accomplish the same via drag and drop. These would have to be some kind of new UI element, preferably detachable / floating buttons or similar.
3. If a new UI element is not on the menu, maybe a kind of "transportation" grid in a detached pane would do, where you drop items under specific TLIs, from where they automatically disappear to be whisked away to the new location that each of the TLIs represents.

Any thoughts?

Many thanks!