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Beaver-Notes / Beaver-pocket

Your loyal note-taking companion is now available on mobile! Jot down your thoughts, meeting notes, to-dos, and more anytime, anywhere, thanks to Beaver Pocket.
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Publish on f-droid and/or other similar non-corporate app outlets #11

Open the-moog opened 2 months ago

the-moog commented 2 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I have been looking for a decent offline cross platform note taking app that is not linked to Google or Microsoft or any other corporate entity and not some sort of 'free' web app. Beaver Notes looks like the project of my dreams. I am so looking forward to trying the Android version! Though I think perhaps the 'pocket' name does the project a disservice and perhaps could be dropped in favour of a common name across all platforms, that would better indicate a true platform agnostic app and could not be confused with cloud services such as Pocket in Firefox.

Also, perhaps create an FAQ, e.g. Where can I get it (ref this query), How does cloud sync work. Is data stored in some sort of revision controlled database such as git or dav? Is the data storage back-end fixed or pluggable? Can any file system be used?

To my question: Will we see a release on a non-Google app vendor platform such as F-Droid?

Describe the solution you'd like Publish on F-Droid and/or other non-corporate app outlets.

Describe alternatives you've considered Here is a Wikipedia list of alternate mobile app outlets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_app_distribution_platforms

Daniele-rolli commented 2 months ago

Thank you for your feedback. I'll explain the naming choice; I named it "Beaver Pocket" because, in the end, it's not Beaver Notes. The idea was to release an app that you always have with you in your pockets, hence the name. Although it doesn't utilize the same technologies, it still maintains compatibility with its desktop counterpart. As the app is still under development, we currently don't have a FAQ section. Right now, my focus is on implementing sync support. Unfortunately, this feature will offer a more restricted experience compared to Beaver Notes, as it will likely be limited to webdav, Nextcloud, OneDrive, and iCloud initially, with additional services to be added later. Data is stored on the device in a .json file, along with note-assets and file-assets, allowing users to access their own data. However, the data itself is read-only and managed by Capacitor-Filesystem. Regarding releases, once we achieve a stable user experience, we plan to release the app on F-Droid, Play Store, and the App Store. We are also considering Aurora Store and other platforms. Thank you for sharing the Wikipedia link; I'll look into it.