'NOTES' is a self-manager note-taking system that is designed to follow the GTD method. This document roughly lists all the features, that are meant to be tested mainly on server the side.
This version focuses only on single-user usage, and does not contain any collaborative features. However in later version there will be a collaborative version added to support small teams. See limitations below.
- A user can log in.
- A user can see it's notes, tasks, milestones, and all the metadata attached to them like tags, and categories where their stuff belongs to.
- A user can change it's settings.
- Settings are in key-value flavor.
- There's a document containing all the available keys for settings.
- Primarily used by 3rd party sync features to store and edit api keys.
- A user can change their password
- Password is encrypted with BCrypt
Limitations that will be changed in future version:
- There's no register function (will be added later on)
- Only a global admin user can manage users
- There's no email notification for registering, and changing password
- There's no 3rd party SSO login feature like Google, Facebook, etc.
- A user can't has any additional roles than their default ones
- It's an internal role of
ADMIN - Add user
- Remove user
- Activate/deactivate user
- Assign roles to them
- A user can add, edit and remove a note
- One created note is owned by the user that crated it
- A note can have multiple tags
- Tags assigned to the notes can be changed
- A note can belong to a single category
- A note can has an expiration / due date
- A note can have tasks attached to it
- Attached tasks inherits the notes due date, unless it was not set individually
- A note can have attachments form 3rd party external cloud storage app.
- A note can be pinned and unpinned
- Pinned notes are appear on the top of the page
- A note can be archived and unarchived
- Archived notes are appear on the bottom of the page
- Other notes are appear in between.
- A note can be deleted after confirmation
- A user can add and delete attachments to a note
- It can be selected from a 3rd party cloud
- A provider id is stored (in which service is the file is located at)
- An external id is stored (to locate / open it via clicking on it)
- A filename is being stored (to display it on the page)
Limitations:
- Only Google drive is supported, but it's open to support any other app like Dropbox, OneDrive or Apple Cloud (or whatever)
- Upon deletion of an external file the local link will not be deleted - This will not fixed either
- A user can add / remove / edit categories
- Categories can be nested into a tree structure
- Upon deletion all the document objects (notes, tasks) that are belong to one category will be moved to it's parent
- If a deleted note had no parent, it will be moved to
null - A user can filter their documents to categories which being shown
- Optionally it can filter ot one single category or all of it's subtree
- A user can merge two categories together, moving all the documents under another category
- The category that is being merged will be deleted
- Categories can get archived which can be hidden on the sidebar for clear view
- Archived category doesn't necessary archives all the documents in it
- Categories can get "protected", which also can get filtered from view, and all the documents are eager filtered out from all the views
- To filter documents to a "protected category" requires an extra confirmation from the user to prevent accidental clicking on it