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I'm building fuzzynote: a super fast, collaborative to-do app with a difference

Hi IHs πŸ‘‹

Over the last year, I've given many thousands of hours (and part of my soul 🏳️) to building fuzzynote: a local-first, CRDT-backed, browser-based, collaborative note-taking app.

demo

To summarise what it is:

  • Single list. Think of it as an "inbox for your life"
  • Powerful search, to generate dynamic views of your data
  • Collaborate per line/item, rather than on entire documents. Couple with the search mechanism for easy and focused collaboration
  • Work offline, sync later
  • Local first, paving the way for full future E2E encryption
  • There's a terminal app too, which works seamlessly with the browser!

I'm delighted (and a little shocked) to say that the project has just reached MVP and the app is open for early adopters πŸŽ‰. It's in it's early stages and therefore is quite basic and a little rough around the edges (e.g. mobile support is basic) but I'm working hard and things are moving very fast.

I would be super appreciative of any feedback, suggestions, criticisms or otherwise, and look forward to speaking to you all!

Also, the core of the project is open source, so you can see how it all works ✍️

on April 1, 2022
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    Congrats on shipping!! πŸ™
    Been using Workflowy for a while now so going to give this one a go. Particularly like that’s both web and cli/terminal based. Tech looks nice too πŸ‘Œ

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      Thank you! Workflowy is an amazing tool, used it myself in the past!

      Any fuzzynote feedback very much welcome πŸ™Œ

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        This looks cool.

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    This is super legit! I'm going to have to give this a try.

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      Thank you! Appreciate you trying it out. If any improvements jump out at you, let me know!

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    Are you finding that the open source aspect helps to market the tool?

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      I'd say it's probably too early to say for certain, but I would imagine it's helped to drum up a decent amount of the interest I've seen so far (e.g. I had a good response when I first posted the project early last year on Hacker News).

      There have been some interesting discussions with a few people asking about the technical implementation, given it uses fairly novel techniques ("local-first"/CRDTs etc). I didn't get users actively trying it until another post on Hacker News yesterday morning, so there might be something to that πŸ€”. It's early days, though, so only time will tell!