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.

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

  • ruan@lemmy.eco.br
    3·
    22 hours ago

    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.

  • ISO@lemmy.zip
    4·
    1 day ago

    How much “vibe coding” is involved?

    And are you Peter Thiel by any chance 😉

    • Transhumanist@lemmy.mlOP
      3·
      22 hours ago

      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·
        11 hours ago

        Can you explain the rust-fetch dependency?

        Why Peter Thiel though?

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

        • Transhumanist@lemmy.mlOP
          1·
          11 hours ago

          I used rust fetch to fetch css for themes and manifests from GitHub repository with themes (and plugins soon as I rewrite current solution based on git2 dependency) that you import. Probably there was a better solution, but rust fetch finds me first)

            • Transhumanist@lemmy.mlOP
              1·
              10 hours ago

              Could you message me in matrix or telegram? I always trying to improve my skills, your feedback could help me a lot.

            • Transhumanist@lemmy.mlOP
              1·
              10 hours ago

              I just googled smth like fetch in rust and it was one of the first link. What’s wrong with it, still make its job done.

              • ISO@lemmy.zip
                2·
                10 hours ago

                What’s wrong with it

                • It’s a random crate no one uses.
                • You’re not even really “using” it. You are just importing a re-export of reqwest, which is what I expected you to immediately notice after I brought it into attention. You can obviously just remove it and use reqwest directly.
                • Still, trusting a re-export is not a trivial matter. The random author of the no-name crate could replace the original reqwest with something malicious, or bad in some other way, in a v0.1.1 release. That (theoretical) release will be picked up after a cargo update call, or when Cargo.lock is not checked, which is the case by default with libraries.
                • Transhumanist@lemmy.mlOP
                  1·
                  10 hours ago

                  When you asked me about this crate, I just wrote how it’s used not checking the code itself, my bad

                • Transhumanist@lemmy.mlOP
                  1·
                  10 hours ago

                  Thanks, checked parts where I use it, found a few serious bugs in code. I’ll remove rust-fetch and use pure reqwest library. Thanks again, you helped a lot)

  • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
    5·
    2 days ago

    is universal flatpak packaging planned? this looks like something i’d want to use to replace my plaintext notes.

  • CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.ml
    32·
    3 days ago

    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·
      2 days 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.mlOP
      97·
      3 days ago

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

        • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world
          91·
          2 days ago

          How dare someone have the audacity to create a program that isn’t useful for YOU, the person around whom the entire universe rotates!

          Seriously, though, the creator is volunteering their time and energy to create something for the greater good, even if you can’t figure it out. If you can’t invest the minimal effort to not shit on it, invest the even smaller amount to fuck off.

        • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          13·
          2 days ago

          Notion, Obsidian and Evernote are also second brain apps. None of the major ones are open source though, which is what makes this project cool. It’s fine if that’s not useful for you, but the way you’re replying is kind of reductive, and honestly a bit mean.

          • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
            39·
            2 days ago

            manage user knowledge management system/notes

            doesn’t have the same ring to it as

            Managing and organizing notes

            The first one sounds like it’s a meta-management engine with a very abstract purpose that is not explained in OP. The second - your wording - sounds like a simple Notes app, and I mean “simple” in a good way. The OP doesn’t manage to communicate such a simple message.

            • grindemup@lemmy.world
              111·
              2 days ago

              It may not have the same ring to it but if you think about it for more than two seconds you may realize that it has the same meaning :-)

          • AdmiralWhiskersIV@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            5·
            2 days ago

            Don’t take it to heart. I’ve literally been spit on for passing out food to the homeless. Misery loves company and some people are so miserable that they form a multinational corporation.

            • Transhumanist@lemmy.mlOP
              4·
              2 days ago

              Thanks) I’m here not to argue with anyone, but just to share my work. Still readme could be confusing for someone, I’ll rework it soon.

  • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    19·
    2 days ago

    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!

  • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    4·
    2 days ago

    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.