Working offline
This page is for the person who writes the notes. It states what still works when your device has no connection.
Your notes live on your device as well as on your server, so the application opens and works offline.
What works
- Opening the application, the note tree, and any note.
- Writing, and Save. The version is made on your device and queued.
- Creating, renaming, moving, and deleting a note or a folder.
- Trash, and Needs attention.
- Search, over the notes on this device.
- Changing the theme.
What needs a connection
History, Restore, Delete permanently, Export, and attaching an image. Each of these reads from or writes to your server.
What you see
The bottom of the sidebar carries one sentence about your saves. Offline it reads "No connection. Notes stay on this device." When the connection returns it changes to "Sending your save to the server." and then "Everything is saved to the server." A save that waits in Needs attention does not go when the connection returns, so the sentence then reads "1 save needs attention."
There is no separate queue list and no retry button: the queue sends itself in order as soon as it can. If another device changed the same note meanwhile, the work of both goes into the note, and the note offers Review. See Saving and history.
The command palette adds a line saying that its results come from this device.
Two things to know
Persistent storage. After your first save the browser is asked to keep your data. If it refuses, it can remove the data of this device when the device needs space. Notes on your server stay safe, so a quiet notice says this once, and Close removes it from that device. When changes are only on this device and cannot go to your server, a stronger notice shows until they do. Keep the tab open until then.
Updates. When a new version of the application has downloaded, a notice offers Update now. The update waits for you, so a running tab is never replaced while you write. When your server needs a newer version, saving to the server waits, and the same notice asks you to update. Your work stays on this device until then.
When you select Update now, every open tab of the application stores its text and closes, then reloads with the new version. If a tab cannot store its text, the update stops and every tab stays as it was.
Signing out with queued saves
If saves have not reached your server yet, Settings offers two buttons: Sign out and keep them, which leaves them on this device for your next sign-in, and Sign out and remove them, which does not.