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Fmstrat / ownnote

Notes app for ownCloud
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Is this app still in active development? #338

Open goetholon opened 7 years ago

goetholon commented 7 years ago

It seems tumbleweeds are rolling by here. The app has great potential, but needs usability and stability issues addressed...

goetholon commented 7 years ago

Usability: It takes too many taps to start a new note - this should be streamlined.

Stability - when offline (no owncloud connection possible), new notes written on the smartphone are lost. That is a no go.

ThomasDaheim commented 7 years ago

Unfortunately, there seems to be uncertainty which of the many Notes-apps for owncloud/nextcloud will remain and will be "the one" :-( Would be nice to know where to invest efforts...

enoch85 commented 7 years ago

Would be nice to know where to invest efforts...

Agreed.

@Fmstrat Please take some time and look over the issues and PRs here. There are a lot of users that paid for this app and expect continuity, you can't just abandon an app like this, especially if people paid for it. IMHO.

ThomasDaheim commented 7 years ago

Had a look at notes app and QOwnNotes but somehow they don't agree with me :-( So I have started to play around with the php code from ownnote. It doesn't seem to be too complicated BUT the android app isn't available as source code. So mayor changes to ownnote aren't possible in the moment since they would break the android app.

enoch85 commented 7 years ago

@ThomasDaheim Would love to see a new maintainer of this app. Maybe @Fmstrat can let you in?

ThomasDaheim commented 7 years ago

@Fmstrat : Happy to support in any way I could! Will try to reach you via PM as well to see, if that is an option for you.

ThomasDaheim commented 7 years ago

Mail delivery to ownclouddev@nosolutions.com failed... So lets wait and see for any response here.

spoorun commented 7 years ago

We agree. There may be consolidation of notes apps, but there is a fundamental difference between most of the other notes options using markdown and OwnNote using Wysiwyg/html. We recognise the benefits of markdown, but that's not what our colleagues or friends would want to use, and they don't need the benefits markdown offers, but do need a wysiwyg note editor. We would support development.

ThomasDaheim commented 7 years ago

Good to hear that I'm not the only one in favor of a Wysiwyg editor!

Until we hear something from @Fmstrat I would compile a few changes / fixes I have done so far into one pull request in the next days. And anyone brave/willing could test it. Especially, also if it doesn't break the android client.

TrueOsiris commented 7 years ago

So ... any news?

enoch85 commented 7 years ago

@ezula will maybe maintain this app in a near future.

ThomasDaheim commented 7 years ago

As preparation of a larger pull request I had asked for a test suite (see issue #342 ) but haven't received any feedback so far. I would create the pull request nevertheless to see what happens. That should give us some clues...

e-alfred commented 7 years ago

A WYSIWYG editor app is a must have for anyone who has users who are not able to/don't want to learn Markdown (which is a nice way to format stuff btw) because they are not well versed in IT related stuff. These users want to make notes fast with a bit of formatting (like in Evernote) but without a steep learning curve. This app is awesome in this regard and definitely has its place as a viable alternative for all those other notes apps (based on the default notes app?).

To maintain compatibility with the Android (and maybe an iOS app?), open sourcing them would be a good way to make sure they are kept compatible if breaking changes are applied to the codebase. Aside from that people who already run a piece of open source software like Nextcloud/Owncloud and do not trust/like closed source apps which aren't published on for example F-Droid will probably go with the open source notes app alternatives.

I also hope that it will be published onto the Nextcloud app store (https://apps.nextcloud.com) to make installation and distribution easier.

Fmstrat commented 6 years ago

It's... "sort of" supported. Basically, enough to keep it running in my environment, which is the latest version of Nextcloud's docker image (13, now). So you'll see some of the latest commits fixing bugs that crop up each time a new release occurs. The Nextcloud team forked off a new version for Nextcloud (https://github.com/brantje/nextnote) but unfortunately development died off quickly and for some reason the API for the Android app was removed. I had hoped to migrate there and help push fixes, etc when I had time, but oh well.