alganzory / tabnote

VS Code extension that allows you to leave notes on individual tabs/files.

TabNote - The ultimate way to leave notes on tabs and files

Leave a note on tabs or files to help you remember why they were opened/relevant/whatever the heck you may want to remember.

The main motivation behind this extension is to help you leave notes on a tab/file, this could be useful to remember why you opened a file (when you have too many open), or to leave a note to yourself about a file.

Notes persist across sessions, so you can leave a note on a file and come back to it later.

Key Features

• Quickly add a note to any file or tab
• View preview of the note for current tab in the status bar at the bottom of the window

• View notes preview through sidebar (activity bar)
• Manage notes (add, edit, delete), and search for a specific note through sidebar (activity bar)

• Manage notes (add, edit, delete), and search for a specific note through a quick pick menu

How to use

• To add a note for the current tab, use the command TabNote: Add Note or click the Add Note in the status bar
• To view and edit existing notes, use the command TabNote: View/Edit Note or click the status bar button to view/edit the note for the current tab
• To delete a note for the current tab, use the command TabNote: Delete Note
• You can view and manage all notes by clicking the extension icon in the side bar (activity bar)
• You can search for a note through the command TabNote: Search Notes or by clicking the search button in the status bar

In short, you can manage the notes in the workspace using status bar, activity bar or the command pallete

Requirements

• Visual Studio Code v1.50.0 or higher

Extension Settings

This extension does not add any settings to Visual Studio Code yet.

Known Issues

None at the moment.

Release Notes

0.0.1

Initial release of TabNote

0.0.2

• Add keywords to package.json
• Update gifs in README.md

tabnote's Issues

Use a Web view to display the notes list instead of tree view?

I am not sure about this one, it's a trade-off between simplicity and sophistication (eh)

Enable taking notes in markdown

This will probably rely on #4 to display the notes

Gifs in readme are too small/not clear

Add tags to manifest

Show comments at top of file

I think the notes you create should show up at the top of the file (but not count them as a line) so then it is quicker to find them.

(I came from the Reddit post, same username)

Navigate to tab when clicking on it's tree item in tree view

crossorigin anonymous breaks some images

Edit note through tree view only edits active tab

Show Note in the Tab?

Thanks for this extension, new to using VS Code here but I find this helpful.  I was pleased to find I could drag it from its own view into the Explorer view.  I was even more pleased when I could drag it down to the bottom panel, which has the horizontal space needed for some long path names with notes at the end.

This will work for now, but I was initially hoping to find something that could put a note right into the tab itself.  Have you noticed: with more than one file open with the same name, Code will add parts of the path to the tab to distinguish them?  

ℰ.ℊ.:

One foo	Two foo's

It might be nice if TabNote could do something similar,

with some options that could replace/take the place of Code's path note, or append the note as a third field too.  Also configure displaying "up to a certain length" of the note, so you don't get super long tabs with longer notes...

Best,
Scar

Show "Add note" or "View/Edit note" in context menu (right clicking a file)

https://code.visualstudio.com/api/ux-guidelines/context-menus