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Hi everyone!

It’s me again)

For those who haven’t heard of it yet - VOID is a local-first, open-source “second brain” app. Think of it as combining the flexibility of Obsidian with the structured organization of Notion.

As the title says - VOID just reached 100 stars on GitHub!

Huge thanks for all your support - it truly motivates me to work even harder and bring the project to release as soon as possible.

But this post isn’t only about “showing off.” Over the past week I’ve mainly been polishing the editor’s behavior, and now I’m finally happy with it. I think it’s time to share the roadmap for the next year(I think?):

  • Note linking, global indexing of todos and tags, and embedded content (videos, images, audio, etc.)

  • Migration from Excalidraw canvas to a custom JSON Canvas implementation

  • Databases (similar to Notion)

  • Sync server improvements and a self-hosted Docker container

  • Plugin API (Lua for the backend and any frontend framework you can imagine)

  • Full redesign of the entire app (yes, we finally have a designer!)

  • And of course… optimization, optimization, optimization

We also now have a Lemmy community where I’ll post small devlogs, thoughts, and some behind-the-scenes updates about VOID. If you’re interested in the project, feel free to join there — or hop into our GitHub Discussions.

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And one more thing - the first beta is coming very soon!
Stay tuned!

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[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Looking at your post and the README, I can't figure out what this app does, nor what "second brain" means.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 9 points 1 month ago

Open source Obsidian notes application.

The second brain part comes (I think) from the zettelkasten method of brain dumping all of your thoughts, notes on things you learn, etc... "On paper” in order to organize it and not lose it.

It is often recommended (along with to-do lists) for people with ADHD, and good for people like me with bad short-medium term memory.

[–] Transhumanist@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (24 children)

Basically, it’s just powerful app that is used to manage user knowledge management system/notes

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Transhumanist@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s just app to manage your notes/knowledge management system

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[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Would suggest updating the ReadMe as I was also confused in regard to the usage of this app, seems cool, not sure what I personally would use it for.

As of making this comment you’re at 108 stars, this will make it 109, keep up the great work!

[–] Transhumanist@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Thanks! I planned readme rework this week, but forgot… sorry, I’ll finish it soon

[–] LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I had to look up what all this means, it's new to me. But very cool! Please post when a release is out, I'd love to try it

[–] Transhumanist@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

Thanks! I’ll let you know when release comes

[–] Mutant@piefed.social 7 points 1 month ago

What are the advantages over Joplin?

[–] ISO@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How much "vibe coding" is involved?

And are you Peter Thiel by any chance 😉

[–] Transhumanist@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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. Why Peter Thiel though?

[–] ISO@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Can you explain the rust-fetch dependency?

Why Peter Thiel though?

It was a (failed) joke about your user-name.

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[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This looks AWESOME! As an ADHD squirrel, I'm super excited about this. I have zero programming skill, but I'll happily test the hell out of it.

[–] Transhumanist@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks, it means a lot to me)

[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know how to access your app, can you pass a pointer?

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A reference would be safer

[–] Transhumanist@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

App is still WIP, however beta is coming soon

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[–] libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I can't get through EBADENGINE error messages spawned by npm.

[–] int32@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

maybe npm doesn't support combudtion engines anymore :(

[–] Transhumanist@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can you create an issue? I’ll fix it in meantime

[–] libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ofcourse, whats your email?

[–] Transhumanist@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

gmail: ghostoftranshumanist@gmail.com

matrix: @transhumanist:chat.void-project.ru

Thanks for helping improve VOID

[–] ruan@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just as a referenced for "second brain" local apps I suggest to look at dendron. Dendron is no longer being maintained but it still works and I use it for my notes since I adopted it a few year ago, it's pretty great for programmers since it works on top of VS Code.

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

I've been using and enjoying Logseq.

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