Idea Notepad is a productivity tool designed to help users document and sort their ideas, hypotheses, and experiments.
The application is developed using PySide6, a Python binding of the Qt application framework. It provides a graphical interface where users can input their ideas or notes, assign them an importance score, complexity score, and time consumption score. These scores are used to calculate a productivity score which is a way of prioritizing these ideas or notes.
This tool was designed in a scientific context to facilitate the organization and prioritization of ideas, hypotheses, and experiments. However, it can be easily repurposed for other contexts where such organization and prioritization can be beneficial.
- Add new ideas, hypotheses or experiments with an importance score, complexity score, and time consumption score.
- Filter entries based on the type (All, Ideas, Hypotheses, Experiments).
- Edit existing entries.
- Delete entries.
- Undo the last deletion.
- Save changes automatically to a JSON file.
- Load previous entries from a JSON file.
Idea Notepad requires PySide6 to run. You can install it via pip:
pip install PySide6
How to Run
Clone this repository, navigate to the directory containing the main.py file, and run the following command:
python Notepad.py
- Start by selecting the type of the entry you're about to add from the dropdown menu.
- Fill in the text fields for "Idea" and "Notes".
- Use the spin boxes to specify the "Importance", "Complexity", and "Time Consumption" of the entry.
- Click "Add Entry" to add the entry to the table.
- You can click on any row in the table to select it. The input fields will populate with the data from the selected row.
- If you make any changes to an existing entry, the "Save Changes" button will become enabled. Click it to save your changes.
- You can delete a selected entry by clicking "Delete Entry". If you accidentally delete an entry, you can click "Undo Last Deletion" to restore it.
Please note that it uses the file notes.json to persist the state of the notepad between sessions. This file will be created in the same directory as your script if it does not exist.
Contributions to the Idea Notepad are welcome. Please feel free to open a pull request or issue on GitHub.