Discourse Personal Notes Plugin
What is Discourse?
Discourse is an open source forum software founded in 2013 by Jeff Atwood (co-founder of Stack Overflow), Robin Ward, and Sam Saffron.
What does the Personal Notes plugin do?
Personal Notes is a Discourse plugin that allows users to take down notes while scrolling through forum posts and save notes for future viewing.
Front End - Languages / Concepts Used
- HTML, SCSS, JavaScript
- Handlebars
- Discourse API
- Virtual DOM, Widgets, Plugin Outlets
Key Features
1) User Customization
- Note Color
- Font
- Font Style
- Font Size
2) Convenient
- Button located in the top-left corner below the Discourse header
3) Non-intrusive
- Occupies minimal space
- Button can be toggled to show/hide the personal notes interface
- Styling options can be tucked away
