Hello
I came to Boostnote, from Simplenote, and from OneNote before that... π
What pleased me, beside the nicely written articles on Medium π was:
- Sync via Dropbox (among others). That's nice. Have to check how concurrent updates are handled though (eg. on phone out of network, at home on same note, then sync.)
- Readable storage format (Cson) on accessible folder... Simplenote uses Json, putting a whole note on one line, unusable for editing outside of the app. And that's only if I export the notes. OneNote is even more opaque. Somehow, if you don't have an online version of Boostnote, it might be a way to workaround this.
- Better Markdown handling.
- Folders! Tags are nice, but still messy for me. Multilevel folders could be nice though.
Anyway, I made some notes (copy / paste / improve from Simplenote) on the desktop app, and I wanted to edit a medium-sized note (around 10,000 chars) on my phone.
I grant you, it is a low-end phone, already old when I bought it: a Wiko Darkside running Android 4.2.1...
But most apps work rather well on it. At worst, I have, sometime, very slow typing in Quora (in browser) or Instagram (in app), but not always.
So I launched Boostnote, selected Dropbox from All notes (because All notes only shows two placeholder notes "Tap here and write something"), selected my note. It opened at the end, so I scrolled up to a third of the text length, to reach the place where I have to type.
Already a problem: scrolling is veeery slow. Sometime, I have to move my finger 2 or 3 times before its scrolls...
OK, reached my point, I remove some stuff and start to type. Ouch! What I type is displayed after 1 to 5 seconds... per letter!
I wondered if it was my phone being slow. I closed some apps, I went to Firefox, then to JsFiddle where I could type a sentence at normal speed.
I copy it to paste it in BN. But when I started it again:
- it was back to All notes; I would appreciate if it opened again the note I last edited, at the place I was.
- Went to my note: all stuff (not much fortunately) which I typed so slowly was just no longer there...
A rather bad experience, if I can say so. Not sure if that's a problem with ReactNative, with CodeMirror, or some other layer, but for me, the app is just not usable, which reduces considerably the interest of BN, alas.
Note: preview scrolls at normal speed. But has another bug, which I will fill separately.