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Cake day: February 16th, 2025

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  • I don’t mean actively reading and listening to the audio book, think of it like English subtitles for a English movie. You can ignore them for the most part, until you hear something you didn’t quiet catch or you were not paying attention and missed something, it’s much easier to scroll back a little and read the text to catch up rather than play the part again. Happens a lot for me when listening to audio books. And rewinding the book to catch up on the part I missed is annoying, it’s better to just quickly read the last few lines instead.











  • Regarding multi platform targeting, have you considered something like React Native or Flutter, one code base that can run on any platform might be useful at least for the MVP stage.

    Also the reason I mentioned exporting is that I’ve had to deal with a bunch of notes apps in the past where the company behind it shuts down or gets sold and then you either have to figure out how to export all those notes or risk losing them and that’s why I mostly use Obsidian on the desktop now cause even if the company behind it disappears all my notes are in my control and are in markdown format which means they can be imported into any other notes app easily.

    And the 3rd party integrations API would help in getting more value out of your notes, right now I feel all my data is siloed across several apps, the articles I read and their highlights are in Pocket, my Kindle has my book highlights, my long term notes are in Obsidian, my short term notes are in Keep, my Todos are in TickTick. I am looking into a way to consolidate all the different sources of data to get synced into one platform so I have it all centralized, I saw recently that TickTick added a integration with Notion. I’m hoping to find a quick notes app that can be made to easily sync with Obsidian. Right now I tag Keep notes that I want to copy to Obsidian and then manually copy them on weekends.


  • I’ve started looking for a open source alternative to Keep recently as well, following are few features I’m looking for in random order, maybe you could look into implementing some of these. Once I get some free time I can try to contribute to the code as well.

    1. Cross platform with sync - iOS, Android, Web, Windows, Linux (Sync should not need to rely on 3rd party servers, should be able to use free syncing solutions)
    2. Free
    3. Open Source
    4. Easy to export all my notes / data in a open format like markdown etc.
    5. Hackable - can make automations that connect to other apps like Obsidian, TickTick, maybe using some API?
    6. Good notes search functionality, with search inside a note option
    7. Notes organization, via tags and folders
    8. Notes linking like Obsidian ?
    9. Google Keep like virtual pinboard of notes display, AKA masonry layout ?
    10. Markdown support for lists, links etc
    11. Runs in the background (system tray) in Windows / Linux and can be brought up and a new note added quickly using keyboard shortcuts like TickTick.
    12. Reminders / Alerts For Notes
    13. Pin Notes
    14. Notes Can Contain Rich Links, Images, Sound, Video

    P.S I think notes collaboration might be a anti feature, it takes away from the simplicity of it and I don’t think most people take notes to share with others, I think for most people notes are personal, so I don’t know how many would want this feature.



  • Damn finally someone got into the management position and made positive changes instead of just drinking the company cool aid and becoming a part of the problem. I was very frustrated at my last job where they would pretend to half heartedly follow some Scrum / Kanban process and pretend we are doing proper project design, and task estimation when everyone was just checked out and you as a developer are just expected to figure things out on your own and if there’s any delays in the project because the stakeholders changed requirements or other external factors they won’t adjust the time line and blame the dev for the delays if those deadlines aren’t met. All this focus on the “process”, the meetings the pointless RTO, but not one person was interested in getting shit done. No wonder the company had to resort to layoffs. Hopefully at my next job I’ll find a team that’s better managed.




  • Thanks for the detailed reply that helps, this sounds really interesting, with the late stage capitalism we are going through, I’ve lost all interest in private corporate controled social networks, hence the switch to Lemmy, but the instance owner is still a single point of failure with Lemmy but at least you can switch to another instance.

    I have a few concerns about Plebbit though.

    A - with torrents you know the size of the torrent beforehand and can decide if you can download it all and continue seeding it so long as you have the space for it on your drive, but with a forum like Plebbit, how would a user know how much space on their drive Plebbit will take for the Plebbit content they interact with. Is there a way to dedicate X gigabytes of limited storage space for it and anything above that gets purged to make space for new data?

    B - One of the best uses Of Reddit imo is that it’s very easy to Google for something and find a relevant Reddit thread, especially for something niche, since Plebbit only keeps the most popular content and the rest goes away if not seeded, does it mean it won’t be a good for niche archival data, maybe that’s a use case that Plebbit isn’t design to handle and that’s okay.

    C - Bots are a big concern for most social media, especially the ones used for spreading propaganda and misinformation, how does a P2P social forum like Plebbit plan to handle bots.?