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Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first

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Re: Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first

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Post by thatgurjot »

Love it! The name, the design, the concept, the open source codebase, everything! It’s less like a note taking app and more like a diary writing app. I think that’s very neat and has its own niche.

Love the local-first, browser-based nature of it. If you ever consider making a native app for it, consider looking at antinote (https://antinote.io/). Been using it for over a year. It’s the only notes app that I haven’t uninstalled or forgotten about. I think the simplicity of it is what draws me to it. I feel it aligns with your philosophy for this app!

Thanks for sharing Ichinichi with the world!

Re: Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first

#12

Post by NewsaHackO »

thatgurjot wrote: post #11

Love it! The name, the design, the concept, the open source codebase, everything! It’s less like a note taking app and more like a diary writing app. I think that’s very neat and has its own niche. Love the local-first, browser-based nature of it. If you ever consider making a native app for it, consider looking at antinote ( https://antinote.io/ ). Been using it for over a year. It’s the only notes app that I haven’…

If you like the open-source codebase, then why are you peddling your closed-source paid platform?

Re: Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first

#13

Post by elxr »

kaz-inc wrote: post #9

I really like the idea, and I've actually built something similar. Please format the writing in the post sound less gpt-esque; I believe in the tool you're making and I believe it will improve marketing to people that share my aversion to that writing style.

The entire docs is gpt/claude-esque. It's gonna take a significant amount of work rewriting it all, all for a free tool.

I think it fits fine with the type of app this is. Sure some people might be slightly put off, and there is a bit of fluff sprinkled in everywhere, but I think it's fine.

Re: Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first

#14

Post by elxr »

NewsaHackO wrote: post #12
thatgurjot wrote: post #11

Love it! The name, the design, the concept, the open source codebase, everything! It’s less like a note taking app and more like a diary writing app. I think that’s very neat and has its own niche. Love the local-first, browser-based nature of it. If you ever consider making a native app for it, consider looking at antinote ( https://antinote.io/ ). Been using it for over a year. It’s the only notes app that I haven’…

If you like the open-source codebase, then why are you peddling your closed-source paid platform?

You're allowed to like both. Antinote is very unique, and devs should be allowed to charge for their work if it's a quality app with a really polished UX.

Also, its not theirs.

Re: Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first

#15

Post by elxr »

thomasfrank09 wrote: post #10

Very cool! I'm curious as to why you removed ProseMirror after trying it out. I've been building my own writing app for a different purpose over the last month and have been pretty happy with PM, but I'd be curious to know what you're using instead.

As someone else building a notes app, I went with CodeMirror because I enjoy the feature-set of the obsidian editor (which is CodeMirror), and I'm trying to emulate the features on that that I use the most, in addition to some more "experimental" features I'm currently playing with.

Personally, I really don't enjoy WYSIWIG editors when writing notes. It's just unnecessarily different compared to what I'm used to. Though I can see non-devs enjoying it more.

Re: Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first

#16

Post by redgridtactical »

katspaugh wrote: post #4
redgridtactical wrote: post #3

The read-only past is a really smart design choice. I build local-first apps and it's always tempting to add edit-everything flexibility, but constraints like this are what keep a tool focused and actually useful. How does the Supabase sync work with the E2E encryption? Client-side encrypt before anything leaves the browser?

Thanks! Exactly, client encrypts before syncing. Decryption keys are wrapped/encrypted with your password. If you change the password, only the decryption keys are re-encrypted, not your notes.

Smart approach with the key wrapping. Re-encrypting every note on a password change would be brutal at scale. Do you have a recovery path if someone forgets their password, or is it truly zero-knowledge where the data is just gone?

Re: Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first

#20

Post by throwaway81523 »

stavros wrote: post #8
katspaugh wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good idea, I can do that!

If you want to avoid too much choice, but still want the "the past is immutable" feel, you can prevent editing after noon next day or similar.

I just use a .org file, with git to retain old versions if I edit something that might be of later relevance.
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