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.

By the way Upnote is awesome to use on a keyboard phone like the Uniherz Titan Pocket. This phone looks like a Blackberry Bold, but runs Android 11. Add to this the super-fast sync across devices and support for dark mode. And I am just typing away wherever I happen to be.

That's interesting – I'm always on the lookout for small mobile devices with keyboards.

And I love UpNote!

Pixelpunker wrote:

By the way Upnote is awesome to use on a keyboard phone like the Uniherz
Titan Pocket. This phone looks like a Blackberry Bold, but runs Android
11. Add to this the super-fast sync across devices and support for dark
mode. And I am just typing away wherever I happen to be.

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.

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.

That may be true on a technical level but the user can still treat notebooks as conventional folders. In a computer file system there are no actual folders either, just pointers to distributed files.

Heh, yes, of course you're right.

Pixelpunker wrote:

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>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.

That may be true on a technical level but the user can still treat
notebooks as conventional folders. In a computer file system there are
no actual folders either, just pointers to distributed files.