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VOID — my FOSS second-brain app (lemmy.ml)

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Hey folks! I’m completely new to Lemmy and still figuring out how everything works around here... But I’d love to share a project I’ve been building.

It's called VOID (Versatile Open-source Infrastructure for Developers) - an open-source, local-first second-brain (note taking app but more powerful) application that combines the flexibility of Obsidian with the powerful organization of Notion.

Unlike many other tools, VOID is not just another note-taking app. It’s built with the idea of being a true second brain that you fully control. No vendor lock-in, no hidden cloud, no feature walls. Everything is open-source, customizable, and designed to adapt to your workflow instead of forcing you into someone else’s.

I'm currently building it with Rust, Tauri v2 and Vue.js. For certain plugins and configs, it also supports SurrealDB as a database.

check it out on my GitHub

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[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

I have one suggestion so far. Consider moving to Codeberg. Github has become a very unsafe place to keep FOSS projects.

[-] Transhumanist@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

I would think about that, maybe I will backup everything on codeberg

[-] PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de 108 points 5 days ago

Unlike many other tools, VOID is not just another note-taking app.

no offense. but if I got a penny for everytime Ive heard this....

[-] Transhumanist@lemmy.ml 36 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

no offense. but if I got a penny for everytime Ive heard this…

yeah, I know) but I try my best to make this project as perfect and useful as possible

[-] PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 4 days ago

for everyone who walked this path of finding (or making) the perfect note app. there is no general perfect. everybody will find eventually a workflow which works - and evolves.

but I whish you all the best and that you may built an app which inspires many. :)

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[-] dax@feddit.org 20 points 4 days ago

You might want to highlight what differentiates it from Obsidian, except being open source. Just from looking at the page, I don't know what it means to have organization capabilities from Notion?

[-] int32@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 days ago

Yeah, the readme says stuff that don't mean that much. Sure, all FOSS and no cloud but WHAT DOES IT DO??

[-] Transhumanist@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago

Thanks, i’ll rework README in the near future.

[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

no hidden cloud

Shots fired at Notesnook.

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Neat project, shame on the basic premise. Just remember to delete your second brain once in a while, for the health of your first one, and actually use it for something creative once in a while.

[-] Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 days ago

Note taking has it's place, but I agree. Once you go from note taking into crippling habitual hivemind its lost the main point. The time I spent on making my notes look amazing and growing my thought library rather than working on executing my actual ideas was getting insane.

I've seen some of the Obsidian maxi's graphs in tutorial videos. There are people that have spent literal weeks of their precious time on these massive dot-to-line hoards. It really becomes literal e-hoarding. Like counseling levels of bad habit. Then they hold these humongous, continent-sized graphs up like a trophy. Mine's bigger than yours. Whip it out and prove it.

Now I only jot ideas I want to remember later if I'm in the middle of something, write down dreams I may forget (or nightmares, as it helps me calm down and analyze them logically), and keep to my diet and shopping lists.

I really don't need more than that. Any reminders or schedules go in my android FOSS calendar (Etar).

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 days ago

Looking good!

Slightly off-topic, but with all the craps that's going on with Github, ever consider having your projects on Codeberg instead?

[-] Transhumanist@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago

can you tell me in short what’s wrong with GitHub? I totally missed it

[-] oscarmeyer82@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

MS bought it and is folding it into their "AI" division

[-] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago

Good luck with the project! I hope it becomes everything you want it to be, in time!

[-] Transhumanist@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

thank you, these words mean a lot to me

[-] vort3@lemmy.ml 33 points 5 days ago

the idea of being a true second brain

It's good that it's built with this idea, but what is the actual implementation of this idea? What features make it «a true second brain» that other «second brain» apps (obsidian and hundred other note taking apps) don't have?

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 27 points 5 days ago

I did a bunch of research into second brain/zettelkasten apps (that is to say, apps that support note taking with note interlinking and rich text) earlier this year, and I couldn't find a single app in the category that's (1) FOSS, (2) stores notes as .md files natively (Logseq will import/export to .md, but it's not native), and (3) is cross-platform in some way (for my purposes, I need it to be on Linux, Android, and Mac OS, or have a usable web app). Even the ones that get close all have some kind of gimmick to them, or are super ugly or slow or otherwise hard to use.

If Void can get those three nailed, and do it in a usable way, it will fill a very particular and exciting niche.

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Please checkout Silverbullet.md.
Native markdown support, folder structure, customizable by css and some script language.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Where were all you awesome people with these great suggestions back in May?!

[-] chemikyle@lemmy.zip 14 points 4 days ago

This is a mandatory comment about Emacs' org mode since .org files are extremely similar in syntax to .md and can be interconverted extremely easily.

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[-] ComradeMiao@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

A new competitor to Obsidian other than Trilium and Logseq would be awesome. I have to ask are you vibe coding? The length of the project and extensive use of emojis in the read me makes me question… I wish you the best. If you get a server container and an iPhone app I would seriously support it.

[-] Transhumanist@lemmy.ml 24 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I tried to make README less boring using emoji) And 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.

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