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Looking for testers for my markdown notes app inspired by Google keep layout (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Shady_Shiroe to c/android
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Started first launch on an app I am working and need 20 testers opted in for 14 days to get to play store. If you want to help out, you can join this Google Group and click on link to join as tester

UPDATE: current tester count

Once you join the group, you will be able to view the links to join as a tester and see the app in the play store

google group welcome message

I wanted a notes app that followed a more similar approach to file managers with folders instead of "notebooks" but also look like google keep as I really like the look, and I started using obsidian and thought it was cool. The closest thing I found to what I liked was QuillPad, but the author decided to not go multiplatform, outside of android, so as I just started learning flutter, I decided it would be fun to do it myself. The project is open source on GitHub here.

I hope this isn't too much self-promotion, but I don't know where else I can go except reddit.

I want to release on fdroid and ios app store as well, then when I feel the app is good enough for desktop, get out an application for linux, macOS, and windows too

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This looks like something usefull. Some observations after first start...

  • why does the app requests full file rights, after I selected my local notes folder? If the app has access to that folder (and subfolders), this should be enough.
  • for code, examples a code font should be used and not the same font as article text
  • i use markdown a lot for code. With this it should be possible to select the whole code block by single click. When using css, this should be possible with > user-select:all
  • auto line break should be disabled in the same context. This seems to be already the case for code block but not for single line code
  • i would love to see support for yaml. But in the form that i can hide the yaml block
  • i think the search feature doesn't work yet. If I have for example a note with the title Manjaro.md and I type "manjaro", it isn't found. The search should also search the text inside the notes or at least the yaml tags (if supported)
  • please keep the local folder and don't invest your resources in a sync mechanism. There are so much possibilities like WebDAV, rsync, SFTP and a lot of clouds. To much to make anyone happy. There are some Android apps which sync such things with an ease.
  • I keep my rare images in a hidden subfolder of the notes folder like ".media". Not only images, also linked PDF and so on. Such images are not displayed. They seems to be not found

I really like the idea of your app. Could be a good companion for my PrimitiveNotes plug-in for Roundcube. Hopefully you find the time to develop it further.

[–] Shady_Shiroe 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

  • This app is made with flutter, meaning I can use single code base to build to most platforms, I am not very experienced with flutter yet, so I couldn't find a way to only give it access to your files without full access without bugs, maybe I missed something or did something wrong.

  • There are very small amount of libraries for markdown support that are good, so for example code block themes are imported individually so to avoid including 50 types of code themes, I just chose 2 (light and dark mode) that I thought looked good.

  • Yeah search is actually a lot harder to do, especially the way I made it, which I kind of ended up shooting myself in the foot on that one, due to lack of foresight.

  • Hidden folders are filtered out because things like archive and trash are just hidden folders in main path.

I appreciate the feedback, I am finally getting more than just a "Looks cool, man" and "That's nice" reply.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

If you have access to a Roundcube instance, you can try my PrimitiveNotes plug-in, if you want. You can find it at https://codeberg.org/Offerel/Roundcube_Primitivenotes. Maybe this helps to understand, for what and how i use markdown notes. I have absolutely no knowledge about flutter or Android coding, so I can't help that much.

But I can test and send you a little bit feedback for your app, because I really like your concept so far.

[–] Shady_Shiroe 1 points 2 days ago

Maybe I should add a button to view hidden folders

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Any way to try it if i dont have a google account?

[–] Shady_Shiroe 2 points 2 days ago

Not the most up-to-date all the time, here are a bunch of apks and a single old appimage I did for testing https://drive.proton.me/urls/QEVQW91PAG#rdeWJPqYZyW0

[–] TheFonz 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What does this have over Obsydian?

[–] Shady_Shiroe 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I personally don't like Obsidian on mobile, but to answer your question, this is all just a kind of learning experience as this is the second app I have ever made, so not much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is it self hosted or where are the notes stored?

[–] Shady_Shiroe 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Locally in any folder you choose, currently I set it up to sync through the nextcloud client app, but in the future I want to see if I can add options for bi-directional syncing myself inside the app instead.

[–] warmaster 4 points 2 days ago

Git & Github would be awesome

Github so that I can get it to sync instantly, and git for when I finally get time to learn how to self host it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It says I don't have permission to access the Google group

[–] Shady_Shiroe 2 points 2 days ago

I believe you need to sign in to Gmail first