Feature idea: Notebook (or similar) organizational options

[renrosz]

First, thank you so much for developing this.

I am hoping to migrate over from OneNote and so far this program has everything I need, except for organizational options. (Unless I just haven't figured out how to do that??)

I loved being able to make a notebook, then have dividers, and then have tabs, and then pages of content - organizational dreams!
I use the note-taking software for medical school so I have A TON of work and information to keep organized and having so much flexibility with OneNote, in that regard, was fantastic.

I'm not a dev, so I have no idea if this is super complicated to do, but figured it might be a feature worth exploring.

Absolutely incredible work so far with this app! I love it!

[flxzt]

Hi, thanks! You might want to check out the beta, which introduces workspace folders in an additional sidebar. Tabs will come too eventually.

This Guide explains how to install the flathub beta repository.

[mizhozan]

I also have a organized notes, but don't want to do it within the app (rnote here). From my perspective, I like to use my personal organization tool, and launch rnote on demand. Being fast, working with standard file formats pdf/svg is the most important part.

For organizing I personally use terminal file managers like ranger or lf. Notebook>Dividends>Tags>Pages are just directories even within onenote internal file format. One can free her/him from this and just rely on its file system and various tools around it. I think [your favorite] file manager could do many of such feature requests. Instead, I like to see more improvement on the core ideas which matter most.

I'm kind of advocating POSIX philosophy here

[flxzt]

You'll notice that the workspace functionality is just an integrated file browser, using regular files in user defined directories. I very intentionally did not use a database or a hidden, app-managed directory, because I feel the same as you and am sceptical about abstracting files and folders away.

So think of the workspace functionality as bookmarks with some added fluff like a custom name, icon and color. The app works just as good when files are launched from external file managers. :)