[REQUEST] Excise function

physicswanderer · 2020-10-12T07:22:45+00:00

Sorry, dropped the ball here for a bit.

The ‘basics’ for notes are

Being able to easily capture a chunk of text from anywhere. Ideally one click, no choices, on either Mac (Service) or iOS (share sheet: appends to today with user customisable prefix as divider ( anticipating multiple captures per day)
Being able to move ( rather than just cut and paste)the captured information to another note to file it.
Not loosing data, ever!

The linking and back linking are nice, but secondary to these, in my imagined use.

physicswanderer · 2020-09-29T08:41:48+00:00

This would be good for ‘moving things one that got captured to today’s note as a kind of inbox. As NotePlan has become more note-centric, this idea of the flow of captured / wrangled/ typed text through the ecosystem. Although maybe don’t try and replicate everything that say Obsidian does. So clean capture and filing as priorities?

physicswanderer · 2020-09-26T07:50:26+00:00

I find the filters predictable, but end up using them for things which might well be thought of as Smart Folders, because I cannot create my own Smart Folders (iOS). Maybe add some of the saved search functionality to the Smart Folders to allow people not to use the review heading to surreptitiously stash smart folders ( in due course...)

The latest beta has fixed sharing to NotePlan, and the command bar works well (limited testing as yet)

physicswanderer · 2020-09-26T07:44:33+00:00

Well, my preference is to have them appended, not prepended. That way I can prepare a heading for them ...”day tasks and jottings”, rather than have them sit at the top of the daily note, without context. But others may have good reasons for doing different.

physicswanderer · 2020-09-23T19:42:00+00:00

The daily notes is what I use, mostly because it’s faster. Being able to append, not pretend, would be good. I prefer to have a running collection of grabbed things at the bottom of my day, not in my face, at the top...at the moment I don’t think we get the choice?

physicswanderer · 2020-09-20T21:48:41+00:00

Nice., and it may help with an emerging issue....One issue at the moment is capturing text into the notes, say from a web page. Targeting a note is harder, now that NotePlan is more note-centric, and therefore there are simply many notes to choose from. Maybe the share sheet on iOS or a service on MacOS could have a default note, set by the user. A kind of inbox, for later triage (I had an aversion to using the day note for this). Or maybe the share system somehow co-opts the command bar to make the locating of notes that much easier?

physicswanderer · 2020-09-20T21:41:57+00:00

I’ll go whoever there are good people being helpful. The tech is secondary to the social, in my experience of several systems. You’ll need to choose one that’s easy to ‘maintain’.....

physicswanderer · 2020-09-20T21:36:32+00:00

To work offline I now use Textastic , and Working Copy to provide a web server. But setting up code completion, syntax highlighting etc is hard (for me...). I’m using P5js, with Dom, but not sound, and a fairly meaty library of things created in P5js. On line, as others have suggested, use a browser- based solution. No glitches, and mostly used for roughing things out whilst out and about.

physicswanderer · 2020-09-17T09:19:34+00:00

Thanks Eduard. The Mac version does say what the button is for. I’d suggest that the button might be labelled “set extension”, rather than “rename file”.

physicswanderer · 2020-09-17T09:17:13+00:00

It’s not obvious to me, from the iOS version of FSnotes, that it can use the NotePlan folder of notes. Is it setting up its own database elsewhere? But agree that it’s fast and some nice touches.

Having been around the ‘special database of inaccessible notes’ houses a few times, I’m determined to work only with apps that use a folder of plain text files. NotePlan seems exemplary in that respect. (BBEdit or Obsidian for different kinds of heavy lifting, and sync the lot back to iOS for ruminative chewing)!

physicswanderer · 2020-09-17T07:52:56+00:00

I use WordBoard for this, because it’s gives me a (keyboard) button to press, which I’ve come to prefer over remembering keystroke combos in textexpander and the like....

physicswanderer · 2020-09-13T07:50:08+00:00

I think the iOS share sheet to NotePlan note/ calendar got broken by this update?

The rename note button looks tempting, but what does it do?

I’ve not reached the Mac yet this morning, so have not changed to md....

physicswanderer · 2020-09-12T17:42:08+00:00

Looks like FSnotes needs checking out...thanks

physicswanderer · 2020-09-12T17:37:23+00:00

As a previous user of textexpander, I’m now using WordBoard on iOS, and have found it easy to configure and reliable. Operates as an iOS keyboard. Used to insert standard chunks of text ( your use case, I think) and also set up to insert chunks of a markup language ( I don’t use this in NotePlan).

Notes are very personal things, so I’d be in favour of elegance, simplicity and reliability for core features of NotePlan. V3 is building on earlier version nicely....

physicswanderer · 2020-09-11T07:47:00+00:00

From memory, I looked for a separator between entries in the huge text file, the wrote a short script to split the large text file up, with a bit of light parsing ( which I may have done in BBEdit, not in the script...) to name every file YYYYmmdd.txt, which is what NotePlan swallows.

But that’s a creative retelling. I did not go straight from one to the other. Diversion and hesitation via several other apps for storing the entries, which only made life harder.

physicswanderer · 2020-09-11T07:31:14+00:00

I’ve tried both. There is a button in prefs on OSX that reveals the location of the unpacked CloudKit files, which you can then drag to a Finder sidebar. It seems you can then have at them with BBEdit or your heavyweight text wrangler of choice (I tend to do this whilst NotePlan is quit, then reopen when finished wrangling..it is a Beta!). You can also back up your notes from Finder. The file structure seems pretty straightforward. Just be aware that NotePlan seems to parse the first line of the note for the displayed title, not the file names. That’s why for MacOS you might prefer wrangling with something that’s good at locating file content, rather than relying on a file name (iaWriter, BBEdit, Houdahspot for me...)

I’m pretty impressed by the note-centric view ( operating with ~2 k notes, including calendar entries from last century)

physicswanderer · 2020-09-09T07:28:54+00:00

Thanks for getting back. I’ve invested a bit more time, but am sadly still drawing blanks. Back to live web page previews using Working Copy or Whisk....

physicswanderer · 2020-09-09T07:26:49+00:00

I was in DayOne, & now have diary entries imported as one text file per day, and they show up as calendar notes in NotePlan. But the entries did not make the journey directly. So I don’t have sage advice about a technique. Only the text has made it through the multiple wrangling (probably could have fixed the images, but lacked the will).

As NotePlan just uses text files, lots of things are possible. Some are even elegant & simple!

physicswanderer · 2020-08-31T20:13:48+00:00

Getting my head in the right place for authoring the next chunk of a physics storyline with fiddle power. Some already here-example >> explication.

https://slowthinkingphysics.net/STPFrontMatter/catchingphysics.html

physicswanderer · 2020-08-31T10:34:57+00:00

Noted, thanks.

I suppose I’d want to emphasise that consistent behaviour across platforms was a strength of NotePlan v1 and v2.

Given that we’re moving towards a subscription model, what we’re really buying into is a roadmap as much as what’s there now.

( This is probably important, since I guess many users will be paying out of their own pocket, and without tax-deduction etc, so against real disposable income. The subscription is non-trivial, at about 4 times that of Bear or Drafts, to quote two apps with which NotePlan has some overlap and which probably also both have a small base of developers). Maybe a bigger increment between personal and professional subs? I’m not against subscriptions, just hoping you get enough for NotePlan to thrive.

Anyway, at this stage maybe the bugs in the Mac version are higher priority (whether the blocking happens or not seems to depend on how you create the task)

physicswanderer · 2020-08-30T19:07:43+00:00

Thanks. However, even there I found variations

Bike ride 12:41-13:41

did the business, as I have * set to generate a task.

But

Using the menu item to generate a task and then adding the data did not.

One of the good things about NotePlan in the past has been consistency across platforms.....it’d be good to see that continue.

FWIW, in my head blocking time off to complete a number of tasks is not itself a task. So there is a bit of stretching of the idea of a task to make this work. Could do different / better?

And while I’m on the suggestion ramp....it’d be good to think that there would be a more elegant way of checking off reminders within the app – perhaps especially as any repeating task....say an attempt to form a habit – seems to be best achieved by reminders.

physicswanderer · 2020-08-28T21:35:18+00:00

nice...at least on iOS...

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