Jottings: The desktop app

That’s what I’m calling it. Jottings. The story so far… Lately, I have been obsessed -- utterly obsessed -- with making a custom note-taking app. I’ve tried everything, and I mean EVERYTHING. I went as far as using VS Code, VIM, Nano even; my meagre attempt at the Quiet Writer. And Python Notes. Obsessed! I think I have a problem! :-) The issue is this: whilst the tools do exist and are plentiful, they all fall short somewhere along the line for me. They have too much or not enough. I have to hack, script, and tweak configs just to get existing tools to resemble something close to what I want. But, nothing is perfect. Hence, the obsession over the tool. I finally came to understand that perhaps others are developing tools for themselves, according to their own particular needs and wants and workflows. My latest adventure was a Python script which was basically Quiet Writer running on a Python server with some niceties on top. That, too, came from IndexedDB Notes. I have a home server,…