After having used the web interface for a couple of weeks, a couple of feature requests–
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The server times out/logs out after some indeterminate time frame after which one must re-login. However, the interface does not indicate that this timeout has occurred and just simply becomes unresponsive. Suggestions:
- When the connection times out, offer a warning (e.g., “You have been inactive for X minutes, click okay to continue your session”); and/or when the connection times out, return to the login page.
And/or, - A server-side setting to determine the length of time before a timeout occurs.
- When the connection times out, offer a warning (e.g., “You have been inactive for X minutes, click okay to continue your session”); and/or when the connection times out, return to the login page.
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Widescreen vs. Standard view (and Get Info pane) settings stick between sessions. On the web, I prefer the widescreen view with the Info Pane open, but this constantly resets.
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The ability to create a new Markdown note from the web interface.
- Relatedly, if I embed a style sheet in a Markdown note, the web interface uses an embedded style sheet, but does NOT use the global style sheet if there isn’t one embedded.
- This also raises the issue that it would be nice to be able to get the item link (x-devonthink-item://…) for a record in the web interface.
- Relatedly, if I embed a style sheet in a Markdown note, the web interface uses an embedded style sheet, but does NOT use the global style sheet if there isn’t one embedded.
Obviously, the more features of the desktop version I can have web-based access to, the better–but I also really do want to respect the fact that the web version can never be as feature-rich as the desktop version and that my use-case for the webserver is not the intended use-case. I also don’t want to lose development capital chasing the “perfect” web app–and, I think this was one of Evernote’s faults–trying to be everything to everyone instead of focusing on their strengths.
