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One minor suggestion: just in case you haven't considered it, is to `favor undo over confirmation`. So when the user deletes a note, instead of asking if they are sure with an alert dialog, just delete the note but also have an undo buffer (or trash can) so they can restore it easily.

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Someone suggested this recently. My personal thought on it is not to try to be too smart and over-engineer things. Relying on a browser's native dialog system simply just works and doesn't really need to be maintained. Doesn't mean it will always remain this way, that's just my current attitude regarding it.

It doesn't just work though, because it is a detriment to the user's workflow and is just easier to make.

Delete with confirm gives you a far worse UX than undo does though.

Also having the confirm there, kind of disrupts the flow. At least for me, your mileage may vary. Cool website though.

This makes sense intuitively, from the user psychology perspective.

However, if you delete, but allow for the user to undo, you run the risk of a lost connection in between the delete and a potential undo call.

It's possible for the back end to still behave as in the confirm workflow (while the front end follows undo). But that's ... complicated.

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