Re:Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge man...
by withinboredom on Thursday December 26, 2024 @03:15PM
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If you want some windows-forms-esq app development, I highly recommend checking out Flutter Flow. It isn’t exactly cheap, but I’ve used it for some basic personal apps.
Re:Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge man...
by packetlost on Thursday December 26, 2024 @03:24PM
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I kinda doubt FlutterFlow would meet my needs, it looks like it's primarily build on web technologies which is a nonstarter for this.
Re:Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge man...
by vopi on Thursday December 26, 2024 @03:40PM
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As far as I know, it's the opposite (using Skia to render). Flutter for the web is a second-class citizen, whereas for mobile apps, it's quite productive.
Re:Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge man...
by withinboredom on Thursday December 26, 2024 @04:53PM
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FlutterFlow is just the UI to build Flutter apps, which yes, is built on web-tech. However, Flutter runs natively on mobile devices.
Re:Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge man...
by sunshine-o on Thursday December 26, 2024 @08:22PM
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> but I wish there was some way to slap a basic UI on top of a CLI application for mobile
I have only relied on fzf so far but have played with the various components of the Termux:API [0] for basic UIs, and it works well.
There is also Termux:GUI [1] with Bash bindings which allows to build more advanced UIs.
Re:Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge man...
by packetlost on Thursday December 26, 2024 @08:44PM
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I'll have to look at Termux GUI again. I've tried poking around with Tasker and it's Termux plugin but it seems so confusing and poorly documented that I'd rather just write a native app at that point lol
It has worked great for me! That being said, sync and mobile usage is still a bit of a sore spot with it. It works beautifully with Termux, but I wish there was some way to slap a basic UI on top of a CLI application for mobile. Tk/Tcl is the closest but there's only options on Android (I'm mostly an iOS user) and even then it's not really ideal. For sync, I at least have a reasonable plan: IMAP4 or git-based sync. The roadmap and tasks for the project are tracked in-repo with itself, so it definitely works.