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2023/08/03#p1
I stumbled across a nice app in the Play Store last night: ruff.
It's a note taking app (yeah, yeah) that's billed as "a writer's best companion" β and that's just the start of the dog inspired branding which is pretty fun.
Still, rather than just a normal notes app, it's actually a take on the "spark file" approach to note taking: "a single sheet of text". The difference, however, is that you can stash those sheets (archive), starts fresh one and come back to them (fetch β the dog theme continues) later. Everything can be exported as plain text files.
What I especially like about it is the overall aesthetic typified by the natural language settings:
It's a nice touch that a lot of apps could learn from.
The question remains, will I use it? I don't know. I've got /notes which serves as my go to place for such things. I've installed so many notes apps over the years and invariably uninstalled them again within a matter of minutes β ruff has stayed on my phone, so who knows?
Maybe it will inspire me to create a "spark file" type feature on the site.
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2023/08/03#p2
Yesterday's mutterings about keeping things simple lead me to another idea, another feature: one-click publishing of drafts.
Publishing a draft would mean opening the post, changing the status and then hitting 'Update'. If I am happy with it why not just have a way to submit it with one click/tap?
Drafts will not have any comments so the 'show comments' icon is redundant. If a post is a draft I have, therefore, replaced it with a new icon which, when clicked, immediately publishes the post.
If you're seeing this it worked!
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You may recall me mentioning an app called ruff which acts like a spark file but with the ability to make more than one. I said at the time: 'Maybe itβ¦