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It would be useful if someone preferred to save his notes in a particular folder on SD card.

Hi,

after upgrading from version 1.18 to version 1.22 (both downloaded via F-Droid) Simple-Notes crashes on startup. I did not install version 1.19, 1.20 or 1.21 before I installed 1.22.

On the latest FireOS release (after some failed attempts to downgrade Simple-Notes), the presumably relevant logcat line was:

Caused by: android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException: no such column: type (code 1): , while compiling: SELECT id, title, value, type FROM notes ORDER BY title COLLATE NOCASE ASC

I reproduced this crash on Android 4.2: after installing version 1.18, I added a line to the general note and added a note that also contains one line. Finally, I removed Simple-Notes from the task list, upgraded to version 1.22, ran Simple-Notes and noticed that it crashed.

This bug would be very unfortunate if I wouldn't have created some "backups", i.e., screenshots.

Regards
Carsten

The app eats any trailing carriage returns. If I put them there, I wanted them.
Trailing carriage returns arr useful e.g. to make it easier to paste another item at the bottom of a note without first having to place cursor at end of last line and add a carriage return.

An "Import folder" option would be sufficient.

Hi! Is possible add an ability to create an audio notes??

Auto save or ask to save if the user presses the back/return key so that they do not lose content.
Most apps on Android autosave or ask to save for edited content so I believe this is expected behaviour.

I use this app to make daily entries. I noticed after using the app a couple of days, I can no longer "reach" all notes from the drop-down menu (the folder icon) in the app, because it only displays the first few entries.

As you can see, the bottom radio button also does not display a name, but is an empty string.

I realize this may be by design, but it would help me if I could scroll through a list of all my notes, and be able to select and edit them in the future (instead of having to use sqlite3 from the command line).

Is this something that you would consinder implementing?

Allmost every other app uses a popup window with a list of themes to select (even when there are only two). I don't know if this or that is material design guidline, but it would be nice, when you can change that. Because it is used in every of your app, maybe you can include this in SimpleCommons

It would be convenient if there was a method that allowed searching for the title of notes, instead of having to look through a list of notes and manually finding the one you need.

Hi,
thanks for your app. I really like a functional open source app with such a simplicity.

I used an older version and updated it to the second latest version (1.22) that was offered in the F-Droid repo.
Unfortunately I could not start the app anymore. During the start it showed
""Notes" was ended", and I could only tap on "send report" or "OK".

After updating to the published version 1.24 the same problem occured.
I was only able to export the data using Titanium Backup.

Do you have any clue why this error may have occured?
Could you keep this in mind for further updates?

Best regards
Fox

Hello,. it would be useful to be able to sync notes with syncml server

I just lost an important note because I didn't know you have to press save.

Steps to reproduce

1. Create enough notes to need a scrollable list.
2. In the main window, click on the folder icon.
3. Try to scroll down.

Expected

Scroll down the list of notes.

Actual

You cannot scroll the list.

reproduce: I go to "about" and than "third party licenses", click one link and than use the "back" button of my phone

Actuall: every license is doubled and the links are in font color, not primary color

Expected: looks like before clicking on a link

Deleting the "General notes" confuses Simple-Notes - tested on version 1.19 (the first release with this feature) and 1.22.

To reproduce this issue this steps can be used:

• ensure that you have no real notes saved in Simple-Notes
• delete the apps data and cache
• run Simple-Notes
• type "Some text" as the general note's text
• add a new note named "Asdf"
• type "Asdf" as the note's text
• switch to the general note
• select "delete note" in the menu and click on "ok"

Now the text of the note "Asdf" is shown in the same way as the general note is shown, i.e., the note's name is not shown and the note can not be renamed. Given that the note is still internally named "Asdf" and the general note has vanished, I suspect that adding a general note again using only the UI is either impossible or very tricky.

I missed this feature, or rather one that empties the general note (and possibly could also be named "empty general note" instead of "delete note"), in version 1.18 and still think that it would be very useful.

It is very inconvenient to move existing note: I have to delete the old one having its text cut and then create a new one and paste the text there.

When renaming a note, sometimes the note contents are cleared.

Steps to reproduce:

1. create a new note
2. add some text to the note
3. swipe to a note at least 2 notes away
4. swipe back to the new note
5. rename the note

Running version 2.0.3 from F-Droid
Android version 4.3
Phone model: Galaxy Nexus

Hi! Is possible add an ability to create a checklist notes??

Steps to reproduce:

• Create a new note

Expected behavior: there is a blinking cursor
Actual behavior: No cursor is shown, although the keyboard is open and typing works.

Typing any letter causes the cursor to be shown, even if you then erase that letter.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open app
2. Import a file, choose to sync changes
3. Hide app
4. Rename or remove the file
5. Go back to app
6. App crashes, but fortunately restarts
7. Note is removed from the app's storage even when the file was renamed, but not removed

Should I file a bug on (7) or it is supposed not to trace filename changes by design?

Thanks

It seems that the app loads slower when opening via widget so you will see the default primary color.

Maybe connected to https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/Simple-Commons/issues/20

If you add multiple note widgets, every instance should be able to display its own note. A possible UI for that might be selecting the note on widget creation instead of selecting the note globally in the app.

When I type a note and reach the end of the screen, the "new note" button (the orange button with the plus sign in it), makes it impossible to select the word under it:

As a workaround, I keep several lines of empty space below my note just to keep this from happening, but that is not the most convenient solution, of course.

Is there a way this button could not be displayed when entering text? Other solutions to this problem would be fine as well, of course.

can you please add ability to add check list ☑ items. would be very helpful.

Show the number of words in the note. Maybe also add some other common statistics, such as character count and the like.

It would be great if, when sharing text from another app, I could share to a new note.

It would be good to have the possibility to set the size of characters (i need bigger chars than the default :-).
Thanks.

Offer turning on autosave

Hi there !

Thanks for a vert nice app; now I have all my little thoughts on my home screen :)

Would that be possible to make the text scrollable directly from the widget, instead of having to open the app to see more than the beginning of the selected note?

Thanks, and keep up the good work!
Adrien

• Adding a new note is not as common of an action (for me) as editing an existing note
  • Having additional screen space at the bottom of the note would be as valuable as the fab.
• Because the FAB is hidden when editing a note, it can be difficult to find.
  • I've had a couple experiences where I'm writing something, want to create a new note, look in the menu, and for a moment am confused. "Where's the option to create a new note?" Then I remember I have to hide the keyboard first.
    This is pretty much the opposite of what a fab should be.

I think this article applies in this situation.

Hi,

When you create two widgets in different colors and change the widget's note, the first created widget will get the colorsheme of the latest widget.

Hi,

when there is a link on the last line of a note (no newline), tapping anywhere below that line will open the link. I think the expected behaviour would be to put the cursor at the end of the note if the tap is not in the vicinity of the link.

PS.: This app and the other simple mobile tools are awesome!

Steps to reproduce:

1. Press + icon
2. Type something in a text field

or

1. Open note title rename dialog
2. Change title

then

3. Make orientation change (e.g. rotate your device)
4. Press OK
5. Application crashes, though a note with the given name shows up then

Currently, it is not possible to change the title of a note. It would be convenient to change the title, rather than deleting the note and recreating it with another title.

It would be great if it had a sync feature with gdrive, dropbox, owncloud, etc.

E.g. placing a folder called "Notes" in the root cloud fs and creating a .txt file for each note

#9 and #16 need to be done, than it could be very easy to implement.

Related to #8

This may not a serious problem, but it does happens when I rotate the screen while input text.

It may be caused by the fact that there were many unhandled messages (for editing) sent to android.widget.Editor$Blink at the time the activity is destroyed via rotation.

I found this is a common issue for android:
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=188551

It seems fixed by following commit:
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/5b734f2430e9f26c769d6af8ea5645e390fcf5af%5E%21/

There is a valid cert for simplemobiletools.github.io and apache.org. So why not link the https versions in all apps?

Hi! Please, add an Arrow back, to cancel words written / deleted

Or, alternatively, add the ability to save the new words manually, without autosave

If you edit a notes and, without first closing the app, you switch to another saved note, you loose your change.

I haven't found a decent/working FOSS dictionary or thesaurus since I bought my Android device.

Aard installs but no dictionary and I can't seem to download Aard 2 from its site; DictionaryforMids is baaad --- does not make suggestions as you type does not spell/suggest.

As in the first screenshot here (not an app I've used; I just looked up apps on gplay until I saw a screenshot that visually looked like what I'm talking about).

From the material guidelines:

Disambiguation: Simple dialogs display detailed options for list items or provide related actions. Simple dialogs can display the same content as simple menus. However, simple menus are preferred because they are less disruptive to the user’s current context.

The material guidelines are just that -- guidelines; they can be broken. In this case, though, they're totally right; switching notes isn't the level of importance that requires dialog-level disruption.

Hi,

the mutli note funktion is great. But (in my opinion) it would be better, when the widget is allways displaying the same note, not the current one.