While in the note editor on desktop and iPad, allow us to use a selective filter that can select OR filter text with certain attributes such as:

• All text in the note that has any background color
• or a certain background color or set of background colors
• optionally bolded, or italicized or a certain heading level or other style attribute

Once this has been filtered, allow us to create a thought attached to the current thought (child, parent or jump) with the filtered text as the new thought's note including the source text's style attributes intact. The filtered text can optionally be sorted and/or grouped in the order of appearance in the note or grouped by selected attributes. Alternatively, let us copy the filtered text to the clipboard including its style attributes and ordering/grouping along with a link reference to the source thought/note.