A simple personal notes app.
- focus on instant writing private notes, threads and long form
- that then can be published publicly if wished
- that easily lets me embed highlights, notes, other stuff,...
- with DVMs for speech-to-text, image gen, etc...
Just because I need inspiration for this myself 😉.
Questions:
1. Web app? (would have to be for long form, or desktop)
2. Why private notes? Why a nostr app for this instead of say Obsidian or Notion? b/c of highlighting need?
I have yet to see a single DVM that lets me do anything other than generate images. Do these even exist? There's a DM bot, but it's kind of meh.
Hey I see Why private notes? I have an idea there ... and also working on it. Lets say the client prompts you with "what are your goals this week or year" and you can reply and set yourself these goals but can choose if you want to make it public or not. but anytime in the future if you did that goal for example you can make the goal public and reference to it....
I am general focusing my app on "workflows" to have a bunch....
(ahh, by the way, I currently have the potion to only see the feed of people you put in lists that filters out the noise of the following feed → that means I can have an imported people list or Meme list with the right people in it and boom!!)
Follow list is a feature in Lume as well, I like the idea but it doesn’t aid in discovery - which is what we really need now.
For a private note, why not just write it locally? Why does it need to be a nostr note?
"but can choose if you want to make it public or not" 👉 That's why.
I want to selectively reveal my notes within nostr. All the way from me, my family, my reading groups, my supporters to my followers. I don't want to have to copy/API call between Obsidian, Notion, Apple Notes, Readwise, etc and pay all of them to store the same notes.
Good question:
- Because of DVM integration mainly. Suuuuper bullish on the craziness that will come out of that. (Scheduled posts, Notary time stamps already go beyond the typical ChatGPT/DALL-E use cases)
- Because I see them as Drafts for some kind of less private use anyway
- Because there's a whole spectrum of (private collabs, notes with PR's, community notes, notes that only your supporters can see, ...) that Nostr enables and that goes beyond Notion/Skiff.
- Because I want to seamlessly embed Nostr events
- And because I'm going to want all these things in my private relay for my AI assistant to go through real soon 😜
So, a simple nostr notes writing app with collab/pubication features seems like a good start.
Interesting. I am challenging your points strictly as an exercise to play the devil's advocate here. I feel we need a lot more of this in the nostr community so we don't waste building things that are not all that interesting. That's not to say that your idea is not interesting, it's just not connecting in my head and I don't see the same vision / potential that you might be seeing. Some more probing around to help me understand it:
1. Isn't there shipyard? Could this just have the draft feature added and DVM integrated?
2. Nostr browser nostr:npub1cmmswlckn82se7f2jeftl6ll4szlc6zzh8hrjyyfm9vm3t2afr7svqlr6f is building has private notes, do you imagine someting like that?
3. I don't understand what you mean by private collabs or notes with PRs - sounds like a different client entirely. I thought someone was working on a github alternative?
4. I think Habla already supports nostr event embedding? It even has drafts. Do you see the need for DVMs as critical for this app?
5. What would the ideal use case be here? To publish long form? Who would use this - casual or professional? What do they do?
Sorry if this is a lot just in regards to design ideas haha. Just really curious to poke around this idea.
Please do, I love it! Literally just asked for more devils.
1. Shipyard with Drafts is exactly what makes me dream of this. But the schedule feature should not be the focus of the app, just something any DVM you want can provide.
2. Yes, but with a writing-first focus and with short, thread and long form. Threads are super useful for personal note taking as well imo.
3. It probably will be different client. Just an argument for why collab notes will come to Nostr anyway.
4. I want seamless embedding: Add Highlights = Displaying a list of my highlights, for example
5. Mostly casual use for users who want to take notes about sth for later use/publication. Can be short/thread/long depending on type of note.
