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jotty·page - Checklists & Notes made it easy (lemmy.world)
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Hi, This is my first post here, pretty intimidating! haha

I shared this on reddit, and one of my community members told me this is a good place to also share it, so here we go!

A couple of months back I have built a checklist/note taking app for myself and called it rwMarkable, posted it on reddit and a lot of people seemed to resonate to it, so I kept adding new features and enjoying the small but very involved community that has built around it.

For anyone who hasn't heard of the project before, here's a quick bullet list of some features:

  • Checklists: Create task lists with drag & drop reordering, progress bars, and categories. Supports both simple checklists and advanced task projects with Kanban boards and time tracking.
  • Text Notes: A clean WYSIWYG editor for your notes, powered by TipTap with full Markdown support and codeblock syntax highlighting.
  • Sharing: Share checklists or notes with other users or publicly with shareable links.
  • File-Based: No database needed! Everything is stored in simple Markdown and JSON files in a single data directory.
  • User Management: An admin panel to create and manage user accounts with session tracking.
  • Customisable: 14+ built-in themes plus easy custom theme support.
  • API Access: Programmatic access to your checklists and notes via REST API with authentication for various integrations.
  • OIDC integration: Use any provider to authenticate, follow this tutorial on how to

There have been a lot of requests to change the name due to it sounding a little too close to reMarkable (the tablet - which, btw, i had no idea existed at the time lol) and after getting some amazing community suggestions we landed on jotty.

You can find all the info (and a demo) here: https://jotty.page/

You can find the repo here: https://github.com/fccview/jotty

Let me know what you think, the app is very much still in development and every week new features get added (that said, I really value the simplicity and lightweight nature of it, so I will not add anything that compromises it).

Few screenshots

p.s. Nice to meet you all <3

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[-] AliasAKA@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

MIT license, cool! I’ll check this out. Any chance to migrate from discord to a more open platform for community engagement?

[-] fccview@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Hey, thank you! Well I know discord very well so I just went for it because it's what I am familiar with, but I am fairly open to have more than one community engagement platform, what did you have in mind? I heard a lot of good things about signal within the self-host community, but then again.. it did go down with the aws outage with everything else yesterday lol

[-] Balinares@pawb.social 1 points 7 months ago

A ticket tracker and a wiki!

Else all the institutional knowledge about your software that your users are adding too vanishes forever into a black box. And that'd be a dang pity

[-] fccview@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Yes! I am absolutely working on a wiki! Release notes are very detailed so it's easy to track progress scrolling through them on GitHub (I do this for work too, so I am fairly organised with that)

I'll add a wiki to the official site once I'm done building it, there is a help button within the app itself with some knowledge base on key features ♥️

[-] alto@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Matrix is generally very nice for chat, and Discourse for forums.

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

looks great! I need something like this for work tbh and will be checking it out.

question though, do you have any plans on incorporating a backend DB at all in the future? even something as small as SQLite?

I ask because I have used projects that store in flatfile json and as time progresses those files get very large and the UX degrades as the app is used.

[-] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Please, for the love of god, please be the first app of this kind to support the iCAL VTODO & VJOURNAL standards.

[-] fccview@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Hey! I will need to add a calendar at some point, so if you open an issue on the GitHub repo about this I can have a proper look, just done some research and definitely not opposed to the idea, seems pretty standard to me

[-] paequ2@lemmy.today 1 points 7 months ago

Looks cool. Good job!

I know the MIT license tends to be the default... buuuuutttt..... there are other licenses too like AGPLv3 or others.

[-] d13@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

I'm getting a Cloudflare error trying to access your demo site.

Also, do you support back linking? That's a feature that's very important to me.

[-] fccview@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

Should be back, of course everything went down while I was asleep, the joys 🤦‍♂️ By back linking you mean offline cache that links to a server when back online? If so, no, not yet at least

[-] d13@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

Backlinking is when you link to a page, it links back.

For example, if I have a daily journal, I can say Fixed a problem with my [[Raspberry Pi]] setup... and then a few weeks later I can say Found a new use for [[Raspberry Pi]]..., etc.

Now when I go to the Raspberry Pi page, it shows me a list of times I've linked to the page and the context.

I use this all the time with Logseq, but I find Logseq pretty unpolished, infrequently updated, etc., so I'm always on the lookout for something nicer.

[-] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 0 points 7 months ago

I currently use Silverbullet.MD, which is cool, but a bit too much for my needs.

Can you tell me the pros of using jotty instead?

[-] fccview@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Never used it, i'll I can say is that they have a .MD domain which is stupidly hard to obtain and the pwa syncs with the server when you go online, these two things alone make me say "stick with it" hahahah what little marketing brain I have huh? 🤣 Jokes aside, I think the UI does make a difference, looking at their site, mobile navigation isn't great and overall everything feels a bit dated, won't be able to give you a full comparison without first running it locally myself tho, so I'll try tomorrow and let you know :)

[-] Wawe@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

Wow this looks amazing! One of the best looking note taking apps. I think my only problem is that I like that I have offline access to my notes and I think this is only webbased? I didn't read the details in dept but can you sync notes with other note taking apps?

[-] fccview@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

Yeah this is one of the most requested features so far, I'll need to add offline caching eventually so the PWA can still work offline. At the moment it does work if you only have it connected internally, but in the moment it can't communicate to your server it'll go down, yes.

[-] Wawe@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

Nice to hear that it is worked on! I guess since it has working API someone could technically create own desktop app for it :D Encryption is probably not early priority I assume since it is supposed to be lightweight?

My comparison for this app is Trillium notes. In jotty the UI looks better and kanban support is one of the features that I missed in Trillium notes!

[-] fccview@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Happy to say as of today encryption is present in Jotty ♥️

[-] Wawe@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Wow, that's great to hear!

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