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PhilKes / NotallyX

Minimalistic Android note taking App | Notally, but eXtended.
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Bottom navigation to increase accessibility for one handed usage #129

Open Fmoment1 opened 5 days ago

Fmoment1 commented 5 days ago

Describe the solution you'd like Inside a note, the following buttons are available at the top bar: "pin", "undo", "redo" and "more options" (right side) and a back button (left side).

What I'm proposing is a bottom bar inside the note that would have "pin", "undo", "redo" and some features from "more options", such as "delete", "archive" and "labels" (ideally customizable, so we'd choose which options we'd like to keep in the bottom bar). This would also include the back button.

Additional context This would be a huge QoL improvement for one handed usage. Letting users customize the position of the buttons would be great too.

PhilKes commented 3 days ago

I am also a fan of the bottom bar in Google Keep:

It includes undo/redo, text formatting, adding audio recording/images, everything you need when actually writing a note.

Not sure if we would add the text formatting options here again too since they are already in the popup menu when you select text, but tbh I find Google Keeps approach more elegant, so that the user can always see the text formatting options without having to select some text first.

When clicking on ... we could show Pin, Archive, Delete, etc. just like in the top action menu.

I'm not a huge fan of having another back button, since you can simply use the android back button or swipe gesture already on top of the back button in the top left, so adding a 3rd back button adds no benefit IMHO.

Customization would be a lot of effort, and I think there arent really enough actions to justify that, so far a first implementation I would skip customization. We can still add that later if needed

Fmoment1 commented 3 days ago

Sounds fair!

Fmoment1 commented 3 days ago

I wanted to get rid of the ... altogether as tapping on it is just an extra step towards doing what you want. "Better to just have the options right there on the bottom bar", is what my thinking was.