From fd5053b508340d6adc9bacc62274f9b6fda863be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julio Biason Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2022 15:58:33 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] A new project idea --- content/projects/astatine.md | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 67 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/projects/astatine.md diff --git a/content/projects/astatine.md b/content/projects/astatine.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..91a2f25 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/projects/astatine.md @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ ++++ +title = "Nice Troubled Astatine" +date = 2022-08-03 + +[taxonomies] +tags = ["projects", "personal", "notes", "note taking", "microblog", "twitter"] ++++ + +Note Taking Application + + + +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" | + +-------------------+ +------------------------+ +```