You Shall Be Released

Recently I picked up a project I left behind a few months ago. I read the code; the structure isn’t much clear — it separates the files based on the Model-View-Controller roles, while I switched to the structure which group files based on their domain roles and expresses each domain’s functionality via components. Other than that, it looks decent to me.

The reason I dropped the project? Perhaps I dig it too long and can’t find the focus, so I shifted to another project for a breath of fresh.

Never mind that now, I want an app where I can write down notes like plain text, with some custom syntax if necessary, and view it with a customizable user interface. At that time, I was learning Japanese, so I start with the vocabulary list and kanji card deck features in mind.

For the reading part, I add an appearance customize page, as for the writing part, I add a document editor module, use newlines with some tokens to parse the plain text to a document in memory, and save each instance as a JSON file in local storage.

If I ever doubted that was too complex, I don’t think it is now, for I picked up the idea very quickly. And this time I want to finish it as soon as possible.

First, now dark mode has come out, implementing it is a piece of cake.

Second is the fun part — code refactoring, I certainly got better at naming.

Third, add customization where users can define the action when they tap a row or card; change the way to favorite a document from swiping to the right to touch a star-shaped button; share a record as Markdown file instead of plain JSON. This time I am the user who dogfoods, also the coder who then fixed it.

Last but not least, I include a set of examples with a User Manual in the bundle and load it on the first install.

With a few screenshots, a few words of description, I launched it on the App Store.