meshamakes / pennote

A Simple Markdown Editor

Pen Note

From MeshaMakes

PenNote is a minimal markdown editor 📝 made using Flutter as front end and Firebase as a backend (temporarily internal storage). Pen Note gives you thr freedom to take notes the way how you want to, with the basic stripped markdown take minimal yet desirable notes for later. We welcome everyone to try it out and make something out if it, free free to donate if you see ot fit.

Features

• Great Design and Experience ✔️
• Private and Secure 🔐
• Free and Unlimited 🆓
• Cross Platform Usage 🖥️
• Responsive Design 📱

Development

Started: May 3rd, 2021

Tech Stack

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Installation

You may have to run pub.get in pubspec.ymal if any errors occur

Please note that this is being buildt for android first so you will need and android device to run on, and secondly in my preferred way of doing things I code all the UI elements then add the functionality afterwards so in the start nothing may work iinitially so bare with me.

In the command terminal, run the following commands:

$ git clone https://github.com/MeshaMakes/PenNote.git
$ cd pennote/
$ flutter run

For Android

Ensure that you have an Android emulator connected, whether virtual or physical.
Run the following command in the ternimal.
$ flutter run

Or select your device from the drop down and run.

For Web

Coming Soon

Once you run the app you should be opened up to this page where you can then enter the markdown view:

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pennote's Issues

Instructions to build

I saw your article on dev.to and I wanted to try this out!
I've not done any flutter coding, so I don't know how do build the project. Could you add this info in the readme

Unexpected message: No supported devices connected

So I installed PenNote as follows on my Ubuntu 20.10 system:

``bash
sudo snap install flutter --classic
cd ~/Applications
git clone https://github.com/MeshaMakes/PenNote.git
cd PenNote/pennote
flutter pub get
flutter run # Downloads flutter first time

But there is only a message in response to the last command after which I get my shell prompt back:

```bash
No supported devices connected.

Shouldn't a widget pop up and let me edit a Markdown file?

Looking forward to the web version

Given I'm not using an Android device I find it too cumbersome to use the Android SDK to run PenNote, though it does work fine here under Pop!_OS 20.10.

Getting a web version running would be nice.

There's no obvious alternative to use PenNote other than the Android SDK

No pressure. I enjoy testing out new Markdown editors and look forward to developments here.