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allow to use HandyNotes as an app, not only as a widget

Open landroni opened this issue 13 years ago • 1 comments

Please allow to use HandyNotes as an app, not only as a widget.

Currently HandyNotes can only be used as a widget: You add a widget on screen, enter some text and have it displayed there. This will of course work for many people, but not for all. As far as I'm concerned I don't need/want to have my notes so visible on the phone desktop. And they take a lot of space:

  • If you want to have one note per widget, you will end up with a nr of widgets cluttering the desktop;
  • If you want to put all your notes in one single note and keep the widget small, you might as well use a simple text editor for that;
  • If you want to put all your notes in one single note and use a big widget, then it would take too much space.

I would suggest that you add an 'app mode' to HandyNotes. It could work as follows:

  • The app can be run as any Android app, via desktop shortcut or Quickdroid
  • Loading the app will present the user with an 'add note' button and a list of notes
  • Hitting the button will create a note and bring up the current 'edit note' mode
  • Hitting any item in the list will pop up the same 'edit note' mode
  • Long-pressing any item will bring up a context-menu with the Edit and Delete options

The interface would be very simple, similar to AK Notepad or (the incomplete) Tomdroid, but the usability would be greatly enhanced.

landroni avatar Aug 03 '12 08:08 landroni

Hi @landroni, currently I have not time to work on this, but pull requests are welcomed

atd avatar Aug 28 '12 07:08 atd