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It would be great to be able to create folders within which to better organize notes and collapse those folders for better visibility.

Nice idea. I plan to add greater improvements such as this one (and others like custom notes order, which would include some changes in data structure and their migration) in My Notes 4.

Any idea how soon this feature can land? @penge

@bhupesh-sf I plan to update how notes are stored (a prerequisite for this feature, but also an independent improvement I plan to do for long). This will have effect (needs to be updated as well) on how notes are: migrated between versions, edited and saved, synced between tabs, synced to and from Google Drive. It will be a major update and "a non-backward compatible update", that would be released under a new major version 4.0. I hope I can get it done within a month. Folders can be a next step. I need to think about it.

any update for this? (exist any milestones about this?) Thanks and congrats for the project!

Hi @GATOQSECOMIO

Glad you asked! I've been thinking about this recently.

There's this Folder functionality, which means, we should be able to:

1. create, list, rename, delete folders
2. move note inside/outside a folder
3. sync (to and from Google Drive) all actions from 1. and 2.

Point 3. is very important – it also adds a new level of complexity.

^^^ This concludes original approach. ^^^

Different approach

And so, I was thinking about possibly a different approach, a simple one, where we would get the organizational benefits (folder-like), most if not all of the benefits, with minimum risk. And I think I got it.

P1: The following proposal would require zero changes in the sync process (point 3.), and there would be no folders to deal with (point 1.).

Screenshot from which I'll explain further:

Let's start with the obvious drawback – there are no folders.

And now the main benefit: there are no folders. (see P1)

That means, note which holds other notes together, is not a folder, but also a note – can contain text.

Moving notes around, inside and outside "folder", would be as simple as renaming the notes, and naming them appropriately, of course. My Notes would use a convention naming to separate "folder" from note (folder-like), and understand how to interpret that (as in the Screenshot).

Behind the scenes, the file names would be (no extension for simplicity):

Math
Math__Algebra
Math__Homework

Music
Music__Favourites

Kitchen
Kitchen__Recipes

TODO

The above meets the criteria of unique filename. That means, there can be two "folders", both of which would contain note "Homework".

^^^ This concludes different (proposed) approach. ^^^

What do you think?

@penge The proposed approach sounds great. The added advantage is that the folder i.e. Note used as a folder can also be used for descriptions or to-do or any other things the user might want to add to the folder or update.

@bhavant Great to hear. I also think that Note-like folder can be a nice advantage. Will finish some things up and start working on this.