💡 MAD - Mind and Dots 🧠📌

A powerful and modular Notion-style note-taking application built entirely in C++ (CLI) as a semester project. MAD offers a beautifully structured command-line interface that combines creativity, productivity, and programming principles.

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🚀 Features

• 🌟 User Authentication

  • New user registration with username conflict checking
  • Secure login with encrypted password storage

• 📂 Modular Note Types (OOP with Inheritance & Polymorphism)

  • 📝 Simple Notes: Plain text notes
  • ✅ To-Do Notes: Tasks with checkboxes
  • 📌 Pinned Notes: High-priority notes
  • 📖 Diary Notes: Time-stamped daily entries
  • 🎯 Project Notes: Milestones and tracking

• 💾 File Handling System

  • Each user gets a unique folder in UserNotes/
  • Credentials securely stored in UserData/

• 🧰 Other Functionalities

  • Export notes to PDF (planned)
  • Search, delete, view, and edit features for each note type
  • Folder-level management
  • Well-decorated CLI using ASCII and formatting

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🧠 Technologies & Concepts

• Language: C++
• Paradigms: Object-Oriented Programming
• Concepts Used:
  • Encapsulation, Abstraction, Inheritance, Polymorphism
  • File I/O
  • Templates
  • CLI Design

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🔧 Project Structure

MAD/ ├── src/ │ ├── main.cpp │ ├── Note.h / Note.cpp │ ├── SimpleNote.h / .cpp │ ├── ToDoNote.h / .cpp │ ├── DiaryNote.h / .cpp │ ├── ProjectNote.h / .cpp │ ├── PinNote.h / .cpp │ └── UserManager.h / .cpp ├── UserData/ # Encrypted login data ├── UserNotes/ # User-specific note storage ├── README.md └── LICENSE

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🛠️ Installation & Usage

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/your-username/MAD.git
cd MAD

# Compile the project (example using g++)
"g++ -std=c++17 -o MAD main.cpp AuthManager.cpp DiaryNote.cpp NoteManager.cpp PinNote.cpp ProjectNote.cpp SimpleNote.cpp ToDoNote.cpp"

# Run the app
"./MAD"