A new project idea

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+title = "Nice Troubled Astatine"
+date = 2022-08-03
+
+[taxonomies]
+tags = ["projects", "personal", "notes", "note taking", "microblog", "twitter"]
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+
+Note Taking Application
+
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+
+A (I hope) novel idea about note taking apps: Instead of keeping the notes and
+having either links or tags to link different content, each note is short and
+you can create a thread of notes, somewhat similar to the way microblogging
+tools like Twitter and Mastodon work.
+
+Still thinking on storage. Initially, it feels like using SQLite would suffice,
+but I'd prefer some text format for not "locking" the content into a single
+thing.
+
+Text Storage could be a couple of Markdown with special links, but that means
+that building a whole graph of connected notes (all the threads in your notes)
+would take a massive time, since every note would have to be scanned and marked
+as a parent or child of another (also, a child note could appear before a
+parent, and we would need to take that in care). Another solution would use a
+hidden file for the index: all notes are markdown (with or without the special
+links) but a single file contains the whole note structure. This could create
+an issue when the user manually changes a note.
+
+## Ideas for a GUI
+
+### Insert note
+
+```
++-------------------------------------------------+
+| +---------------------------------------------+ |
+| | New note:                                   | |
+| | [                                         ] | |
+| | [                                         ] | |
+| |                               [ + Add new ] | |
+| +---------------------------------------------+ |
+|                                                 |
+| +---------------------------------------------+ |
+| | This is a note                              | |
+| | 2022-08-03 15:53  [ Delete ] [ + Followup ] | |
+| +---------------------------------------------+ |
+|                                                 |
+| +---------------------------------------------| |
+| | Another note, not necessarily a follow up   | |
+| | of the one above.                           | |
+| | 2022-08-03 15:50  [ Delete ] [ + Followup ] | |
+| +---------------------------------------------+ |
++-------------------------------------------------+
+```
+
+### Map view
+
+```
+              +-------------------------+
+             -| A follow up of "A note" |
++---------+ / +-------------------------+
+| A note  |-
++---------+ \ +-------------------+   +------------------------+
+             -| Another follow up |---| Follow up of "Another" |
+	      +-------------------+   +------------------------+
+```