pybae / qnote

A note taking app for Linux

QNote

A modern, fully-featured note taking app for Linux
Built with Qt 5, Qt Dropbox, and ❤️

Screenshots

Feature List TODO

• Autocomplete
• External Text Parsing Engine
• Google Drive Integration
• Dropbox Integration
• Automatic Saving of files
• Inline latex substitution

Proposed Features

• Conversion from actual notes (using Camera and OpenCV), perhaps something like this for latex

Notes

As always, this project will abide by our coding guidelines

qnote's Issues

Travis CI builds

Integrate code with travis ci build and write unit tests

Preferences to customize fonts

Mentioned by @tycheng

Code does not compile

Paul, code doesn't even compile now. Thanks.

About dialog window box

Add about on menu bar

Deferred Text Loading

I have been testing the app for the last hour and feel like there is need to implement this. Modern UI should not block during doing something in the background. This is a difference between terminal command line and GUI.

Therefore I suppose we can create a QThread to load file in the background, use the progress bar to track the percentage of file loading. During this period, we should allow user to do whatever they want.

0.01 UI Design

Made a sketch of the basic UI:

The MainTextRegion should be implemented with text buffers

Last edited timestamp

clicking on the file and highlighting/clicking on a spot on the file results in the "last edited timestamp" (is that what we have?) to change to the current time and date.

suggestion: use keystrokes as a trigger to note that an edit is taking place?

Prompt user for default directory

Need to prompt the user for the default directory (QDir requires absolute path)
and path differs among systems

Storing the QFile

In our implementation as of now, we have a private QFile member that tracks the current file we are working on. However, as we can't freely assign QFiles, such as (QFile member = QFile('fileName')), I was thinking of simply using the fileName and then looking up the file when we have to edit something with the file.

This leads to the following design:
1. Having a fileName as an identifier
2. Needing to search up the fileName for every operation on the file
3. Requiring a textBuffer (or something of the sort, it's QTextStream for now) for the current file

And if an user happens to modify the file whilst we haven't updated yet (or deleted the file entirely) we would check that in our methods, and throw an error.

What do you guys think?

Need to support binary files

Thank you Paul. Fix it.

Implement syntax highlighting

can probably do by QSyntaxHighlighting
or QScintilla

Printing current file

Printing the current file.

Things of concern. qt5 has extrapolated all of it's printing methods to QtPrintSupport, so we're going to be using that library (might have to update soon), and I've already included it.
Sadly, there isn't a lot of documentation on it, so we'll have to poke around and do our best on it.

Also, prompt to save on printing the file as well

create a new file ghost entry

an extra ghost entry appeared which makes user frustrated

Implement spellcheck

Decided to do spell check by hunspell

EOF at the end of textEdit

In saving a file, a EOF character is inserted, so the output looks like:

Opening .o file from the directory

When trying to open .o file from the directory, it does not give me an error box. Instead, it changes the file format.

Name

Naming the app,
feel free to pitch any ideas here

Default Directory setting needs to be mandatory

Update New, Save, Print

As of now, the New, Save, Print functions all require the new dynamic implementation to work correctly.
Will implement once we have them working

Create title and date

Need to create the title and date for each widget
something like this:

Just checking if the last char is a new line or a space DOES NOT work

What if the user decide to go back and change something by moving the cursor with mouse.

Make SaveAs and Open more general

As of now, they only support txt files and cpp (examples from the tutorial).
Search for "This mode is useful" in this text:
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.7/qfiledialog.html
And see if you can do it

logo

design logo

create a new file bad buffer

the text buffer is precached from previous input.

Opening up a large file somehow changed its format

While opening a .o file within my build directory, the app took quite a long time to open it so i tried to exit. It wouldn't respond so a window popped up asking me if i wanted to force quit. I clicked yes and the notetaking app closed. After trying to run the app again, i got an error telling me that the .o file i opened up previously with the notetaking app had an unrecognized file format.

EOF at the end of textEdit

In saving a file, a EOF character is inserted, so the output looks like:

TextBuffers

Change the implementation of the mainTextEdit to instead of using streams, use a custom buffer implementation.

Need to test for larger files right now to see how our implementation scales up

Save as doesnt work

it produce this on left entry LOL

once app is restart it works

Show a sign that the file hasn't been saved

Find a way to determine if there are unsaved changes to the file and show a sign (asterisk perhaps) in the FileView that the file has unsaved changes

Fonts

Making people argue
Comic Sans go!

Same name will edit both files

make a folder and name a file that is the same as the file outside of the folder

eg a.txt and folder/a.txt

it displays a.txt and a.txt on the entry (a bit bad, user couldn't differentiate which files)
worse is when user tried to edit 1 of the files, both files changed.

p/s: this could be due to our implementation of absolute path