Recently I was using Joplin and I was typing out some ideas on a note I had. The note consisted of a lot of other text, I was just adding to it. In this process, I was using my Pixel phone to type out some things and somehow the keyboard went haywire and rather than typing a new note, MY PHONE SELECTED ALL OF THE TEXT IN THE NOTE AND OVERWROTE EVERYTHING.
I have an Android and know iPhone has a shake to undo feature. That did not work. I then thought "there must be some way to undo in android thats buried away". Nope, none. You have to have a special keyboard to even consider trying to do an undo operation. I checked the Joplin history and was greeted with "This note has no history".
In a mix of frustration, disappointment, and sadness I accepted the unfortunate results of a mishap with my phone. I would have to be incredibly careful in the future, but it sucked to have so many of my notes deleted in the blink of an eye.
But luckily I had a thought in that instant. My Joplin is set to sync with OneDrive and I know OneDrive has a version history. In desperation, I logged in and navigated to the note which I had been writing. I breathed a sigh of relief when the version history was filled with minute-by-minute changes that were being pushed by my phone. See below (notice when the file size drops significantly).
So I provide this as a helpful tip for those who use OneDrive, but it also got me to wondering. Is there a way to capitalize on this feature with the OneDrive API? To give Joplin the ability to look into version history already being stored by Microsoft to improve the resilience of the application? Just thought I would bring up my experience to generate some discussion.
