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Looks clean, but how are you organizing the "thousands of notes I had on Google Keep"? It looks like a single page of notes.
by twh270 2y ago
Looks clean, but how are you organizing the "thousands of notes I had on Google Keep"? It looks like a single page of notes.
- seansh 2y agoYes it is a single page of notes with the pinned notes at the top which can be toggled and we have archived notes. That's all. I meant to add organizing notes into folders but after using it for a while I realized I didn't miss it. The search is very quick. I usually just write one or two phrases in the search and it will narrow down the notes to the ones that include all those phrases. Sometimes, I add tag-like text to a note e.g. #people so I can always search for it quickly. Is another form of organizing essential for you?
- twh270 2y agoUh... maybe not? I've been living with just a few folders in Outlook for some time now (Inbox[0], Archive, and Important) and can almost always find what I'm looking for. Usually with a search word/phrase, sometimes by another field. Tags could cover most of my need for taxonomy/organization. (I'm hesitant to say 'all'.) FYI I noticed a typo, "Github falvored markdown". [0] I try for 'inbox zero' but am okay with leaving things in my inbox for a few days if I'm expecting to need them soon. Sometimes I flag for followup or color-categorize.
- twh270 2y agoExperimented a few more minutes, and I have a few suggestions I think I'd like to see implemented: -- Allow regular expression search. -- Click outside the note to save. (Autosave every N seconds would be nice as well.) -- Customizable CSS. (Yes, I can do this with a local build.) -- Collapse/expand (sub)headings. I'll give it more of a test drive over the next few days.
- seansh 2y agoThanks a lot for the suggestions. Regular expression search would be cool. I was thinking to add a few color themes. But custom CSS to be honest I don't think would work well. In my experience CSS is a little fiddly especially given that the css includes some hacks to get safari on ios working properly which was a big pain. Auto save is already done, nothing you type is every lost. It's saved immediately (and synced every few seconds). There is a collapse/expand feature but not for subheadings. If you put --- at the beginning of a line followed by a blank line it'll collapse everything after that, as shown in the demo note.
- twh270 2y agoFair enough on the CSS, and I didn't realize autosave is already done, thanks! I did see the '---' collapsible and that helps but only if you have one section you want to collapse. I'm perhaps more visually-oriented than most, and being able to hide extraneous material helps me focus.
- seansh 2y agoMakes sense. Perhaps there could be an option in the menu to set the default expansion level: - level 1: collapse all H1 sections - level 2: collapse all H2 sections - ... Basically like org-mode's cycle feature with the tab key. And then clicking on a headline will expand it.