[BETA] Noteself android app

[Danielo Rodríguez]

Hello,

I am in the process of creating an Android app for NoteSelf.

At the current stage it does not offer much advantages over the web app, except for:

• It appears on your apps box 
• It appears on the share with menu for text snippets. This is incredible powerful for collecting links ( webpages, youtube videos) and text snippets from other apps.
• It has it's own memory space, not the one the browser provides
• Should not be affected by you clearing the browser history, cookies or storage
• You can see how much space it is taking on the android apps menu

Some of the planned features are (in order of expected implementation)

• QR code scanning. This can be triggered by any widget and will produce regular tw events
• Better login flow and cookie caching. Currently you have to actively login every time you open the app
• Calendar integration. You will be able to schedule events on the device calendar
• Notification support. You will be able to schedule notifications via regular tw messages
• Ability to share tiddlers via the regular android share menu: send tiddlers by email, twitter, facebook....
• Native association with `.tid` files (not sure if I will achieve this)

The requirements are android 5.1 or higher.

I've been using this for more than a week for my personal wiki and it is incredible convenient, even with all the current limitations.

Any people interested on trying it out, please post a message on this thread. When there is enough people I will publish the app here.

I want to emphasize this is just an open BETA.

Regards

[Mat]

Wow! Cutting edge stuff, to say the least :-D

(except I have android 4.4... maybe this will make me get a new phone)

Will it store via cloudant, like desktop NoteSelf? I mean to sync across devices?

>It appears on the share with menu for text snippets. This is incredible powerful for collecting links ( webpages, youtube videos) and text snippets from other apps.

That does in deed sound very powerful! In fact, it is one of the major problems I see with the (few) bookmark-solutions attempted in TW where one manually has to copy-paste links. Could the approach to "appears on the share with menu for text snippets" also be applied to desktop NoteSelf and TW? (I guess that would mean to right click something...?)

• It has it's own memory space, not the one the browser provides

Sooo... which is better, separate memory or browser? I mean, considering how the puchdb is a major feature in desktop NS? Is there any particular reason to not go with browser memory? Maybe mobile browsers simply work differently?

• Better login flow and cookie caching. Currently you have to actively login every time you open the app

Is login necessary at all?

[Riz]

Would love to try.

[Danielo Rodríguez]

El miércoles, 1 de febrero de 2017, 0:01:37 (UTC+1), Mat escribió:

Wow! Cutting edge stuff, to say the least :-D

Thanks!

 

(except I have android 4.4... maybe this will make me get a new phone)

I can release a version 4.4 compatible, but that will increase the size of the apk from 2Mb to 32Mb

 

Will it store via cloudant, like desktop NoteSelf? I mean to sync across devices?

Yes. The experience is the same than the one of the website.

 

That does in deed sound very powerful!

Yes it is!

 

In fact, it is one of the major problems I see with the (few) bookmark-solutions attempted in TW where one manually has to copy-paste links. Could the approach to "appears on the share with menu for text snippets" also be applied to desktop NoteSelf and TW? (I guess that would mean to right click something...?)

For that task, taking in account that you are using the browser, would require a dedicated browser plugin, which I think exists already, at least for firefox. Make a search for tiddlyclip.

 

Sooo... which is better, separate memory or browser? I mean, considering how the puchdb is a major feature in desktop NS? Is there any particular reason to not go with browser memory? Maybe mobile browsers simply work differently?

The way things are stored is exactly the same. But, because this is considered a separate application and not a browser tab, it has an specific memory space. The technology is the same, localStorage, but instead of associating it to the browser, it is tied to the app 

 

Is login necessary at all?

Only for cross-device synchronization  

[Danielo Rodríguez]

El miércoles, 1 de febrero de 2017, 4:56:42 (UTC+1), Riz escribió:

Would love to try.

Cool! One more to the list.

Which device do you have? 

[mondayrobot]

Thanks for this !

I would love to test the beta. I have a Galaxy Note 5 running Android 6.0.1.

[David Szego]

Would love to try this. Galaxy Note 4. Will be ideal for Cardo's touch-friendly theme.

How does one sync a TW file? Can it load from sdcard, Dropbox, Node server, etc.?

- David.

[Danielo Rodríguez]

El miércoles, 1 de febrero de 2017, 16:13:50 (UTC+1), David Szego escribió:

Would love to try this. Galaxy Note 4. Will be ideal for Cardo's touch-friendly theme.

Cool! Could you link me to that theme? I want to try it out too. 

 

How does one sync a TW file? Can it load from sdcard, Dropbox, Node server, etc.?

That depends on what do you mean with sync. If you want to sync across several devices and keep those devices in sync, then you have to use a couchdb backend. If you just want to import your existing tiddlywiki the regular procedure is enough. 

Have you used NoteSelf before? 

[Brent Hall]

Danielo,

I'd like to try this as well. I have a Nexus 5x.

Thanks 

Brent

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[Handoko Suwono]

Hope to try it any sooner. I am using android 6 marshmallow though the screen is a bit small at 4".

handoko -

[Danielo Rodríguez]

Hello everyone again,

It took some time to me to publish the app because I wanted to add some features to it, but I'm not finding the time (or motivation) for doing so.

Before installing it or using it, please make sure that:

• You know and understand what NoteSelf is
• How to enable multi-device synchronization
• You know and understand that this is a beta and you will not use it for anything critical

That said... HERE IT IS! 

[Danielo Rodríguez]

I forgot to mention that this is only for Android 5 lollipop and up

[The Bo]

It works like a charm. I will continue testing and give you a more detailed feedback.

I already love it! :)

[Danielo Rodríguez]

El lunes, 20 de febrero de 2017, 16:43:53 (UTC+1), The Bo escribió:

It works like a charm. I will continue testing and give you a more detailed feedback.

I already love it! :)

Thank you very much The Bo. Glad you are enjoying it. Are you using the share-with capabilities?

Regards