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This is a wonderful looking project, thanks for making it open source! I am thinking of forking it for my own side-project and contributing to the development i
by vekker 8y ago
This is a wonderful looking project, thanks for making it open source! I am thinking of forking it for my own side-project and contributing to the development if possible.
As other commenters already noted, the UI/UX of the app will need some work. Just some initial thoughts:
- Organisation of the notes is cumbersome: it wasn't clear to me what is meant with a note and a section, and how to actually start writing (I would expect to be able to start writing right away rather than first creating a notebook/section/note, choosing a title, etc...)
- I would like to tag my notes à la Evernote, and filter notes based on this.
- Speaking of searching/filtering: it would be nice to list all search results (and organisation of the notes for that matter) in the main view.
- Maximise screen real estate for the actual note taking: why is there such a huge header and side nav... on a 13" screen I barely have room to see my notes. I would like to hide all that in a hamburger menu.
- Keyboard shortcuts!
- The ability to drag and drop images or other documents would be nice
- The text in the textarea when taking a note is so small & there is no padding.
Anyway, hope that's useful feedback.. thanks again for this work! I will look further into it.
- NIckGeek 8y agoThanks for the list! Just on a couple points I may already have what you're looking for, you can type in a hashtag (like #todo) anywhere in a markdown element and then that note will show up in a search for that hashtag (that search also works cross-notepads). The side-nav can be hidden (although the rest of the chrome can't, which is something I want to get sorted). Also, on the textarea size, I think I'm using the browser default, but I might be wrong there. Thanks for a decent list though, it's great to have action items. Forks are always welcome and I appreciate all pull requests.
- mkl 8y agoGood comment, but please don't indent like that, it makes things very hard to read. Two spaces at the start of the line turns on code formatting, which uses a monospace font and scrolls sideways instead of wrapping: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
- Cyphase 8y agoHere's vekker's list without the formatting: * Organisation of the notes is cumbersome: it wasn't clear to me what is meant with a note and a section, and how to actually start writing (I would expect to be able to start writing right away rather than first creating a notebook/section/note, choosing a title, etc...) * I would like to tag my notes à la Evernote, and filter notes based on this. * Speaking of searching/filtering: it would be nice to list all search results (and organisation of the notes for that matter) in the main view. * Maximise screen real estate for the actual note taking: why is there such a huge header and side nav... on a 13" screen I barely have room to see my notes. I would like to hide all that in a hamburger menu. * Keyboard shortcuts! * The ability to drag and drop images or other documents would be nice * The text in the textarea when taking a note is so small & there is no padding.
- dEnigma 8y agoThank you very much! The original list was almost unreadable on my smartphone.
- vekker 8y agoHa! Thanks for that, I'm mostly a lurker here so I was surprised to learn HN puts everything on one line, I thought indenting it was the only way to have a bulleted list.
- forapurpose 8y agoText indented with two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim, which is intended for code. https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc There is no bulleted list format; just start the line with a bullet (such as a hyphen) and put a blank line between list items.