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Here's vekker's list without the formatting:

* Organisation of the notes is cumbersome: it wasn't clear to me what is meant with a note and a section, and how to actually start writing (I would expect to be able to start writing right away rather than first creating a notebook/section/note, choosing a title, etc...)

* I would like to tag my notes à la Evernote, and filter notes based on this.

* Speaking of searching/filtering: it would be nice to list all search results (and organisation of the notes for that matter) in the main view.

* Maximise screen real estate for the actual note taking: why is there such a huge header and side nav... on a 13" screen I barely have room to see my notes. I would like to hide all that in a hamburger menu.

* Keyboard shortcuts!

* The ability to drag and drop images or other documents would be nice

* The text in the textarea when taking a note is so small & there is no padding.

Thank you very much! The original list was almost unreadable on my smartphone.

Ha! Thanks for that, I'm mostly a lurker here so I was surprised to learn HN puts everything on one line, I thought indenting it was the only way to have a bulleted list.

Text indented with two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim, which is intended for code.

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

There is no bulleted list format; just start the line with a bullet (such as a hyphen) and put a blank line between list items.

Good comment, but please don't indent like that, it makes things very hard to read. Two spaces at the start of the line turns on code formatting, which uses a monospace font and scrolls sideways instead of wrapping: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

Thanks for the list!

Just on a couple points I may already have what you're looking for, you can type in a hashtag (like #todo) anywhere in a markdown element and then that note will show up in a search for that hashtag (that search also works cross-notepads).

The side-nav can be hidden (although the rest of the chrome can't, which is something I want to get sorted). Also, on the textarea size, I think I'm using the browser default, but I might be wrong there.

Thanks for a decent list though, it's great to have action items.

Forks are always welcome and I appreciate all pull requests.

Would a full UI redesign proposal be appreciated too?

I'd like to give it a shot if I found some spare time.

I definitely wouldn't say no to something like that. It would probably make my life a little easier.