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A note-taking app backend using Rust (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by remustan37@sh.itjust.works to c/rust@programming.dev

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Hi everyone I was thinking of creating a backend module that has functione for a note taking app (search, sort, etc). So anyone can implement a ui on top of it.

I have some basic understanding of rust (made a just-working chip-8 emulator). But I've never used SQL or other database.

Is this plausible? Is there a similar project that I can use as reference? What are the mistakes I should avoid?

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[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

are you asking if someone would use it? probably not. sounds like a lot of work when someone can just use obsidian with plugins to get the ui they wanted

[–] remustan37@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Don't really care if anyone would use it at the moment. My main goal right now is to improve my rust skills. And I guess there are limitations to how much ui you can change in obsidian.

Also there are other contexts where a note taking like function would be needed. For example I was actually trying to make a note taking app for cosmic desktop which I can access from the Taskbar

[–] kubica@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is difficult to imagine it without an approximate idea of the way of interaction with it.

A common exercise in programming is creating a task list... Which by the way I just searched out of curiosity and I found this as first result, and doesn't look so bad taking a first look https://github.com/dezoito/rust-todo-list

[–] remustan37@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks for that

[–] BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

Plausible? Absolutely. The questions are what and why?

For notes, it seems like most people have settled on one of three things: org-mode, markdown, or free form plain text. There are some closed source tools that use a proprietary format, but fuck them.

So then the question becomes what does the backend do? Provide a way to query notes for links, topics, and todos? Keep a versioning system? Synchonization? Something else? Answer those questions and you have a project.

For references, take a look at nb, Joplin, Logseq, org-mode, anytype.