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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I have one suggestion so far. Consider moving to Codeberg. Github has become a very unsafe place to keep FOSS projects.
I would think about that, maybe I will backup everything on codeberg
Thanks for sharing! I’ll give it a try
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.
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).
Good luck with the project! I hope it becomes everything you want it to be, in time!
thank you, these words mean a lot to me
So basically, a markdown editor?
Awesome! I want more and better apps in this space. I personally don’t trust myself not to lose my phone, so I want to manually sync files to some trusted place, or preferably, have webdav/nextcloud for syncing the way some notes apps have it. It’s your project, so do what suits you, but that’s something that would push it to the top for me.
this looks cool!
no hidden cloud
Shots fired at Notesnook.
Why is this better than zim?
I thought Zim was just an archival format?
Nope. But some do use it for mediawiki dumps. Never understood that, really
I didn’t even heard about zim before
It’s great! Don’t reinvent the wheel
Why not just contribute PRs to an existing project?
There’s a lot of reasons to make your own project even if something similar exists. Differing codebase, feature roadmap, UX/UI direction, contributor politics, or even because they want to make something from scratch to add to their portfolio.
More options are better for everyone.
Sure, but OP didn’t even know this other project existed
I checked Zim, and while it can definitely be useful, personally I didn’t really enjoy its UI.
Russian text in the video makes me very suspicious…
It is open source. If suspicious, wait for reviews or check it out yourself
szmer.info, isn’t this a polish anarchist istance?
Least racist liberal
Yeah, I’m from Russia. Is this a problem?
It’s a problem for racists, yes.
I come extremely hard to trust a russian, especially taking into account my personal life experience and circumstances. Ultimately, I wish more people were more careful, especially when it comes to a system to store sensitive information. The basis of trust has been breached by whole nation, so it has to be earned by every single member of that nation.
At the same time, I cannot see even a word about the retaliation for the crimes the nation continues to commit each day: only requests “please finance me”, using the western platforms and western infrastructure — which seem to be quite convenient, isn’t it? In that circumstances, I can see such project to have some risk, even for simply self-hosting, because careful review of projects can be hard even for projects with lots of eyes, and there is already a track record for injections being planted in FLOSS projects1.
This has to be mentioned: my issue is not with you personally. You might be a nice person, yet to me you are an anonymous trying to hide his origin, and failing at it.
The basis of trust has been breached by whole nation, so it has to be earned by every single member of that nation.
- WTF is this collective punishment nonsense?
- I hope you rather quickly uninstall almost all popular FOSS software from your devices, because almost all of it contains sizeable contributions from russian citizens and I don’t think you’ve individually verified their intentions
By the state, not by the nation.
What I can see clearly is that nation overall supports the warfare, and the annexation of neighbouring country — either silently, or loudly. This sentiment was there for even pre-full-scale invastion time period, even in anti-putinists circles (the “Crimea is not a sandwich” statement supporting that1).
There is an extreme minority that is against war, though they are against war in principle, and make no action to support the warfare to any side.
With this logic, any country could be reduced to its leader. The reality is less manichean.
There’s almost no civil society of any kind left in Russia, so it’s impossible to say if a nation overall supports or opposes the warfare. People with an active pro-war or anti-war stance are minorities, somewhere in the 10-20% range, and neither are allowed to speak up (interestingly, quite a lot of pro-war social media influencers are in prison right now for daring to speak up against corruption in the army or similar). The vast majority of people are just going about their days. Does that technically help with the war? Yes, I guess, it drives the economy, people pay taxes etc, but then the same can be said about an average american, brit or german right now - I don’t see them blowing up munitions factories (that directly supply the ongoing genocide).
Understood. You could use p2p sync without our/selfhosted server. I didn’t interested in anyone’s data. That’s exactly why I decided to fully open the source code of the app for all who interested. And I’m not trying to hyde my nationality, I just want to all who looks at my project/talks to me feel comfortable without need to translate every my message
@Transhumanist Depends. Do you stand with Ukraine? https://github.com/vshymanskyy/StandWithUkraine/
I prefer to stay apolitical. VOID is an open-source project meant for everyone.
@Transhumanist Funny how all silent supporters of genocide “prefer to stay apolitical”. So yes, this is a problem.
You know, I don’t necessarily disagree with you, but it’s funny how you don’t see these reactions to American open-source projects, despite the US government’s explicit support for the genocide in Gaza. Why do you think that is?
I don’t think that’s the case.
In what regard? Are you saying you do see American FOSS projects held to the same standard as Russian (and Chinese) ones?
@princessnorah I see plenty Americans daily loudly voicing their support for Gaza and their disgust about the regime which makes this genocide. But russians? Never. They “prefer to stay apolitical” like this fucker here. Again - think about what putin wants. He is jailing people for holding a plain white paper - because silence is what he wants, and fucking “ordinary russians” and their apologists are happily delivering. SAY SOMETHING! That’s the whole poit.
I don’t think there’s a law in the US that criminalizes pacifism [yet] (with actual prison time as punishment)
It’s easy to blame russians for not resisting the war when you don’t have the prospect of spending 7 years in a russian prison
There is a complex sociopolitical history as to why it’s likely Russians aren’t as vocal about these sorts of things. So no, I don’t think it’s as simple as calling out any Russian that does anything ever, and deciding to give every USian the benefit of the doubt.
As well, I’d like to point out that being vocal on the internet is not the same as making a material difference in the real world.
The genocide perpetrated by Israel and the West? Is that the genocide you’re silent about?
@3abas I’m definitely not silent about that, are you? Fuck your whataboutism. Another typical russian thing.
Please don’t force people to take a stand because 1. he’s Russian and what he say may have repercussions for him, 2. this is not the place for discourse like this; and even if it was, I think it’s important to prioritize persuasion rather than accusation, and 3. He’s just trying to share something he’s enthusiastic about. Just let the guy share and maybe redirect the anger to more vocal supporters
I get that some people may see it differently. Still, my goal here is simply to share a tool I’m building.
What’s wrong with just notes in markdown in vim or helix?
Nice rendering of headings, bullet points, checkboxes, code blocks, images and so on. I know there is something available for vim if you are using a terminal emulator that supports displaying images, but as far as I know besides a language server for markdown helix can’t do that. If there is something I’d like to try it
using images on the terminal is cursed, and helix does nicely render markdown with just the grammars, no lsp.
What I mean is for Headings to appear in a bigger size and so on, basically the difference between obsidian source and view mode. Also Not rendering Latex is a dealbreaker as well
Amazing apps, but not for my use cases
I don’t see what the use case for VOID is.
It seems like there is more to it, but even if it was just open source Obsidian, that’s a valid enough reason to exist in my mind.
Yeah well I would like for it to have a list of features explaining what it does…
Url viiiiiideo is broken
fixed it. I didn’t add a preview 🙃
Strange, on my pc it works perfectly, while on mobile it not working. I’ll check it
i think it works for you bc u are authenticated
But it doesn’t work on my mobile GitHub app too, however on pc it looks fine
What’s the difference compared to Trilium?
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?
Thanks, i’ll rework README in the near future.
Yeah, the readme says stuff that don’t mean that much. Sure, all FOSS and no cloud but WHAT DOES IT DO??
I saw you picked SurrealDB, what has been your experience with that so far?
I really like SurrealDB. It has amazing compatibility with rust + tauri and can be used in file mode with rocksDB. For my usecase it fits the best. I love static types)
