Handling of notes from other editers

[peteruithoven]

psnotes uses the first line of a note as file name. (Just like nvAlt if I remember correctly). This however causes issues when editing notes created with other editors, where the first line has no significance.

The file "ipsum.txt", which has "Dummy text" on the first line is renames to "Dummy text.txt"

The file "lorem.txt", which has a long paragraph on the first line is renamed to "_20170706_233044.txt".

I'd like to find a better solution, a solution that alters the regular functionality of psnotes as little as possible.

My first idea would be to, when a file is opened and the first line doesn't match the file name add the file name on the first line, moving the other content one line down.

I'm curious what you think

[thejambi]

nvAlt does not do this (perhaps there's an option I don't see somewhere, or maybe it does it when synced with Simplenote?) and it really bugs me.

Simplenote is what does it this way, and some other apps that try to be like Simplenote (Jottings for iPhone is the best app I've seen that's similar to a Dropbox-syncing plain-text Simplenote type of note taking app - it's wonderfully compatible with PS Notes. It actually can handle either way). Unfortunately my opinion is that anything not doing it this way is doing it wrong :)

I'll be thinking about this and see if I have any ideas. But since it's not an issue I ever have, I'm not sure I'll know exactly how to handle it (my issue is the opposite -- whenever I use nvAlt, I have to type the note title twice, yuck. I ignore that and give it a throw away title and let Jottings or PS Notes fix the filename for me. If you haven't noticed, I have quite the pet peeve of having a separate title field!).

I'll test out the plopping in the filename at the top of the text and see how it works, because you're right - that could be potentially important text. But for sure, I definitely want to make it so if you start typing without a title, it'll just name the note "Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy te...", for example, from whatever you've typed.

[peteruithoven]

Have you found a moment to experiment with this?

[thejambi]

I will soon! First I have been working on getting DayJournal up and running for AppCenter.