Simple Notes

A simple Swift/iOS notes app with rich formatting based on TextKit APIs.

Rich formatting summary:

• Smart links for URLs and phone numbers
• Text formatting using **bold** and *italic* simple markup
• Support for bullet, dashed, and ordered lists (e.g., * , - , 1. )
• Checkmark ✔ lists as well

Main Classes

UI layer:

• NotesListViewController. Displays all created notes in a table view.
• NoteEditorViewController. View controller to show and edit a given note.
• NoteTextStorage. Stores a given note text with rich formatting. This implements the core text formatting engine.
• CheckmarkView. Draws a Core Graphics based checkmark vector icon with a circular background. It also provides a simple animation for the checkmark.

Model layer:

• Note. The note model layer object. For simplicity, this is designed as a plain value type. The actual note contents is stored in plain text, following a simple Markdown-ish format (more on that below).
• NotesManager. Manages a list of notes model objects. This class centralizes all communication with Firebase.

Markdown-ish Encoding

The following richly formatted note (using TextKit):

is then encoded as a Markdown-based, plain text string (for database storage):

Links & Lists

Some links:

* www.google.com
* www.swift.org
* (407) 939-7000

Text in **bold** too!

To do list:

[x] Add a nice icon (?)
[x] Upload to Github
[_] Notify Nikita