Feature Request: Add option to create folders for notes

[afland]

It would be great to be able to create folders within which to better organize notes and collapse those folders for better visibility.

[penge]

Nice idea. I plan to add greater improvements such as this one (and others like custom notes order, which would include some changes in data structure and their migration) in My Notes 4.

[bhupesh-sf]

Any idea how soon this feature can land? @penge

[penge]

@bhupesh-sf
I plan to update how notes are stored (a prerequisite for this feature, but also an independent improvement I plan to do for long). This will have effect (needs to be updated as well) on how notes are: migrated between versions, edited and saved, synced between tabs, synced to and from Google Drive. It will be a major update and "a non-backward compatible update", that would be released under a new major version 4.0.
I hope I can get it done within a month. Folders can be a next step. I need to think about it.

[GATOQSECOMIO]

any update for this? (exist any milestones about this?)
Thanks and congrats for the project!

[penge]

Hi @GATOQSECOMIO

Glad you asked! I've been thinking about this recently.

There's this Folder functionality, which means, we should be able to:

1. create, list, rename, delete folders
2. move note inside/outside a folder
3. sync (to and from Google Drive) all actions from 1. and 2.

Point 3. is very important – it also adds a new level of complexity.

^^^ This concludes original approach. ^^^

Different approach

And so, I was thinking about possibly a different approach, a simple one, where we would get the organizational benefits (folder-like), most if not all of the benefits, with minimum risk. And I think I got it.

P1: The following proposal would require zero changes in the sync process (point 3.), and there would be no folders to deal with (point 1.).

Screenshot from which I'll explain further:

Let's start with the obvious drawback – there are no folders.

And now the main benefit: there are no folders. (see P1)

That means, note which holds other notes together, is not a folder, but also a note – can contain text.

Moving notes around, inside and outside "folder", would be as simple as renaming the notes, and naming them appropriately, of course. My Notes would use a convention naming to separate "folder" from note (folder-like), and understand how to interpret that (as in the Screenshot).

Behind the scenes, the file names would be (no extension for simplicity):

Math
Math__Algebra
Math__Homework

Music
Music__Favourites

Kitchen
Kitchen__Recipes

TODO

The above meets the criteria of unique filename. That means, there can be two "folders", both of which would contain note "Homework".

^^^ This concludes different (proposed) approach. ^^^

What do you think?

[bhavant]

@penge The proposed approach sounds great. The added advantage is that the folder i.e. Note used as a folder can also be used for descriptions or to-do or any other things the user might want to add to the folder or update.

[penge]

@bhavant Great to hear. I also think that Note-like folder can be a nice advantage. Will finish some things up and start working on this.