I'm not eager to add more main features to Jinear. A couple of months ago I cut projects, Pages, and chat precisely to stop doing that. So adding one now needs a reason.
The reason is that documentation never had a home. It lived rent free on tasks: a
description that was really a spec, a comment thread that was really a decision
record, a task nobody would ever close because it was actually a document. Or it
ended up as a .txt or .md file in file storage, which is fine for keeping a file
and miserable for reading or editing one.
Calendar, tasks, files, notes. Those four are the pillars, in my opinion. There is a long list of things left to work on in this product, but I don't think there's a fifth pillar on it.
What's in it
- Notebooks, private, invite-only, or open to everyone in the workspace.
- Nested notes. Drag a note onto another to file it underneath, or onto a notebook to move it there. Moving a note takes its children along.
- Tags per notebook, with colors.
- Rich text. Headings, lists, checklists, tables, code, images.
- Offline drafts. A new note gets a local document from the first keystroke. It saves to your device immediately and syncs when there's a connection, so a flaky network costs you nothing. The editor tells you which of those two it's doing.
What's not in it yet
There's no search. You can browse the tree and use tags, but you can't search notes by title or content. That bothers me more than it probably bothers you, and it's next.
Notes also don't link to tasks or calendar events yet. They will.
If you use it and something feels wrong, email me. That's how the last three self-hosting bugs got found.