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Clibu Notes Alpha release - feedback request
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Posted by Neville Franks
Sep 24, 2019 at 11:25 PM
Hi all, I’ve been quietly working on a complete rewrite of Clibu, incorporating some functionality from Surfulater and from Clibu.
The most visible aspects so far are a new notes tree which has Hoisting and Filters to quickly drill down to specific sets of notes.
The Notes tree can be ordered by note title, user defined order (via drag and drop), date created and date modified. Each of these can be set to ascending or descending.
Tree items have user selectable icons and background colors (which can be filtered).
Notes can also be filtered using fuzzy search and a new full text search is coming.
It includes a new, more powerful and robust rich text editor with Markdown support coming. An outline view is planned, possibly with hoisting and Collaborative editing.
All content is stored locally in a database in your Browser. This provides data privacy and fast access. Full offline support is planned with optional synchronization across devices.
This early alpha release will give you an insight into where we are heading.
You can read more about this release and get the link to try out Demo app from https://blog.clibu.com/2019/09/24/clibu-notes-alpha-demo-release-v0-20-21/
I’d greatly appreciate any suggestions, criticisms etc. Either here on on the Clibu Blog.
- Neville
Posted by Paul Korm
Sep 25, 2019 at 12:25 PM
Thank you for your efforts, Neville. The new feature is interesting.
BTW, Safari 13 on macOS does not like the Clibu demo—a stern voice delivers a message about a SQL problem. The demo is fine on Chrome on macOS, though. You might want to mention compatibility in your blog?
Posted by Neville Franks
Sep 25, 2019 at 08:34 PM
Hi Paul, Thanks for letting me know about Safari. Unfortunately Apple doesn’t give Safari much love.
The “About” info in the app does mention we are only testing on Chrome at this stage. I’ll add a note to the Blog as well.
Posted by satis
Sep 26, 2019 at 01:13 PM
Neville Franks wrote:
>Unfortunately Apple
>doesn’t give Safari much love.
Given the regular updates, plus the fact that about 17% of all browsers (and about 25% of mobile browser traffic) = Safari, what do you mean by “much love”?
Posted by Neville Franks
Sep 26, 2019 at 08:53 PM
satis wrote:
>
>Neville Franks wrote:
>>Unfortunately Apple
>>doesn’t give Safari much love.
>
>Given the regular updates, plus the fact that about 17% of all browsers
>(and about 25% of mobile browser traffic) = Safari, what do you mean by
>“much love”?
Important new capabilities are being added to Browsers all the time. These make it possible to develop richer and more desktop like applications.
Google Chrome is at the forefront in this regard. Even Microsoft realized how far behind Edge was and are switching to Chrome’s Browser engine. Firefox tries hard to keep up. And Apple doesn’t.
Apple want developers to keep building native mobile apps that have to go through the Apple Store so Apple makes lots of money.
OTOH Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) which can be built using the latest Browser capabilities can completely bypass the Apple Store and deliver most all the functionality of native apps. This may be why Apple is so slow at implementing the new capabilities needed to for PWAs.
In fact iOS itself hampers modern web apps by preventing Browsers like Chrome from using their browser engines on iOS.
So iOS and Safari are a real hindrance for many developers.