Setting for Sending selected text to Currently Active Note

[v3ss0n]

Expected behaviour

When selected text is sent , it should go to current note instead of making new note .
There should be a setting to allow that.

Actual behaviour

When slected text is sent - it makes a new note , only goes if selected text of same link is sent again

Steps to reproduce

• RIght Click selected text
• Send to QOwnNotes

[pbek]

You can do that already with the help of the scripting engine: https://www.qownnotes.org/scripting/hooks.html#websocketrawdatahook

There also is an example linked there that does exactly that.

[v3ss0n]

Thank you very much , i am checking now.
I am loving QOwnNotes , it is best i had tried ( Tried Evernote , Joplin , Zettlr , all other electron based markdown notes) .
QOwnNotes is what i am looking for past 5-6 years since Basket become unmaintained.

[pbek]

Thank you! 😁 I was on Basket too, but I didn't like the lock-in into a file format and I wanted to use my notes on all platforms and sync them around. 😀

[v3ss0n]

Nitce to know main developer was basket user too. Basket is ancient now since no development for so long. QOwnNotes is far flexible and i really love no lock-in file format. Wheni startted I export my notes from Joplin as Markdown with subfolders and then i point that forlder in QownNotes - and it works like magic.
Only thing missing from QownNotes is basket style note organization - columns of notes and easily sorting and grouping them , what do you think? fit in QOwnNotes scope?

[pbek]

• columns of notes and easily sorting and grouping them , what do you think? fit in QOwnNotes scope?

Since QON doesn't have the notes in a database (like basket) this is hard to achieve, the only source of truth is the folder structure of your note folder...

[v3ss0n]

Could be done as extra folder list view with columns of notes for as an optional setting.
Sorting will be only Alphabetical or by Modified.

That way if user choose to enable coulmn mode of small markdown files , he can.
Grouping will be folder/Subfolder structure or multiple tags ?.

Doable but could be a lot of work.

[pbek]

A huge amount of work and it would introduce a lot of regressions for sure.

[v3ss0n]

I agree , not proper way to do too. Better keep this way,