Allow more structured notes
wookey opened this issue · comments
We've been looking for an app to create geolocated information, and geonotes is the most useful thing I've found so far. I was expecting to find many more as I thought a lot of people would be doing this for various purposes.
Our particular purpose is recording cave locations and it would be very useful to present users with a form to fill in rather than a plain text box, so they are reminded what items need to be recorded (name, description, access, tag-status, survey-status) etc. (date and location are already automatically recorded)
Would it be possible to add some sort of mechanism for configurable forms for users that need to collect slightly more structured date than free-form text? I expect there are quite a lot of such users.
We would be happy to do some work on the app to add this functionality if it would be accepted.
If this is not something you want to add, are you aware of any apps that already do this?
thanks
Hi, it does sound like something people would use. However, GeoNotes has a strong focus on strong simplicity (s. the usability principles). I don't think customizable forms (and forms in general) fit into GeoNotes. But feel free to fork this project and adjust it to your needs.
The code around the classes Note (containing the input, location, etc.) and GeoNotesMarker (extending the OsmDroid-Marker class to put things on the map) will probably not change in the near future. Same is true for the database scheme of the notes. This means keeping your potential fork in sync with this main repo should be quite easy.
Unfortunately I don't know any other great general purpose note taking apps (that's why I started working on GeoNotes 😉 ). OsmAnd can also record text-, photo- and video-notes, however, the usability is too verbose/inconvenient for me but maybe it'll work for you? But they have no forms either.