I think we (initial EverNote dev team [1]) were first who came up with reasonable virtual list implementation for notes.
The metaphor of notes tape (a.k.a. "writing notes down") was quite natural for most of people, that's why EverNote got so many users initially. The key point was to add powerful search tools (including OCR and image recognition) and categorization (tags) on top of that tape.
Notes appeared as an "endless tape":
https://www.phonearena.com/news/Two-thirds-of-app-users-in-U...
I think we (initial EverNote dev team [1]) were first who came up with reasonable virtual list implementation for notes.
The metaphor of notes tape (a.k.a. "writing notes down") was quite natural for most of people, that's why EverNote got so many users initially. The key point was to add powerful search tools (including OCR and image recognition) and categorization (tags) on top of that tape.
Just in case: Sciter's SDK contains sample implementation[2] of such virtual tape: https://quark.sciter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/vtape.pn...
[1] https://notes.sciter.com/2017/09/11/motivation-and-a-bit-of-...
[2] https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-sdk/tree/master/samples/%2...