Upnote - hidden feature

Posted by MadaboutDana
Oct 12, 2022 at 02:02 PM

In fact, I’m not sure that’s entirely true. I think the “Notebooks” in UpNote are really the equivalent of an extra set of (nested) tags – you can assign a note to multiple notebooks, whereupon it will appear in all of them. But I don’t think there are multiple instances of the note, I think a single note is linked to multiple notebooks, in much the same way as if it had been given multiple tags. It’s easy to assign notes to notebooks and unassign them again – there’s no discernible lag.

So you’ve essentially got two sets of tags: one in the form of nested tags (the notebooks, complete with colourful “covers” so they look more like folders), the second in the form of more conventional, unnested tags with hash signs. But you’ve also got a list of “All Notes”, where you can see all the notes together regardless of tags/notebooks.

This leaves the developer plenty of room for adding @ tags as well! (Currently, UpNote doesn’t recognise them, although you can of course use them and then create “smart searches” based on them).

Pixelpunker wrote:
I noticed something interesting while using Upnote. A note can live in
>several notebooks at once. It is not copied and it is not aliased. There
>are simply multiple instances of the same note. This makes the good old
>hierarchical method a lot more powerful without resorting to a purely
>tag-based system.
> >Speaking of tags, using them feels effortless. Simply prefix a word with
>a dash like #tag and it will prompt you to create one. This tag then
>behaves like a single letter when using the cursor, delete or backspace
>keys. An autocompletion feature will help you create consistently named
>tags without variations in spelling. Clicking on a tag opens up a custom
>list of all notes that use it.