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[tamlok]

Hi,

Having been developing VNote for one and a half years, I want to hear more comments about VNote. I am too lazy to set up a forum, so I post this issue to ask for your voice about VNote. Thanks!

P.S. Please do not put issues here. :)

[eda53]

Though I just tried out VNote last night, I feel so regret that I know it too late. It is my favourite software, and will be the one in years -- pretty sure!

Not sure whether the ordinary user would like it or not, but I suppose, as a vim user and a developer, the features of VNote are what I have being seeking for a long time: such as the markdown for document, syntax highlight for code as the note, the attachments as the collection of the various materials, magic word, etc.

By the way, I'd like to recommend a combination of VNote and Psimo Mount's personal folder which can store/compress/encrypt the folders used by VNote into a single file. So far for me, no one can beat this combination.

[vmexia]

Well I said it before and I will say it again, this piece of software is one my favorites since I read about it on Hacker News. For me, VNote + PowerGREP/GREP + GDrive is THE KILLER COMBO (Note that VNote already has the search build in, but I love the versatility of being able to just grep a bunch of files and be able to get results, unlike Microsoft's OneNote and other similar note taking tools).

Keep up the awesome work :)

[tamlok]

@vmexia Thanks! VNote's built-in search also lists the matching lines. You could try Universal Entry for a quick search. It is crazy convenient!

[vmexia]

What I meant was that even without VNote installed your notes are still useful due to its open markdown format, unlike similar tools. Example: I have my notebooks synchronized with GDrive so I can easily read them anywhere I want, even without having VNotes installed, like on my phone/tablet. If I want to find a particular note and for some reason I don't happen to have VNote there I can just use a simple grep and VOILÀ. Obviously you will lose some of the built in functionality like the image preview etc, but even that is easily bypassed since you have the image path written on the note.

[robin-a-meade]

Tip: Create alert boxes

Paste the following into a new VNote note to see a demo of a way to create alert boxes:

# Demo of Alert Boxes

This demonstrates a way to produce alert boxes.

<div class=NOTE></div>

> **NOTE**: This blockquote will be styled using the CSS NOTE class defined below.
> I found the technique [here](https://developer.run/17).

<div class=DANGER></div>

> Slippery when wet

<style>
.NOTE+blockquote {
padding: 8px 35px 8px 14px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
border-radius: 4px;
background-color: #d9edf7;
border: 1px solid #bce8f1;
}
.NOTE+blockquote p {
color: #31708f;
}
.DANGER+blockquote {
padding: 8px 35px 8px 14px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
text-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,0.5);
background-color: rgba(232,76,61,0.1);
border-radius: 4px;
border: 1px solid rgba(232,76,61,0.1);
}
.DANGER+blockquote p {
color: #d82a1a;
}
.DANGER+blockquote p:before {
content: "⚠ ";
font-weight: bold;
font-size: larger;
display: inline;
}
</style>

Screenshot showing result in VNote preview mode:

This is a good approach because markdown compatibility is maintained; these alerts will degrade gracefully into plain blockquotes when processed by classic markdown.

With use of jQuery (or similar), the marker div wouldn't even be needed. A jQuery script could search for all blockquotes beginning with <b>NOTE</b> and add the INFO class. This would simplify the CSS selectors too.

A next step would be to try to incorporate the CSS (and maybe jQuery script) into a theme. I haven't looked into that yet.

[LeoSantos7]

I've downloaded VNote especially to check its vim mode. How do I enter the VIM mode?

[tamlok]

@LeoSantos7 Hi, please enable Vim mode in the settings dialog and restart VNote.

[light42]

Hi @tamlok, I love your application. But I hesitated to fully commited using vnote, because I'm not sure if it could handle searching large volume of notes. I need to know, how many notes vnote could save until it stopped to behave properly, ten thousand, a hundred thousand? Because I'm really a messy person, and need a very long time before I could process my raw notes into pretty essay and throw it off.

[tamlok]

@light42 VNote stores your notes in native file system, so VNote could handle as many notes as your OS could handle. Load of notebooks/folders/notes is on demand. When doing full-text search, you could restrict the search within opened notes, current folder, current notebook, or all notebooks. The search is implemented via C++. I think it is fast enough even for thousands of files (or at least faster than those Electrons).

BTW, when you have a hundred thousand files, I think the way to organize them is more important.

Thanks!

[lisdude]

I definitely appreciate all of your work! VNote has finally ended my ever growing Markdown document comparing note taking software.

I don't really have anything constructive to say other than thank you and, because it's 2019, an emoji: 👍

[watson387]

Great editor/viewer/notebook you got here. I've tried a lot of them and I've finally settled on Vnote. It has an intuitive interface and the fact that it saves everything in plain text/MD and helps organize folders is a major bonus. I use it for everything from a work diary, notes on my new house, Postgresql schemas and scripts, to-dos, etc. Thanks for this tamlok!

Edit: I also want to note that I use it on two Windows computers and two computers running Ubuntu Disco. I haven't come across any of the strange behaviors in Windows so far.

[watson387]

Markvis is a markdown-it plugin for creating graphs. Is this something that would be difficult to add to Vnote? mermaid is great for flowcharts. Having something to create graphs would be excellent.

[henices]

I hope we can have a upgrade notifiation.

Vnote 2.7.2 is avaliable. :)

[lisdude]

If you're looking for suggestions for new features, could we have a folder monitor that would automatically add new markdown files as notes? I'm trying out a workflow where I use 1Writer for iOS to manage my notes when I'm away from my laptop, but when I add new files with 1Writer I have to manually import them into VNote. It would be handy if VNote would just see that the file was added to a monitored directory and auto-import it as a note.

[tamlok]

@lisdude Try the Explorer tab at the top left
corner? In this way, you will use vnote as an editor with full text search.

[jbcaramar]

I just spent the last week looking for Linux tools that would allow me to easily organize and maintain a collection of notes and documentation using markdown. Although there's some nice apps for markdown out there, none of them seem to be designed primarily for use as a note manager per se, The ones that try often hide your markdown in a sqlite db, which is not terribly convenient.

I didn't find mention of VNote anywhere until two days ago (why is VNote not more widely known?) . It's exactly what I've been looking for! Notes open as rendered markdown, their appearance is easily customizable, there's sidebar navigation for organizing your notes, you can use tags... it's like everything I wanted in a single app.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for making such an excellent application! I switched from Mac OS to Linux a couple of years ago and this is one of the most brilliant apps I've run into on Linux so far. Using markdown for notes had been problematic, so I decided that I needed to get serious about finding a working solution. I think finding VNote just resolved all my issues at once!

Please keep up the great work on this app!

[RyanGreenup]

Yeah VNote is arguably the best app for note taking (other thanorg-mode if you have the patience to configure emacs) but it’s so unheard of compared to things like Notable and boostnote.

@jbcaramar You should look at installing recoll , it will let you build a search engine for the markdown notes that you can search instantly, in conjunction with interlinking notes you’ll feel so organised.

[irosyadi]

Thank's for your great software @tamlok . It is unfortunate I just found VNote lately. I've compared it to Zettlr or Obsidian, and I think VNote is far better.

[ribezzz]

hi,
thank you for your program!

There is a way to include font awesome icons?

[tamlok]

@ribezzz thank you! please post a new issue for the font awesome.

[proxseas]

@tamlok I'm very impressed with this application but there is one glaring downside - table management. As far as I can tell, tables are treated as plaintext. This is a very common shortcoming for many markdown editors - but not all of them. Typora, MarkText, and Joplin (in WYSIWYG mode) all support basic table management operations like inserting/deleting rows/columns.
Furthermore, viewing tables in VNote's particular manner is not a pleasant experience. I can always toggle out of editing into the rendering mode, but then I can't edit the table anymore. Is it possible, by chance, to view the output/rendered version of the document, side by side, as many markdown editors do? I tried splitting the content area and opening another instance of the same file, but VNote didn't open it (deliberately, I'm sure).
Everything is top notch in VNote. This is my only gripe!

[tamlok]

@proxseas VNote now will automatically align columns of table but does lack shortcut to add line or column. Please check out this video for the smart table feature. Will enhance it someday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFCmCFZKxJ4

[JasonAn]

in the preview mode. how can i soft wrap the code block?

[tamlok]

in the preview mode. how can i soft wrap the code block?

You need to customize the CSS. Refer to the documentation for details.

P.S. For such issues, please post a new issue instead of here. :)

[RyanGreenup]

I use Vnote with a collection of other tools like vim/emacs/vscode/marktext and so on. When I create new files outside Vnote they aren't tracked and I find myself having to delete all the json files and then make a new notebook which will rescan all the files and directories anyway:

find ./ -name '_vnote.json' -exec rm {} \; 

I can't just use the explorer mode either because it doesn't follow links inside VNote.

I think it would be better if Vnote had:

• some capacity to watch files, or
• An option to recursively scan all files in a directory for new files, or
• An option to delete all the _vnote.json files and choose a new directory (even if it's the same directory)
• follow links to MD files in Explorer mode?

what do you think?

[sakkamade]

@tamlok, Hello. Thank you, for great application.

Is there's a way to make the <script> tag to work?

Like to insert JS between <script> and </script> tags.

[feloxx]

Qun Zhu Niu Bility

[tamlok]

@sakkamade Hi, the <script> tag should work but you need to hook it to some event to trigger. Feel free to open a new issue for this.

[Yu-Shengi]

windows 10 安装 VNote 3.4.0 为什么很多时候刚刚打开就会直接卡死

[tamlok]

windows 10 安装 VNote 3.4.0 为什么很多时候刚刚打开就会直接卡死

#853

[tamlok]

如果是跨版本更新，删除用户文件夹下面的vnotex.json

[pengchenggang]

希望能有一个删除当前行的快捷键 我用vscode，或者是idea，就是用ctrl+d 删除当前行，非常好用，或者咱们有这个功能也行哟

[tamlok]

VNote 目前只有 Vi 的按键模式，后面会添加 vscode 的模式。