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https://www.qownnotes.org/

A text editor / notes management thing.

While pretty awesome, it's really really not for me because of some fundamental ways it thinks about data. I'll continue to use Geany with a bunch of text files.

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• https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes

  • Download from https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/releases

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• 2021-11-03 - 21.11.2 on Windows 10

2021-11-03 - 21.11.2 ∞

God damn it took me a while to even figure out that it had Windows support:

1. Web search "QOwnNotes windows"
2. Visit https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes
3. In-page search for "windows"
4. Visit https://www.qownnotes.org/
5. Visit https://www.qownnotes.org/installation/
6. In-page search for "windows"
7. Visit https://www.qownnotes.org/installation/windows.html
8. Read.

9. Visit https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/releases

   • The issues tab wasn't visible at the top row of links. I guess Microsoft are fucking idiots.

10. In-page search for "windows"

    • I didn't find anything
11. Download QOwnNotes.zip
12. Unpack

13. Find QOwnNotes.exe and run it

Fuck that was a misadventure. Do I care to lodge an issue to get that workflow fixed? Bah.

• During the welcome process, it asks me about layout, but it presents a tiny screenshot. I need something very large which also has numbers for each panel, and an explanation.

  • That functionality would also need to be duplicated within the program's setup itself, and not just in the welcome rundown.
  • I chose the default "minimal"
• "Search or create note" does not let me create a note.
• It creates .md text files, but I want them to be .markdown
• It fucking automatically dumps an additional list line when I press enter. I hate that.

• Note > Settings

  • Why is "Settings" a "Note" ?

• Undo is control-z and shift-control-z

  • But if you switch notes, it'll discard the undo history.

• Automatically saves.

  • While configurable, it can't be turned off, and it can't go above 999 seconds.

• TODO - git support on Windows

Confirm:

• enable embedded html

• hotkey the preview, and make it wide.

Configuration ∞

• Minimal layout

• Window > Panels > Show Note preview panel

Setup:

Note > Settings

• Note Folders

  • [x] Use git to keep a local history of your notes
    -- Gives me an error. I guess I have to look up how to get git integration.

Last updated 2021-11-10 at 20:44:37