SNotePad offers an effortless way to capture your thoughts with a simple Markdown editor, uniquely saving your notes directly as standard files on your phone, giving you full control to easily manage, back up, and share them anytime, anywhere, without being locked into a proprietary database.
Copyright (C) 2025 Aario Shahbany
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
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SNotePad is designed for anyone who loves simplicity but needs more power than a basic notepad. It provides a clean, focused writing environment using the intuitive Markdown format, allowing you to easily structure your thoughts, create lists, emphasize text, and more, without complex menus. Whether you're jotting down quick ideas, drafting longer articles, or keeping track of important information, SNotePad makes the process smooth and efficient.
Beyond simple note creation, SNotePad offers robust organization features. Group your notes into folders that make sense to you, keeping your workspace tidy and your information easy to locate. Finding specific notes is a breeze with built-in search capabilities that quickly scan through your file contents, and you can sort your files by name or date to always have the most relevant information at your fingertips. Customization options, like choosing between light and dark themes, let you tailor the app to your preference.
What truly sets SNotePad apart is how it respects your ownership of your data. Unlike many apps that lock your notes away in internal databases or proprietary formats, SNotePad saves every note directly as standard files on your phone's storage. This means you are in full control. You can easily access, copy, move, back up using your favorite tools, share your notes via any app, or even edit them with other software – they are your files, accessible and portable, just like any other document on your device.
If you're looking for a straightforward yet capable note-taking app that puts you in charge of your notes, give SNotePad a try. Enjoy the ease of Markdown editing combined with the freedom and flexibility of direct file access for a truly empowering note-taking experience.
Here is a list of features found in the SNotePad application, based on the provided Javascript files:
Provides a rich text editing experience using the EasyMDE library, allowing users to format notes with Markdown syntax for headings, lists, bold, italics, links, code blocks, quotes, and more.
Notes are saved directly as individual files (likely .md or plain text) onto the user's phone storage, giving full control over the files for backup, sharing, or use with other applications.
Users can add multiple folders from their device storage to organize notes within the app. The sidebar displays these added folders for quick navigation.
Within a selected folder, the app displays a list of note files, showing the filename and modification date. Users can sort this list by filename (A-Z or Z-A) or by date (newest or oldest first).
A search bar allows users to quickly find notes within the currently viewed folder. The search likely includes filenames and file content, utilizing fuzzy search (Fuse.js) for flexible matching.
While editing a note, users can search for specific text within that note. Matches are highlighted.
Users can create new notes within a chosen folder. Changes can be saved, and both new and existing files can be named or renamed via the editor's filename input field.
Notes can be permanently deleted from the device storage directly through the folder view interface, with a confirmation step.
The application supports Light, Dark, and Auto (system preference) themes for user interface customization.
A sidebar displays the user-added folders for navigation. It can be toggled on smaller screens.
Supports inserting images into notes. Includes functionality for uploading images (likely via drag/drop or paste, interacting with the Android backend) and potentially handling image previews within the editor.
A toolbar provides quick access buttons for common Markdown formatting actions like bold, italic, headings, lists, quotes, code blocks, links, images, tables, horizontal rules, and undo/redo.
Users can toggle a preview mode to see how their Markdown notes will be rendered as formatted text.
Offers a split-screen view showing the Markdown source code alongside its live preview.
Allows toggling a distraction-free fullscreen mode for either the editor or the preview.
A toolbar action is available to remove Markdown formatting from a selected block of text.
Provides user feedback through toasts for actions like saving or errors and uses confirmation modals for destructive actions like deleting files. Loading indicators inform the user during operations. Includes back-button navigation history management.
The web frontend communicates with a native Android layer (AndroidInterface) to perform file system operations, manage preferences, and potentially handle other device interactions.
User interface part of this app is done via html5 and javascript. Heavy usage of jquery, bootstrap 5 and SB Admin 2
Web Asset source files are in html folder. After you compiled them, they get copied over to:
../app/src/main/assets
To faster develop and test the web asset files locally, open ../app/src/main/assets/index.html file in a browser wiht ?debug=true.
To compile web assets, run build-assets.sh It will compile them inside a docker container. To build the docker container refer to Build the Compile Container Section
Inside project root, run:
docker build -t wsn-builder .
aario.info - SNotePad HTML v1.0.0 (Based on Start Bootstrap SB Admin 2 Theme) Copyright 2025-2025 Aario Shahbany
This application utilizes several excellent open-source libraries, including:
- jQuery (License: MIT)
- Bootstrap (License: MIT)
- EasyMDE (License: MIT)
- Hammer.JS (License: MIT)
- Fuse.js (License: Apache 2.0)
- SortableJS (License: MIT)
- CodeMirror (License: MIT)
- CodeMirror Spell Checker (License: MIT)
- Marked (License: MIT)
- Typo.js (License: MIT-style)
- Font Awesome (License: CC BY 4.0, SIL OFL 1.1, MIT)
- jQuery Easing (License: BSD)
- (Others may be included in bundled dependencies)
The SNotePad application code itself is licensed under the GNU General Public License
GPL v3 License
Copyright (c) 2025 Aario Shahbany
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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