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It seems that your fork of Scarlet Notes is the only one that has seen any development, so thanks for trying to maintain this abandoned project, be it for personal use only.

I have a soft spot for Scarlet Notes because I find its design the best one I have seen in a note-taking app (and I have tested virtually every free notes app).

For me in its current form, even taking into account the improvements which you have made (which I appreciate) Scarlet Notes is unusable for markdown notes because markdown links and tables are not rendered at all, and it is barely usable for plain text notes because of two issues, the first of which I think can be easily fixed.

First, in Settings, under Interface and Experience, Note preview length is hard-coded to a minimum of 2 lines in home screen, screen:

My suggestion is to unlock it (1 line can be chosen) so that only the header (the note title) would be seen in home screen. This would result in a denser notes list, which would be particularly useful (at least for me) for long notes lists which will diminish the scrolling as more notes would be visible in the home screen. I absolutely do not need preview of notes as note titles are more than enough for me.

Second, there is a glitch when clicking on a link inside a note in Edit mode, in stead of offering to open it in a browser, the app jumps upwards to the beginning of the note and only on the second click on the link it offers to open the link.

If it happens that you find time to work on this app and wish to improve it further, I would like to suggest that you may replace the markdown parser used in Scarlet Notes since the current one cannot handle tables and links (for me the latter is a fatal flaw). I am not a developer but I suppose that you might borrow from Quillpad, I am not suggesting Markor (the markdown app I use which I find convenient but I don't like its interface) or neutriNote because these two apps are written in Java while Scarlet Notes, just like Quillpad, is written in Kotlin.

Another possible enhancement would be improved bottom bar, I find the current one inconvenient compared to Markor's, for me a long, single line tool bar with all the comnands is better and simpler than hiding some of the comnands behind the plus (+) button.

If it happens that you continue the development of this fork I may suggest some more improvements.

Regards

Hi there!
I am very new to Github, so I apologise for stupid questions, but how can I download and install your version of the app? Or you haven't yet released an APK installer? I wanted to try out your fork of the app but can't find any link here to the APK.