Piece
Winds
Piece | Winds | |
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1 | 5 | |
93 | 8,485 | |
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0.0 | 6.3 | |
over 2 years ago | over 2 years ago | |
JavaScript | JavaScript | |
- | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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Piece
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Show HN: Piece – Floating note-taking app for your temporary thoughts
Some backstory of Piece in case you are interested:
This was initially a rewrite of one of my side projects during college years ago. It was originally implemented with Electron (https://github.com/PolarisChen/Piece), resulting a more than 100M size for such a tiny app. At that time, Electron just came out, and I thought the best way to get to learn something is by making something with it, which I still find legit. Anyway, the code haven't been touched for a long time, even though I used the app personally every day.
Months ago, I finally got some free time and decided to review the app, and concluded easily to rewrite it with Swift. There were some obstacles during the rewrite (https://twitter.com/polchen_/status/1433704888366604292), but eventually I made it. I tweeted about some comparison in terms of UI/UX, app size, memory usage (https://twitter.com/polchen_/status/1429224010852626440).
But I wanna make it more than just a rewrite, so I added some features that I personally needed, and just posted it on Mac App Store as a freemium app.
You might notice I mentioned "personally" several times. It's true. I'm not quite confident whether others would have the same need. Personally (again), I found Piece really useful in my daily life/work, as I can quickly bring it up with a global shortcut and write down anything in my mind, ideas, to-dos, random thoughts, etc; or use it as a outline prompter when I write, present or talk, since it's always floating-on-top, and I can quickly press the same shortcut to hide it when I don't need it anymore. It's a note-taking app, but don't get me wrong, it's not to compete with those branding note-taking apps like Notion. It's just a tiny app. I think what Piece to other formal note-taking apps is more like what working memory to long-term memory.
There are some other features like paste-to-app, copy-to-piece, clean reminder, additional themes and highlight syntax. But I would leave for those who are interested to experience them with the app.
I have a lot of ideas for future development. I even think about making an iOS version. But for now, I think I just wanna verify it and see if there are users like me. Thanks for reading the story and using the app :-D
Winds
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Winds or Windows?
I was looking for direct download link of winds(an open source RSS reader application, now archived, link), upon "Googling" the same, encountered this. In addition to this, the search results were hilarious.
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What happened with Winds RSS?
So, I was looking for cool and open source/free RSS readers and found Winds, but I noticed that the GitHub repo said "This repository is no longer maintained; No further Issues or Pull Requests will be considered or approved" and now is completely archived.
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How to keep developer documentation up to date in a CI/CD world
Source: add Note API
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Turn to RSS Feeds to Regain Control of the World Wide Web
Open source RSS reader aiming to work well for regular users: https://github.com/GetStream/winds
Could definitely use some more contributors
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Concept for feed reader that can also pull in sites that don't have an RSS feed
I would suggest looking around github.com at programs such as https://github.com/GetStream/Winds
What are some alternatives?
Lepton - 💻 Democratizing Snippet Management (macOS/Win/Linux)
FreshRSS - A free, self-hostable news aggregator…
Miniflux - Minimalist and opinionated feed reader
Feedbin - A nice place to read on the web.
RSS Fulltext Proxy - Get full-text content for any RSS-feed.
CommaFeed - Google Reader inspired self-hosted RSS reader.
ttrss-reader - Tiny Tiny RSS Reader
Full-Text RSS
Feedpushr - A simple feed aggregator daemon with sugar on top.
RSS-Bridge - The RSS feed for websites missing it
gritttt-rss - Implements 'cancelled' sharing-features of Google Reader for the excellent open-source RSS-Reader TinyTiny-RSS: share any page on the web via a bookmarklet and show your shared items in a widget on any website you want. Also allow to import shared&starred articles from Google Reader.
NewsBlur - NewsBlur is a personal news reader that brings people together to talk about the world. A new sound of an old instrument.