Notes not seen from nextcloud files for separate management
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Description
Description of the problem
As described in Notes app description: "Notes are saved as files in your Nextcloud, so you can view and edit them with every Nextcloud client."
While it can be useful for some, it can become quite messy if you do not want to mix notes and files.
For example, when I'm searching in my files for a content, I do not want to see my shopping list because the word I'm looking for is contained in this note. The same when I look to recent files, I find notes within the files I recently used, while I want to have a quick look to the files I used (not the notes).
Conclusion / Proposition
The user of Notes app should be able to separate the management of his notes from the nextcloud files. The user would then only be able to edit its notes within the Notes app (not from the files). This option could perfectly fit in the settings.
Solution
A simple evolution would be to store the notes files outside the files (not in //files/)
I don't know the good practices for that:
- Could it be somewhere in /appdata_xxx/? (/appdata_xxx/notes//?)
- Could it be in //notes/?
Thank you all!
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing how the Notes app currently stores files under //files/ and how its settings are handled. Compare the proposed appdata_xxx/notes// and //notes/ locations, then define the storage and file-management behavior that would keep notes out of Nextcloud file search and recent files while preserving editing in Notes.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100