Problem – the Notes app isn't mobile friendly

Let's start by quantifying the problem. We need to explore how well (or not) the application behaves on a mobile device. This is simple to do:

  1. Start the Notes application. Determine the IP address of the host system.
  2. Using your mobile device, connect to the service using the IP address, and browse around the Notes application, putting it through its paces, noting any difficulties.

Another way to approach this is to use your desktop browser, resizing it to be very narrow. The Chrome DevTools also includes a mobile device emulator. Either way, you can mimic the small screen size of a smartphone on your desktop.

To see a real user interface problem on a mobile screen, edit views/noteedit.ejs and ...

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