Bulk feature requests, and quality of life suggestions

[zer0boi]

So I've been testing the app for a while now and taking notes, so here's what i believe could be improved so far:

1. More fine grained settings for things such as the note text preview amount and text size (eg instead of a slider between 20 40 60 80 and 100, giving the option to use any number between 1 and 100, and applying this logic to all customizations for greater freedom)

2. custom color: the json string on the site doesn't involve that blue strip on the homepage that says "notes". But I'd suggest anyways removing the json approach and instead implementing a UI color picker (that alro allows you to type a color value instead of just giving a bunch of options) for all the different components

3. Hiding the ".md" extension when editing the note title (or giving the option to do so)

4. The option to make notes opening default as editing mode instead of view mode

5. Bug: scrolling when the preview is set to a big number, eg 80, is buggy (the issue disappeared when the length was 20)

6. Changing the above blue strip that says "notes" with something else more useful, maybe a breadcrumbs bar or a stats bar (eg number of notes and stuff)? Or actually maybe a stats bar that chsnges to a breadcrumbs when entering a folder

7. an option to see the file size/ words count/ date on the preview, maybe on the top right corner or anywhere standard or pretty

8. in notes previews, make the end of the preview be a fading off effect or 3 dots "..." Instead of an abrupt cut off

9. An option to "squish together" the previewed content of the note (basically removing the linrbreaks in the preview), and an option to toggle on/ off view mode in the previews (eg showing the "#text" as it is instead of making the word "text" big)

10. The ability to pin notes/ folders

11. Right to left writing support (eg for arabic)

12. On entering a file path to the "add image" option i was confused for why didn't the picture show, until realizing a "http://" was inserted. Copying an imagr from the web auto copies "http://" as well usually, so maybe this feature gotta go

13. makeing the + button only create notes, having a different one for the other action such as creating a folder/ drawing

14. Tagging: there's this app "tagspace" that integrates the tags directly in the titles (eg "a test not[tag].md"). I don't know ahout others but this feels way more elegent for me, so I'll highly recommend making this 1 of 2 tagging systems users could choose from

15. Smarter markdown features: this is more of a longer term vision, to implement things like being able to select a bunch of lines and with a button add a numbering extention at the beginning ("1. 2. 3."), detecting if the numbering is not right or not and fixing it (eg: if a series is "1. 2. 4. 5." Then pressing the numbering button should fix it to "1. 2. 3. 4.") or making creating markdown tables easy (eg: eith a ui popup table to write in the colums first before inserting the markdown table) And other such things, i thought of pointing that this will be a good direction to develop towards. I'd recommend looking at other apps such as markor for inspiration.

This is what i got so far, hope they're implementable

[RoBoT095]

I appreciate the feedback, I like some of the suggestions, I am mainly working on a library to allow me to not use the "All file access" permission on android, but there are a few things I could probably knock out quickly before starting the backend rewriting process.

2, App follows androids material you design where it only uses primary, secondary, tertiary, and background/surface and their opposites so it would be a big task to rewrite everything to allow a CSS like approach which I have thought about a good amount before adding the more customization options. The answer I arrived at is that this is a fairly simple notes app, so crazy customization is overkill, even what is in the app now.

5, I am aware of it, I have tried fixing it to no success, I don't understand why it keeps unloading the items.

7, There is an info option in the vertical 3 dot "more" menu that has character count, word count, file size, modify date, and file location. I could see adding word/character count in the corner on larger screens, I feel like it could feel a bit cramped on smaller screens, though.

9, I don't understand what you mean here, are you talking about disabling the markdown rendering?

12, Good idea, I could maybe add logic to remove the extra http:// when submitting, it was a thing that came from the toolbar I used and not something I personally implemented, I usually do the markdown manually and kinda rarely use the toolbar outside of the table builder.

13, I barely understand how the markdown library I used works, but I still try to add on to it, hence why I moved the library code directly into app instead of just simply importing it and using it as is.

I have tried a lot of different MD apps in the process of making this one, the whole reason I made this app was because I couldn't find one that matched all my requirements, and yes I looked at markor a lot, especially when I was adding CSV support.

[zer0boi]

thanks for the reply (Btw did you mean you'll be able to knock out the ones you didn't mention?)

2. it isn't an important feature especially since the pre existing themes are great (some of them like strawberry have overly strong colors tho), so this one could be slipped in favor of important stuff

3. at least using small values fixes the issue, but I'm not sure of what's the cause of the bug either so good luck with it 👍

4. i could see how there's no space currently for extra info on the notes preview, but minimizing friction (eg: having info effortlessly visible instead of a bunch of clicks away) is almost always superior, and this is one area i believe could use this principal

5. i meant 2 things for the notes previews, 1 an option to allow disabling markdown rendering, and 2 an option to remove the linebreaks in the previews, for example if a note looks like this:
   "headline: a note
   text
   text
   body text
   more text"

then in rendering it should look like this:
"headline: a note
text text body text more text"

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and since I'm here, here are more suggestions i thought of in the meanwhile:

16. make it auto name the note (to the date for example) if pressing "create" without manually entering a name

17. no idea about that file type the sketch drawer uses, but making it save drawings as png or jpeg would be better

18. currently after opening a new note, you have to press on that line that says "type something..." for it to start typing, but it will be better if you could type on anywhere in the note to start typing

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Also here because no other app matched the requirements of local files/ notes preview/ folders system/ md support. Also appreciate the customizations goodies

[RoBoT095]

The sketch drawer uses BSON or JSON but binary instead of strings, well it is still JSON that is converted when saving as I had to fork library and add BSON support myself. It is closer to scalable vector graphic (svg) than a PNG, if you saved it as PNG/JPEG from the start, you wouldn't be able to edit it anymore.

You can export as svg or png, not save it as such.

[RoBoT095]

Ok, I added some of the easier stuff that I agree with to the dev branch.
3, hide the file extension, 4, added option to editor configuration page, 16, creating note without name gives it "untitled" name and adds number to name if file already exists.

I'll try to fix 12 with the http thing next, afterward look into 8 and 10, it is getting late so I will probably work on it some other time if it takes too long.