Thank you to everyone who follows VOID and supports the project. I want to share some important news: VOID needs your help, and that’s why we’ve launched a survey to better understand which features and approaches you really need.

For those hearing about it for the first time: VOID is an open-source second-brain app. In short, it’s an “extension” for your brain - a place to store ideas, notes, research, tasks, and projects. VOID combines the flexibility of Obsidian with the databases of Notion, but it is being built as a fully local, fast, and extensible solution.

The survey will help us understand which tools you currently use and why you like them, what frustrates you most about them, which features like sync, plugins, collaboration, or global Vim navigation would actually be useful, and what you’ve always felt was missing in other apps.

The form is anonymous and takes only a few minutes: https://tally.so/r/3qyW9g

Your answers will help us shape VOID so it becomes as convenient and powerful as possible for you. This is a project for the community, built by a small community - and it’s you who decide what it will become.

Thank you for your support and your help! GitHub: https://github.com/WTWB-none/void

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[–] Turtle@aussie.zone 36 points 3 months ago (4 children)

My feedback: pick a different name, I thought this was void linux related.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Or at least call it "void notes".

But really don't, because a void is where things are lost.

[–] PandaInSpace@kbin.earth 3 points 3 months ago

There's already another app called void notes

[–] BlueSquid0741 6 points 3 months ago

Absolutely this. Clicked on it because I thought it was Void Linux, lost interest immediately because it was confusingly not that.

[–] Transhumanist@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

I’ll think about it

[–] Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

BrainVOID

[–] paaviloinen@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't mean to be negative, but the name is generic and second brain as a term is not really descriptive at all. In fact I hope that second brain as a term never really catches on. Why that name though?

[–] Transhumanist@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I chose the name VOID because it’s short, memorable, and also works as an acronym — Versatile Open-source Infrastructure for Documentation. Beyond that, I like the idea of a “void” as an empty space you can fill with your own structure, knowledge, and workflow — kind of like a blank canvas. Also I took a bit of inspiration in lovecraft’s books

[–] paaviloinen@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

As far as reasoning goes, ten points. It doesn't help with the fact that it's still pretty generic and frequent word/name both alone and as a part of a compositum (see: https://corpora.uni-leipzig.de/en/res?corpusId=eng_news_2024&word=void ) though.

[–] atmorous@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Awesome project!!

Please add your app to https://alternativeto.net/ and Zettelkasten as a feature in future

Also, these is an open source AI coding app called Void too just so you know

[–] rozodru@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

I would consider changing the name. I, like others, thought you were referring to and representing the Void Linux distro.