Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

I'm working on Minders [1], a journaling/notes app. I've been using it for a little over a year for daily journaling and keeping track of interesting links or ideas. It works like a Twitter feed of just your thoughts.

It's been fun to work on as I can throw in whatever neat ideas I want since I'm not trying to fit it into a neat category. For instance, I was experimenting with a multi-column browsing experience after I saw a post here [2] for inspiration. The UI could work like TweetDeck but for your notes. Not 100% sure yet if it works, but I'll be doing more prototyping.

Right now I'm revamping the sync system and other runtime parts as I'm realizing that once you start amassing lots of posts, it gets bogged down a bit. I probably could've architected some of it a bit better at the start, but I tend to try to release stuff as early as I can to force myself to ship and to see what people think.

1. https://minders.ussherpress.com/ 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41263203

This is great; how does this compare to Day One? I've been using Day One for multiple years (1000 day streak) and was wondering if I should stick with this. It does what I want but it seems like it's lacking in product development post acquisition compared to other offerings.

Thanks for the interest. It's definitely not at the level of polish as Day One yet. I used to use Day One years ago when it was still a one-time purchase app, but even back then it had nice things like recording your location and local weather conditions. I'd love to add simple niceties like that eventually.

I'm trying to position my app less like a traditional journal and more of a "jot down quick thoughts" place, hence the social media-like interface. But I also want to add more zettelkasten-like features as well, so it's kind of a shoebox app for whatever you want to keep track of for later.