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• Motivation
• Why another Notes and Tasks App
• Screenshots
• Contributing

There are a lot of other things out there, but all of them have drawbacks, here are a few I've tried

• Todoist -- everything is slowly becoming paid and they own all your data?
• Notion -- man that privacy policy is scary
• Oblivion -- another propetairy thing? paid sync?

why are these allalmost usable but they all have at least onemajor flaw, and why do the only tend to getworse over time?I was kind of fed up

I realized that there are a couple of things I want out of an appplication like this, and there are a couple of non-negotiables

• non-proprietary -- this is my data, fuck your terms of service
• mobile and desktop
• offline first -- I need my notes, even if I'm in the woods
• collaborative editing
• sharing by link is a must
• no single point of failure
• I need all this stuff to sync between my devices too

Realizing that this didn't exist, and all of the times in my past that I have needed this application, I realized I was done waiting for someone else to buid it.

So, how do I hope to achieve all of this?

• non-proprietary -- easy -- AGPL 3 tried and true
• mobile and desktop -- a pwa seems like common sense
• offline first -- service workers and indexedDb with eager caching
• collaborative editing - yjs and webrtc
• sharing - a user model with invite links
• no single point of failure - (plans to implement ActivityPub)
• sync - currently pocketbase subscriptions and eager caching

An assortment of desktop and mobile screenshots from the res folder

Collaboration

Image Attachments

Quick Actions

Rich Editing

• to run the main app you need to setup pocketbase locally

docker compose up

• navigate tohttp://localhost:8090 and setup your admin account

• import the schema

  • go to settings > import collections and load the file at ./src/lib/collection.json

• you then need make your env file

cp .env.defaults .env# install dependencies and start the apppnpm installpnpm dev

• navigate tohttp://localhost:5173 and create your account

• get hacking!

this is a very basic server that just handles signaling for document collaboration and normally shouldn't need to be run, and the app is currently hardcoded to point to the production one

cd ./yjs-signaling-serverpnpm installpnpm dev