Request for an accountless mode

[Mohammed-Al-Haidary]

Hi stefan,

Hope all is well. I would like to request an option to allow the user to use the app as an offline standalone notes app without the need for a Nextcloud account.

The motive: If we envision the best privacy-respecting phone in the future, it would have Nextcloud Notes on it, and just like many users today use Samsung Notes without a Samsung account, it would make sense for Nextcloud Notes to be able to do the same.

Thank you in advance,
Kind regards.

[korelstar]

I like that idea. It should be easy to implement after #599 is finished:

• local notes could have account ID 0
• the account list in sidebar includes a "fake" account for local notes
• synchronization has to skip that account
• it would be nice if one could move notes between accounts

[jancborchardt]

We should make sure though that:

• The default is somehow to make it very easy and straightforward to connect to your Nextcloud so that your notes are synced
• It is absolutely clear if notes are not synced because you are not connected
• If you have an account connected already and no "local" notes, we need to check that it’s not so possible to accidentally move a note from being synced to not synced

[stefan-niedermann]

One can easily bulk move all Notesfrom a local account to another (synced) account, so there is no problem, even if a user starts with a local account.

But i agree, that the user must be propted to add a sync account at the very first start of the app (like it is now). Just in case he cancels the import dialog, he can use the local account.

[sk22]

I actually stopped using Nextcloud because I decided to sync things via Syncthing instead, and thus having this implemented would help a lot. I still have the notes folder from my Nextcloud, but it's being synced via Syncthing, and it hurts a lot having to use file browsers to manually create new files as notes, etc. Being able to use Nextcloud Notes with my local directory would be really great and I miss this app a lot. (Really considering moving some things like my notes to a Nextcloud once again because of this)

[stefan-niedermann]

@sk22 Unfortunately it wouldn't help anything in your case because the Notes Android App doesn't store the notes in files but in a database.

[Ged296123]

Thank you for developing this app. Ive been using it for some time and have been very happy with it. Like others in this context, I too am moving from Nextcloud to syncing with my PC using Syncthing. Ive really gotten used to using this app and would very much appreciate if I could use a local folder to store my notes and without a Nextcloud account. Thank you and best of luck on your future developments.