Quick Dynalist - The native Android app for Dynalist

Ricardo_Ribeiro · April 9, 2020, 3:00pm

What a terrific app Louis, I use it every day. Many thanks!

One question / request - I usually add voice items in my native language and the Google assistant speech to text is horrible at recognizing what I said. I know this is also true for many foreign languages.

It would be fantastic if, instead of relying on the Google Assistant, the voice item would be inserted as an MP3 (low khz would suffice to save bandwidth and upload quota).

I would envision it in a such a way that after clicking on the icon “Voice Item”, the MP3 recording would start recording immediately with 2 small buttons (such as in the Quick Dialog box) always present: PAUSE and SEND. The Pause option would pause the recording process. Then a Resume button would appear, after which the recording would continue from the point where it was paused.

After hitting SEND (during recording or even during pause), the recording would generate an MP3 file and be attached to the inbox we’ve specified. Any plans on doing something like this in the future?

Thanks!

Louis_Kirsch · April 9, 2020, 5:25pm

This actually sounds quite nice. I could also use this. I’ll add it to the list of ideas, can’t say when I’ll have time to implement it though.

Ricardo_Ribeiro · April 10, 2020, 6:44am

Great to hear! I believe this feature would be a game changer for many people.
Thanks again for your work!

MarcusM · July 29, 2020, 6:18pm

Trying QD for the first time today, I’m quite impressed. Thank you for your generous work!

But a few things make it, in many cases, less useful for me than the native Dynalist app.

For better or worse, I use notes profusely as an integrated part of my Dynalist workflow, and I’ve customized the CSS so notes are lighter but not smaller than normal text. Therefore the two features which would make QD far more useful to me are:

Option to show full notes for all visible items (though obviously not for children or grandchildren)
Option to customize font sizes, ideally including note size independently of item size

Louis_Kirsch · July 30, 2020, 3:11am

Thanks Marcus!

You want to see multiple notes at once if I understand correctly? Otherwise you can just select the item and pull down the toolbar.

Are you talking specifically about the font sizes in the list of items or also in other places? (e.g. navigation drawer, widgets, filter configuration, edit dialog, etc)

Jeremy_Lovelock · November 3, 2020, 2:02am

New to Dynalist - set up QD on my phone - excellent
In case I have missed anything, is there a user guide?
Also is it possible to create new documents and folders or can this only be done on the official app?

Louis_Kirsch · November 3, 2020, 6:11am

There is no user guide at the moment (except for this thread perhaps). I would love to put one together though at some point Creating documents and folders is not possible from the app at the moment but the API for that was created by the Dynalist team in the meanwhile so it is just a matter of implementing it – any contributions welcome. https://github.com/louiskirsch/QuickDynalist

Jeremy_Lovelock · November 3, 2020, 7:44am

Thanks Louis - much appreciated 🤸

Jeremy_Lovelock · November 4, 2020, 10:24pm

Found a small bug - when editing a Note, Gboard’s auto-capitalisation fails (start of sentence). This feature works fine in editing an Item and in other areas of QD

Jeremy_Lovelock · November 5, 2020, 2:34am

When I try to configure G Assistant, QD is not showing as an option for adding notes. Any suggestions?

Louis_Kirsch · November 5, 2020, 8:58am

Oh, interesting. Perhaps Google Assistant has changed how they interface with the notes app.
EDIT: Yes, this feature has to be reimplemented using their new API. https://developers.google.com/assistant/app/intents
On the upside it now allows for much more control.

Create item list	Construct a new list of items.
Get digital document	Search and view existing documents or notes.
Get item list	Search and view personal lists and public collections.
Create digital document	Construct a new document or note.
Update digital document	Edit an existing note or document.
Update item list	Add an item to an existing list.

Thanks for reporting.

Jeremy_Lovelock · November 5, 2020, 11:09am

Thanks for your feedback

FM · May 29, 2021, 4:16pm

Hi Louis,

I have a suggestion to quick Dynalist. When I tap a node, it often opens the tag search instead of opening the node. I need to tap several times to get it work, finding the right place to tap.

Is there any way to optimize that behaviour?

Cheers

Louis_Kirsch · May 31, 2021, 11:02am

Hi FM,

this is probably a problem with the tag ‘link’ position calculation. I vaguely remember that the default link handling in Android was subpar (aka broken).

Maybe one can fix it in this file

github.com

louiskirsch/QuickDynalist/blob/master/app/src/main/java/com/louiskirsch/quickdynalist/OnLinkTouchListener.kt

package com.louiskirsch.quickdynalist

import android.annotation.SuppressLint
import android.view.MotionEvent
import android.view.View
import android.text.style.ClickableSpan
import android.widget.TextView
import android.text.Spannable


/**
 * Allows TextViews with clickable links while still not handling all touch events
 */
class OnLinkTouchListener: View.OnTouchListener {

    @SuppressLint("ClickableViewAccessibility")
    override fun onTouch(v: View?, event: MotionEvent?): Boolean {
        var ret = false
        val text = (v as TextView).text
        val stext = Spannable.Factory.getInstance().newSpannable(text)

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I think this repository had some of the fixes that one might be able to transfer over

FM · June 1, 2021, 8:28am

Ah yes, this could be the point. Probably an option in quickdynalist to disable autolink on tags would also help me.

Louis_Kirsch · June 1, 2021, 10:46am

I put it on the list of bugs. Not sure when I will get to that. Feel free to make a github pull request if you are familiar with Android / software development.

Robin · August 28, 2021, 6:45am

Will Google assistant interesting return in the future?

BigChungus · August 28, 2021, 7:27pm

You can control Dynalist via Google Assistant via IFTTT, here is a tutorial [Tutorial] Add to multiple inboxes! via any voice assistant! [IFTTT Webhooks]

Mark_Eichenlaub · April 4, 2022, 2:40pm

Does QuickDynalist understand dates recurring from completion?

I set up a filter with “Date: Today”, and it seems like it captures
!(2022-04-04)
and
!(2022-04-04 | 1d)

but not
!(2022-04-04 | ~1d)

Also, !(2022-04-04 | ~1d) shows up in QuickDynalist as plain text; it doesn’t have a little calendar icon next to it like the other date formats do.

Mark_Eichenlaub · April 5, 2022, 9:39am

I’m also wondering whether using “Sort Order: By Date” is supposed to sort based on time of day as well calendar day.

The filter I mentioned in the previous post is set up to show everything due today, and I added time of day to some tasks so that morning tasks appear near the top and evening tasks near the bottom, but I don’t see the list reorganizing based on this.