In RFC for CalDAV, there are three types of incidences : the events, the tasks and the journals. The journals can be used as a transmit structure to move notes between a server and a client. Basically, journals has a summary (the note title), a description (the note body), a colour, a last modified field.
Nextcloud is not using this protocol for notes, though. But some other servers may.
Radicale differentiates between calendar, journal, and tasks. Evolution has Calendar, Tasks, and Memos.
I’d say journal/memos is close enough to “Notes” and as dcaliste points out, the structure is much the same anyhow.
If you have a large number of notes (in my case, 10–30) and are migrating from iOS to SFOS, it is difficult to maintain a clear overview in the native Notes app. This is because each note takes up a significant amount of screen space.
I suggest adding a second view option that allows users to organize and display notes in folders/ lists or columns for a more compact layout, as shown in this example (quick drawing by myself how it could look like, NO finalized UI Interface):
What do you think about it?
Folders/categories is a good idea - but that mock-up looks like crap honestly.
Good idea.
Nice background!
the picture attached was only a quick drawing to visualize my intent, it’s no finalized UI design 
I realize you are not proposing literal blue rectangles.
But there is no need to mess with the base layout just because you are viewing notes in a certain category.
Not sure if the enormous margins are intentional - but the reduced preview length is definitely for the worse. Notes, for better or worse, don’t t really have headings - so a multi-line preview is a good thing.
indeed - currently i do have organized my notes with headlines, to find quicker what i was searching for.
The preview of more lines is a good thing, maybe let’s switch from one headline to the first 3 lines of notes text - can be headline or text or whatever is in there.
Then we do have enough space in the list left to show more notes at once to get a better overview.
I think everybody has his preferences how to organize notes, it just needs to be flexible enough that the preferred view can be adjusted
Can’t count on that for anyone else - especially with it not even a hint to add them.
What do you mean switch - it is currently 6 lines. The switch you are proposing is the other direction - and hidden in a proposal about categories at that. The current overview of 10 notes is a pretty great amount.
I disagree. Keep it simple. Nobody needs the headache of a config swamp. Add a high-value feature or three and be done with it. You will actually please fewer people if you start going advanced.
Yep: “decisions, not options”.
