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kmac / mindfulnotifier

A simple mindfulness-based timer which displays a notification/reminder at user-defined intervals
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Number of characters (per note) #25

Closed GEkuL closed 3 years ago

GEkuL commented 3 years ago

Could you increase the number of characters per note. 256 for me is not enough, could it be upgraded for 1024?)

kmac commented 3 years ago

Hmm, I'm not sure if the notification area would support that. Right now the limit is just a setting at the UI level, so if you want to try it you could do an export, then manually edit the entry in the JSON file. Then re-import. Do you mind trying that? Just to see if the notification can handle it.

GEkuL commented 3 years ago

@kmac yaaah, the problem is that I tried it with import, and some messages are shown cropped, and some aren't shown at all((

kmac commented 3 years ago

Hmm okay. I'd have to try it and see what's happening then. I did choose the 256 char limit to be in line with a short reminder on purpose though... Sort of like an SMS or twitter. I wonder if adding some markdown like in your Issue #23 might be really what you're looking for - assuming I could get hyperlinks working - clicking on the link would take you to somewhere you have more detailed notes captured. Just a thought.

BTW I'm starting a new job this week. I don't expect to have a huge amount of time over the next month or two to add new stuff...

wolftune commented 3 years ago

Mentioned in closed duplicate issue:

An alternative that might be easier: make it so that tapping on the remind (to see the whole thing within the app) will count for clearing the reminder.

It's tedious to tap to have to read the whole thing but then still have to manually clear the notification

kmac commented 3 years ago

@wolftune This is already supported. Uncheck preferences => Use sticky notification. It will then dismiss the notification when you tap on it. I have it set to sticky notifications on by default just as a personal preference.

kmac commented 3 years ago

Also I will likely have to truncate the long reminder at some length for the notification window. I'm not sure what the max is, but I don't think it should be a super long field in the notification itself... I think clicking on the notification and bringing you to the main screen where it can scroll should suffice, no?

kmac commented 3 years ago

Fixed in 1.0.15. I have set the max in the UI to 4096 chars. My only concern with large reminders is that this stuff isn't stored in a database, it's just using the android shared preferences as of now; I'm not sure how that will handle things as the number of reminders grows and the text is large...