Allow saving note to a file about simple-notes

[halfwit]

I'm also interested in something that uses just an underlying directory structure - text files, and opens them. (Secretly, it's so I can reuse my very simple Linux scripts to keep notes, distributing them with syncthing) - I'll be happy to help out on this if I can. Haven't done Android in a while, though.

[tibbi]

like an "Open" button where you can select text files to open? I can add it once Im done with the file picker at the file manager :p I want to reuse it at more apps.

[halfwit]

Not sure why my email didn't go through, but whatever - my thought was have a setting for "notes directory", and with that set, your application opens in a list view of files - select whichever one, "shopping list" "progamming snippets" or whatever else you have in your random notes dir - and then having that simple edit view once the file is selected

[halfwit]

(This would also address #3)

[tibbi]

okay I see, so it is indeed #3 :D

[smichel17]

I don't think you need to let the user pick a folder for the first round. I would imagine this feature as:

There is a folder, /storage/emulated/0/simplenotes/. In that folder, there's a bunch of files, where Filename.txt corresponds to a note in the app with the name Filename.

If you add a new file to that directory externally, a new note appears in the app. If you add a new note in the app, a new file is created. Then you can sync that directory to the cloud with nextCloud, Google drive, etc -- or just open it in different app if you wanted to do that for some reason.

[smichel17]

Also, I'm not sure how helpful it is, but there's some gpl kotlin code for dealing with a file over here.

[halfwit]

That's a fine compromise for me!

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[trubitsyn]

@tibbi seems like you have implemented this feature already :)