Inspiration

Context

i write a lot of notes, i like to store all my tasks, plans, thoughts in a digital document organised with directories.
i love how easy markdown is compared to writing plain text for notes and how good it looks when formatted.
so, for my notes taking, i enjoyed using Obsidian as my daily driver. i like it because

• i love the markdown editor (the WYSIWYG editor obsidian gives is the best in my Opinion)
• i love that it gives me that great editor on my mobile as well as my desktop
• i kind of like that it has extra features like extensions, notes linking, graph view, etc. but i don’t really care about those

Problems

• Obsidian is great but it takes up a lot of space
• Obsidian Sync Functionality is hidden behind a paywall
• when creating a new note, it creates it in the root of the Vault’s Directory. it doesn’t allow you to create a note in the last focused directory
• Obsidian is governed by a For Profit entity which shapes the ideation process to not be as open and collaborative as FOSS does

Workarounds

• i solved the syncing problem by using an always running app called Syncthing.
  you set it up one time on both your devices and it will keep your notes synced as long as both devices are on the same local network

Solution (Proper)

at some point, i got self motivated enough to tackle all these problems in a proper way by:

• creating a free and open source replica of Obsidian
• fixing storage space issues with Tauri, which is a new framework for developing cross platform apps in a much much smaller footprint
• adding better file management functionalities that solve my gripe about creating notes
• WIP: creating a baked in, seamless, sync functionality that requires very minimal setup from the user