Notes Usability Suggestions

[BrianGilbert]

• When creating a new note, open edit view by default
• Save function is hard to find (and I'm a web developer)
  • suggest adding a save button outside of editor WYSIWYG toolbar
  • or, having hide editor save by default (may cause unwanted edits though)

[Uzay-G]

Do you think it would work to give it a more prominent position in the toolbar and rename it to save / unsaved ?

[BrianGilbert]

@Uzay-G I think the toolbar icons are generally too small, and also missing things like lists.

Your using Easy MDE, but the icons are a lot larger on the demo site https://easy-markdown-editor.tk/ can you make them larger in Archivy perhaps? or configurable size maybe?

It seems like the following toolbar icons are available, what I would personally like to see is configuration for the user to enable which ones they want, with a default set that includes lists at least.

Another I have heard good things about is https://github.com/nhn/tui.editor it has better UX on setting heading sizes for instance, and checklist toolbar icon.

As for button text, unless it's going to be stateful I'd suggest just making it's tooltip Save Content? Ideally there would be some colour indicator as soon as there are changes green when current content is saved, orange or red when there are changes that are unsaved for instance.

[BrianGilbert]

#203 #209 related

[Uzay-G]

I'll work on this once I'm done with #198 😊. I agree we could improve here.