Navigate between previous notes ?

[bflorat]

Hi, thanks for this great app.

Is there a way to navigate easily between previously opened notes (apart from using the next/previous note button) ?

I suppose a multi-tab editor is not compatible with the QOwnNotes concept but maybe a navigation bar (like in a browser) or a panel displaying a list of last notes (like a browser history panel) would be very handy to reopen previously consulted notes.

[pbek]

Thank you for your kind words!

There are shortcuts to jump forward and back in the note history (see Note / Navigation menu and https://www.qownnotes.org/shortcuts/QOwnNotes). Plus you can use the mouse-keys 4 and 5, like in a browser. If you enable the tray icon there also is a small list of past notes.

If that that answers your question feel free to close the issue. 😁

[bflorat]

Thanks for your answer,

I already discovered the navigation shorts and buttons but I didn't figure out the list in the systray, thanks.

This makes your QOwnNotes usable for me. Through, I still think that a dedicated simple panel would be much easier to switch back and forth into recent notes as tabs are not available. I previously used zim and I switch intensively between notes using tabs (usually, I write into three or more notes in a short amount of time). I may be wrong but it seems that your software architecture can support it (you already have the history and your layout concept is very flexible, new panels can be added/hidden at will).

PS: your AES local encryption really rocks, it is really something a differentiator.

[pbek]

I really don't like to introduce a new panel. Not only are there already too many, but they are also a huge amount of work to integrate. I just use my mouse keys to move forward and backward in the history.

Hm, maybe something in the navigation panel?

PS: your AES local encryption really rocks, it is really something a differentiator.

Thank you. And you can also script it: https://docs.qownnotes.org/en/latest/scripting/hooks/#encryptionhook.

[bflorat]

Sure, the navigation panel could display not only the current note but also previous ones. It seems logical to me. Maybe an option to show/hide previous notes ?

Thx for the hook tip.

[pbek]

@bflorat, meanwhile you might like to test https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/issues/1720

[bflorat]

Thanks ! multi-tabs are much better. Not even sure this feature is still useful.

[pbek]

I don't know neither. :grin:

[SunSerega]

Plus you can use the mouse-keys 4 and 5

It's been a while since I had a mouse with side buttons being just "mouse 4" and "mouse 5". The last few mice had side keys that needed manual configuration, to be useful. Currently, I have 2 of my side buttons set to predefined "Browser forward/backward". It works in all browsers, in Explorer, in Visual Studio, in NP++ (kinda)... But not QOwnNotes.

From what I can test quickly - these "Browser forward/backward" have Win virtual codes of 167/166 (0xA7,0xA6). Can you also add them to do the same as "mouse 4" and "mouse 5"?

[pbek]

You can play around with the code here:

https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/blob/2237017a77c895ff70d1950c6f8b150d297e9928/src/mainwindow.cpp#L4171-L4181

[SunSerega]

"Browser forward/backward" are probably keyboard keys... But yeah, I see it nearby too.

[pbek]

The Events from the code part are mouse events.

[SunSerega]

Yeah, the part you linked, but the part right before it seems to handle keyboard keys, no? https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/blob/2237017a77c895ff70d1950c6f8b150d297e9928/src/mainwindow.cpp#L4054 Though it seems to be per-ui_component, meanwhile "Browser forward/backward" would need to be global to work like mouse 4/5.

Also, phind really tried to convince me that these keys only exist in Windows and so aren't defined in QT, but here they are: https://github.com/openwebos/qt/blob/92fde5feca3d792dfd775348ca59127204ab4ac0/src/gui/kernel/qkeymapper_win.cpp#L329-L330

[SunSerega]

Got time to try things out, but Qt Creator wants to eat whole 50GB of my disk space... I don't have that.

Maybe I can somehow highjack GitHub Actions to make binaries for me, so I can still test things here, but that's kind of pushing it already...

Can I hope for one of the maintainers to try and do this? (add the same functionality to keyboard keys Qt::Key_Back and Qt::Key_Forward, that already exists for mouse buttons Qt::BackButton and Qt::ForwardButton)

[pbek]

Can I hope for one of the maintainers to try and do this? (add the same functionality to keyboard keys Qt::Key_Back and Qt::Key_Forward, that already exists for mouse buttons Qt::BackButton and Qt::ForwardButton)

I currently have no good way of testing on Windows, anyone else?