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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
#32This is a very interesting idea for a project.
At some point I was thinking about building something similar, but more in a wiki-style format where ideas could gradually accumulate and build up layer by layer. Unfortunately I never got around to it because of work and other projects.
Really nice to see someone exploring this space - I’m curious how the concept evolves over time.
Re: Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first
#33Love 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’…
Thanks so much!
Antinote looks awesome! Love how minimalist it is and how they demo all the features on the landing page. I’m going to look into making ichinichi into a desktop app.
Re: Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first
#34For this purpose I wrote an app called Five Years Back: I can write one entry daily, but I can see what I wrote on this day for the past 5 years. My writing streak is… 1399 days as of today. Only me is using the app. Good job and good luck!
Wow, that’s commitment right here. I only started journaling (dogfooding ichinichi) from 1st January this year. It’s nice to see an unbroken streak. Gonna check out Five Years Later!
Re: Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first
#35Nice idea. Well done on the implementation. One tiny nitpick - layout is uncomfortable. More than 1/4th of the screen width is taken by the calendar widget (and even more when there's multiple windows open side-by-side), and the editor widget/area is off-center. Also, showing the weather in the note itself is a cool idea. It pairs well with the journal nature of the app. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the feedback!
I can see how the month widget can be not useful in the editor view. I’ll add an option to show only the editor and to remember that choice.
Re: Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first
#36Love the app. Wondering if it shouldn't be a rolling 12 month calendar perhaps instead of Jan-Dec. The reason being that once you hit January after writing daily notes for a year, you won't see your existing streak of dots of the previous 12 months. Just a thought.
Ah, good point. I didn’t think about that. Good solution to make it rolling! I’ll look into it closer to the end of the year to self-test how both feel.
Re: Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first
#37Very 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.
I tried ProseMirror and Tiptap but typing in both felt slower than a vanilla contenteditable. Maybe it’s just a placebo effect. Also I’m trying out various experimental enhancements like if you type “+meditation” and press Enter, it will create a labeled section for you. Perhaps I should try CodeMirror as elxr suggested.
Re: Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first
#38That divider with a time stamp on the right is very cute! I am looking for, in a sense, the opposite of this app. I need an AI-powered IDE-like editor for markdown files. I keep a ton of research notes in markdown and when it comes to writing reports for admins and such, I need something to help me make sense of them, integrate them, reformat, do a "semantic refactoring" across files, diffs. etc. I saw people use Obs…
> need something to help me make sense of them, integrate them, reformat, do a "semantic refactoring" across files, diffs. etc
I'm building this exact thing. Heavily inspired by obsidian (and the obsidian workflow where you launch claude code in your vault), but with a leaner UX, and a web-first app. Not launched yet, but I'll let you know when I do.
Re: Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first
#39How does the E2E work in terms of user flow? I assume a you need a password? Do you need to enter the password every time you open this?
You can start using it right away without a password (it will generate a random one and use it only once to encrypt a DEK key). Once you create an account with a password, it re-encrypts your DEK and uploads it to Supabase (encrypted).
Later on you only need to enter your password again if you sign out and want to sync with other devices.
Re: Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first
#40Append only logs >>> in-place writing and rewriting. I mean, in real life, we call this a "diary" LOL. But even the fact that a mere "diary" doesn't have the same prestiege as say, all other forms of communication, I feel like just a tiny part of it was because it was generally hard throughout human history for the majority of people to write. Like most people were not knowledge workers, typing has definitely made it…
Thanks for this larger-scale observation!
I personally always feel a bit like a Lovecraft character writing those entries. :)