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I would love a replacement for keep. I’m currently running nextcloud and the UI differences or lack of android widgets are keeping my wife from switching. Most of of your list already has great replacements that exist but for some reason a keep competitor that is current just doesn’t exist

Carnet is a nextcloud app that comes pretty close and but it needs a TON of TLC on the server side. I keep telling myself I’ll work on it but life gets in the way. If you have time and know node/php I would suggest looking there instead of making yet another note app. Nextcloud can handle sharing and has some encryption stuff as other plugins etc. Otherwise keep posting here, I would love to follow your progress.

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MrMcGasion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
The Nextcloud Notes app for Android does have a couple of widgets (note list and an individual note), is there widget that is missing?

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- Dangerhart@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  For that one it’s not the widgets but the notes behavior. She wants check lists that self organize as they get checked. In the app itself she wants the post-it note like layout
  
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  - MrMcGasion@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Yeah, check lists in Notes could really use some improvement for sure. Honestly, just now looking through the Github for the Android Nextcloud Notes app it looks like there’s a good deal of technical debt that has been stacking up over time from trying to bring more modern features to what started as a minimal text-only notes app.
    
    There is a way to enable “grid view” in the app settings for the more post-it view that shows the first part of the contents, but doesn’t seem to show on notes with markdown formatting, so anything with a list doesn’t show a preview.
    
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bruce965@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Okay, that’s a nice suggestion. I was thinking to try to keep the UI more generic rather than integrate it with operating systems, but an Android widget might not be too hard to do, I might investigate later.

I do know Node, but I am not skilled with PHP, I haven’t used it for 10 years and I’ve noticed that things have changed a lot since the version I knew. I feel NextCloud is a bit overbloated, but I didn’t think about checking how they handled the communication part, that’s a good idea. It doesn’t overlap much with what I had in mind, but I might still be able to learn something. Thanks!

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