Pie in the sky idea, but I was thinking about the potential for being able to edit simple txt files directly in Kinopio.
Laid out the idea a bit more in full here: https://kinopio.club/kinopio-txt-EntZl1twixPz4PNepx9Q3
this might be a good candidate for an addon
3 Likes
I think the way I was envisioning this working is that there’d be an option in the sidebar for ‘notes’, and that’d show you a space specific md or plain text editing textarea that you could write whatever.
The big difference is it’d be one note per space, instead of an arbitrary number of notes? not sure if that would make it less useful. (for my usecase i’d treat it like a temporary scratchpad, I’d write stuff and then delete or append new stuff to it)
so in the example of uploading a txt file to edit it in kinopio, you’d instead copy and paste it to notes.
There’d also be a way to copy selected item names into Notes (probably paint select items → copy → to notes)
discord convo https://discord.com/channels/857305113936134204/857724442797146173/1485703370445684827
the things that make it a bigger project:
- if the notes area is collaborative (gdocs style w multi cursors)
- if the sidebar is user resizeable (like carddetails) to give extra width for writing on wide monitors
1 Like
Yeah, I think it could be interesting to keep it private to the user even in collaborative spaces given it’s more a scratch pad. So each user has their own scratch pad in all their spaces—no collaboration.
I probably would want it a little bigger than the current side bar, but not much and if we get it to a good size, don’t think it needs to be resizable.
1 Like
So each user has their own scratch pad in all their spaces—no collaboration.
that would help with scope, but you don’t think there are collab use cases for wanting to work on a doc together from a space?
from a ui perspective , if the notepad lives inside the sidebar it’s kinda constrained by that width. plus in general a wider sidebar might be to other people’s preference in general (just like with resizeable card details)
if i can get the scope down to a 1-2 day project then ofc i can do it sooner rather than later.
speccing it out in https://kinopio.club/sidebar-notepad-ot-t6-i4YrsGqPo494hnjI_Z
I could definitely see people wanting to collaborate on docs, but I think giving each user a way to have a place to write things that are private to them in a collaborative space is a feature in its own right that I think would be pretty cool.
makes sense, and is easier to build . even in collab spaces the framing could be something like “work on ideas in private over here until you’re ready to share them”
wip private notes. i’ve got the server part mostly done now.
1 Like