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Note taking new note URL

Category

Capabilities (Fugu)

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 95)

Intent stage

Prepare to ship

Summary

Parses a web app manifest entry for a URL to open to take a new note in a note-taking web app, allowing OS integrations.

Motivation

Note-taking apps often have OS and user agent integrations. This adds a way for web apps to identify themselves as note-taking apps, and a declarative way to do a simple note-taking action: open a URL to take a new note. Will match existing Chrome App behavior in CrOS (see tracking bug).

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://wicg.github.io/manifest-incubations/index.html#note_taking-member
• Firefox: No signal — Requested 2021-07-19
• Safari: No signal — Requested 2021-07-19
• Web developers: Positive — Tweeted on 2021-07-19. Generally positive response.
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1185678

Explainers: https://github.com/WICG/manifest-incubations/blob/gh-pages/note_taking-explainer.md

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