I built a note-taking app because the one I wanted didn't exist. Clean UI, local .md files, no cloud, no account.

Built with Rust + Tauri 2.0 + SvelteKit. Full-text search powered by Tantivy. Graph view, AI writing tools (bring your own key), Obsidian import, version history.

Available for Linux (AppImage, APT, AUR), Windows, and macOS. Source: https://codeberg.org/ArkHost/HelixNotes

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[–] Masterkraft0r@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you have to use a third party app to sync, it's not local-first, it's just local.

[–] ArkHost@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Local-first means your data lives on your device as the source of truth, not on someone else's server. How you choose to sync it - if at all, is up to you. That's the point.

[–] Masterkraft0r@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

nope... that's just local.

in that regard every text editor or any software that just CRUDs files locally would be local-first and the term would be meaningless

local-first means that it does not need internet-access to work and use the app and synchronization comes later, when there's time and internet access. please read up on this.

https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/

these are the guys who coined the term

edit: i originally wrote "local-first means that it does need internet-access to work and use the app...", which is bullshit and also doesn't make sense in the context. i added the "not" so it is clear.

[–] ArkHost@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

You might be right. I will re-think this :)