NeverBlank is a full-stack web application that is a faithful clone of the popular organizational app Evernote. It is built on a Ruby on Rails backend, PostgreSQL database, and React with a Redux architecture frontend.
Users have the ability to create notes and organize them via notebook and tags. Notes are saved in the database with rich text formatting.
- Notes
- Users have the ability to create
noteswith rich formatted text.
- Users have the ability to create
- Notebooks
- Users have the ability to organize
notesintonotebooks.
- Users have the ability to organize
- Tags
- Users have the ability to organize their
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- Users have the ability to organize their
- Rich Text
- Users can save rich formatted text into their
notes.
- Users can save rich formatted text into their
A user has the ability to create/save/edit notes using the React Quill rich text editor. Each note contains a id, body, bodypreview, title, created_at and updated_at. Notes are stored in the body as raw HTML tagged text and a stripped preview of that is stored in the bodypreview of the note. Each note on creation is stored in a notebook.
Users have the ability to organize their notes in notebooks. Upon account creation, a default_notebook is generated for the user. All notes are stored in here unless a user specifically creates a new notebook and generates notes in that specific notebook. A notebook contains a author_id, title, lock (status that is given to a default_notebook to prevent deletion), created_at and updated_at. Users have the ability to edit/delete a notebook from within a modal.
Users have the ability to further organize their notes via tags. tags have a name and are associated to notes by a taggings joins table.
NeverBlank utlizes React Quill to allow the user to format and save rich formatted text. The rich formatted text is saved into a note as html tagged text.
Users will be able to sort their notes/notebooks view via catagories such as created_by, updated, by_title, etc.
Users will be able to search through notes and notebooks.
Users will be able to add reminders which will be linked to notes.