Unlike many other tools, VOID is not just another note-taking app.
no offense. but if I got a penny for everytime Ive heard this....
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Unlike many other tools, VOID is not just another note-taking app.
no offense. but if I got a penny for everytime Ive heard this....
no offense. but if I got a penny for everytime Ive heard this…
yeah, I know) but I try my best to make this project as perfect and useful as possible
for everyone who walked this path of finding (or making) the perfect note app. there is no general perfect. everybody will find eventually a workflow which works - and evolves.
but I whish you all the best and that you may built an app which inspires many. :)
the idea of being a true second brain
It's good that it's built with this idea, but what is the actual implementation of this idea? What features make it «a true second brain» that other «second brain» apps (obsidian and hundred other note taking apps) don't have?
I did a bunch of research into second brain/zettelkasten apps (that is to say, apps that support note taking with note interlinking and rich text) earlier this year, and I couldn't find a single app in the category that's (1) FOSS, (2) stores notes as .md files natively (Logseq will import/export to .md, but it's not native), and (3) is cross-platform in some way (for my purposes, I need it to be on Linux, Android, and Mac OS, or have a usable web app). Even the ones that get close all have some kind of gimmick to them, or are super ugly or slow or otherwise hard to use.
If Void can get those three nailed, and do it in a usable way, it will fill a very particular and exciting niche.
This is a mandatory comment about Emacs' org mode since .org
files are extremely similar in syntax to .md
and can be interconverted extremely easily.
Considering that one of your requirements is already using .md
files, which is a format pretty common.. maybe a combination of different apps on different platforms would work? Specially considering that mobile UIs are likely gonna have different requirements than desktop UIs.
One approach I was considering was using neutrinote on Android (which is a relatively simple but functional no-bullshit markdown editor supporting cross-linking between markdown files) and VSCode / VSCodium on the desktop (which also supports cross-linking, and I think has some note-taking related extensions), or maybe zed, or whichever editor you might already be using that can support markdown. Then use syncthing for the sync.
However, I have not yet really gotten into it, primarily because second brain/zettelkasten note-taking in general has never really fully clicked with me, most of the time when I take notes I just use them as a scratchpad / temporary storage.. without much of a proper organization ... just a note meant to be scrapped as soon as it's acted on. Often I just use tabs in my notepad app, without really saving them to a file.
You might want to highlight what differentiates it from Obsidian, except being open source. Just from looking at the page, I don't know what it means to have organization capabilities from Notion?
Yeah, the readme says stuff that don't mean that much. Sure, all FOSS and no cloud but WHAT DOES IT DO??
Thanks, i’ll rework README in the near future.
Looking good!
Slightly off-topic, but with all the craps that's going on with Github, ever consider having your projects on Codeberg instead?
can you tell me in short what’s wrong with GitHub? I totally missed it
MS bought it and is folding it into their "AI" division
The more the merrier - have you had a chance to try anytype out?
they have this local sync function that works even without any internet (sort of like a LAN?)
its been really handy for me as I often work in places without internet, but retain the ability to sync between laptop & phone.
(Also are notifications and kanbans on the roadmap?)
Yes, tried anytype, but I struggle with it’a lack of plugins and overall extensibility. As for kanban and notifications, yep, they are already on roadmap
brilliant, Im excited to try it - cheers for sharing it with the world for free.
no hidden cloud
Shots fired at Notesnook.
A new competitor to Obsidian other than Trilium and Logseq would be awesome. I have to ask are you vibe coding? The length of the project and extensive use of emojis in the read me makes me question… I wish you the best. If you get a server container and an iPhone app I would seriously support it.
I tried to make README less boring using emoji) And I’m pretty confident in my Rust and Vue skills, so not using chatGPT(or any other AI tool) in my work). I wrote all of the VOID by my hands.
Nice :] sounds great. Any chance you will create a Flatpak?
Yep, 100% I will! But a little bit later, cause for now app is still WIP
Is it a notes app? Second brain doesn’t mean anything to me, and I don’t understand what it does from your README. The name is also confusing. What does it mean by open source infrastructure?
Markdown support, plugin ecosystem, automation?
Full markdown support, all notes are just .md files like in obsidian. I’m currently working on plugins api and trying to implement layer that would allow obsidian plugin’s compatibility. Automation: I don’t really understand what you’re trying to say, can you specify please?
Cool!! Will definitely check it out.
There's already many foss notes apps.
What none of them do well is syncing and collaboration without paying for hosting or self hosting. Joplin lets me workaround this with 2 Dropbox files (1 per profile, 1 being a shared profile) and it's a pain. And the Dropbox file isn't encrypted.
An encrypted API access file I can shove anywhere and use would be lovely as an option. Anyway I can share across users would be lovely.
What none of them do well is syncing and collaboration without paying for hosting or self hosting.
Not to pick on you here, but you're surprised that nobody is bulding an app for free and then paying for a server to also give away for free? Open source devs already struggle to make ends meet - now they're supposed to operate at a loss?
What none of them do well is syncing and sharing notes without paying for hosting or self hosting.
What about Notesnook's monograph functionality? Unless you mean sharing as in collaboration not publishing
I have one suggestion so far. Consider moving to Codeberg. Github has become a very unsafe place to keep FOSS projects.
Neat project, shame on the basic premise. Just remember to delete your second brain once in a while, for the health of your first one, and actually use it for something creative once in a while.
Note taking has it's place, but I agree. Once you go from note taking into crippling habitual hivemind its lost the main point. The time I spent on making my notes look amazing and growing my thought library rather than working on executing my actual ideas was getting insane.
I've seen some of the Obsidian maxi's graphs in tutorial videos. There are people that have spent literal weeks of their precious time on these massive dot-to-line hoards. It really becomes literal e-hoarding. Like counseling levels of bad habit. Then they hold these humongous, continent-sized graphs up like a trophy. Mine's bigger than yours. Whip it out and prove it.
Now I only jot ideas I want to remember later if I'm in the middle of something, write down dreams I may forget (or nightmares, as it helps me calm down and analyze them logically), and keep to my diet and shopping lists.
I really don't need more than that. Any reminders or schedules go in my android FOSS calendar (Etar).