Nullboard: Kanban board in a single HTML file

Good question.

I try to avoid proprietary software when I can, so if I wanted something like this I’d definitely look for open source options first. I’ll endure a reasonable amount of setup pain as long as the solution is what I’m after to go the open source route over a proprietary app.

For example, your idea seems to sit somewhere between Alfred (which I’ve bought every upgrade/ultimate pack/whatever for) or Raycast, and an LLM augmented search of a NAS / “personal cloud” server. So assuming I wanted it, if there was no neat and self contained open source solution, I’d probably try to cobble something together with Alfred, Ollama, Open WebUI, etc. (all of which I already run) plus some scripts/code first, too.

That said, for a good, feature-full local/self hosted solution that does exactly what I want in the absence of an open source option (or if it’s just much better in significant ways), I’m generally willing pay between $20–$100 per major release (for ex. I pay around that for e.g.: Alfred, the Affinity apps). For this I suppose $30–50 if it was pretty slick and filled an important niche. (I have paid more a handful of times in my life, usually for very specific use cases or if it helps me professionally, but not very recently.)

However, if a nice (or very promising and exciting to me), well maintained open source (GPL/MIT/Apache/BSD type license) solution does [most of] what I want and it’s something I really use (and a smaller project[0]) then I donate $10–30 per month (ex.: Helix, WezTerm). I sometimes do smaller or one-off donations, etc. for stuff I use less but appreciate.

That is, I intentionally pay more for open source I care about, and would humbly suggest considering that option for your project. Though I recognise that sustaining yourself financially that way is more than likely considerably harder, even with my small personal attempt at creating incentives for the world I want to see :)

NB: I do not buy subscription software unless it comes with a genuinely value added service (storing a few MiB on the devs cloud service doesn’t count) or access to data, for instance detailed snow/weather forecasts, market data, an advanced AI model (though my admittedly relatively minimal LLM use is currently >95% local and free/“open source” models).

[0] I don’t give money to the Linux kernel devs, etc. as I don’t think it’s likely to has as much positive impact

> Do you really long for that?

Yes, absoultely. Saving data you don't want saved and overwriting data you want to retain are just as bad as not saving data you want to keep.

Keeping a scratch file to restore from unexpected applications exits (crash, power loss, etc.) is fine but beyond that I expect to be in control of when and where things are saved.

> one has to adapt to the modern times

I expect my computers to adapt to my requirements, not the other way around.

> especially when it makes things better.

Modern rarely equals better.

Would you be so kind to share how you manage to get them to save without further interaction? That would really add usability. Maybe I did take the ctrl+s too literally, but being pedantic was not my intention. Merely hinting at this usability issue. So a solution would be very welcome.

(And I am not the one downvoting you, in fact I couldn't even.)

As an aside: I do find these applications very interesting and am considering to make use of Nullboard myself, but also am weighing it against simply using org mode in Emacs and am looking for any advantage it might offer. Of course the ctrl+s issue plays a role there as well.

Great idea, as usual killed in its infancy by lacking UA UX. We even already have an API to ask the user not to close the web page, because there's unsaved work; but it wouldn't work with "Save as...", because you can't detect that, and the browser won't do it for you, even if it knows you're editing a local file.

Same for all of the pointless cookie banners - they could've been UA prompts instead, putting the user in charge of setting a policy ("always trust example.com", "never trust example.net", "accept example.org for this session", etc). But building such prompts into a browser would've been a nuisance in 1997... So we ended up with that nuisance anyway, just enshrined by shortsighted laws, that target each and every website - rather than the three remaining browser engine vendors.

This is really cool and something I could use and edit. Responsive CSS for mobile and tablet feels needed.