Overhaul Printing
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I would like to see an overhaul to the printing-process. Currently the user has to know that "printing the page" will only print the note rendered in markdown. That is a bit limited and i can see some improvements.
Describe the solution you'd like
I would like to see dedicated printing-buttons somewhere. The Collectives-App has a button for that in each collective, but the notes app should have one on each note.
Additionally, i think it would be a good idea to have a "print all" button per folder, where we build a pdf from each note, making each note-title the chapter-title, and depending on the nesting of that file, subchapters. This allows for printing "whole books" similarly to the collectives app.
This would work with the current category-approach, but it would be trivially to understand if we would also switch to a folder based concept.
Additional Context:
There is https://www.npmjs.com/package/markdown-pdf. Alternatives were discussed in #179. It worked fine locally, and as per documentation, concatenation works aswell.
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Research direction
Review the current printing behavior and the alternatives discussed in #179; the issue names no files or tests, so first map the note and folder UI entry points. Done means dedicated printing for each note and a folder-level print-all flow that produces a PDF with note titles and nesting represented as chapters and subchapters.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, markdown
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100