Notebook

The gist: build a text editor that keeps track of all of your notes.

A more advanced Journal with a slightly different intention. If a journal is for keeping track of life happenings, then a notebook is for documenting things relating to specific topics—work, personal projects, etc.

Specs

  • Pick a mark-up approach to use (rich text, Markdown, etc.)
  • Add entries
    • Specify a title for a given entry
    • Add body
    • Tags
  • View list of entries
  • View entries with a specific tag
  • Search

Concepts

  • Text editing
  • Data storage
  • Data modeling
  • Search

Extra Credit

  • Attach files to notes
  • Easily link between notes, like a wiki
  • Sync

References

  • Bear for Mac and iOS
  • Simple Note
  • Obsidian

See Also