Apache
Quick Notes
Products:
IntelliJ IDEA,
Android Studio
Vendor:
Jitendra Rana
Email:
Website:
http://www.jsrana.com/home/idea/quicknotes
SourceCode: Quick_Notes_4696.zip
Description:
Quick Notes is a plugin written for IntelliJ IDEA. This plugin adds the ability to manage multiple text notes within the IDEA itself. These could be some tips, notes, code snippets, etc that usually comes to mind while coding and Quick Notes provides an ideal way to save those thoughts quickly and easily.
Quick Notes is compatible with multiple opened IDEA instances, so any change made to any note in one instance of IDEA gets reflected in the other IDEA instances without any delay.
Features
Quick Notes plugin provides many features aimed towards easy maintenance and quick access to the Notes. Here are some of the major features of this plugin
- Add and Manage multiple notes
- Rename an existing note
- Delete an existing note
- Manage notes across multiple IDEA instances
- Any change in one IDEA instance gets reflected across other IDEA instances
- Notes are saved in user's home folder "userhome.ideaquicknotes"
- Show or hide line numbers
- The toolbar can be placed at top or bottom location
- Ability to change Font of notes
- Ability to search notes
- Ability to save notes to a file
Click here to read/download the manual for this plugin.
For any bugs or suggestions, please leave a comment on the plugin page at
http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?id=4456
Downloads: 11580
Rating:
Participated in rating: 12
Recent change notes:
Added ability to change background color, background line color and hiding background lines
Comments:
I think it`ll be cool to have an opportunity to change directory for .ideaquicknotes folder or if this folder will be saved in .IntelliJIdea\config\plugins\ (because directory for this folder we can change in idea.properties).
Thank's for your work!!!
Thank you again!
Only one quibble, can you allow soft text wrapping?
Feedback in terms of bugs/annoyances:
1. The notes aren't project-specific. If I open a different project I get the same set of notes. If I add new tabs (e.g. History, Bugs, ToDo) I've no idea which project they're for.
2. I regularly back-up the notes by saving them to a file which is on a partition that gets backed-up to an external device. Each time I save to the file I have to navigate through my directory tree to find it, as the plugin doesn't remember the path to it.
3. I've never found a direct way to restore the notes from a back-up file (e.g. load them in to a new installation of idea ofter re-building my pc). The only method seems to be copy and paste.
4. I personally wish it would simply load (when I open Idea/a project) from the back-up file and save to it instead using the location it automaticaally uses. That way the problem of keeping the back-up up-to-date is eliminated and there's no risk of anything being lost if drive C: is wiped during an emergency re-installation of Windows.
5. I write each entry to the bottem of the note. Frequently, when I copy, paste or click on the text, the cursor/display jumps to the top of the note. This becomes tedious and annoying.
6. The 'Add New Note' button looks too much like a forward arrow button if I'm not concentrating on what I'm doing, and I've found myself clicking on it and adding a new note when I just meant to go to the next note. I know it's not logical for the forward arrow to be to the right of the back arrow but it's easy for the brain to be fooled when the two buttons are so close together. Adding a little more space between the 'Add Note' and 'Previos Note' buttons would cure this. I don't know if anyone else has found this, so it may just be me that's at fault.
7. Cosmetic. I find the note for my history log gets quite long, but the line numbering and horizontal lines stops at line 128.
8. Cosmetic: No tool-tips on the buttons for 'List all Notes' and 'Options'.
As I said earlier, it's a very useful plugin. I hope the feedback is of use to you.
A couple of usability suggestions:
1. Move all the controls from the bottom of the page to the top of the page. When user starts a new note, they are working at the top of the page; that's where the controls should be.
2. Move the 'rename' button to be grouped with the other controls. It took me quite a while to find it in its present location.
3. Change the default name for a new note from "New Note" to the date, e.g. "February 10, 2010" This way most notes will have a different name so there will be less reason to have to rename them.