api-playground VS excalidraw

GitLab team member here.

Maybe you can re-use the script I shared in this comment [0] to query the GitLab REST API to generate an index. I'm a fan of using the API programmatically, and tend to avoid git checkout/grep/etc. inside CI/CD pipelines (works too, everyone is free to choose their way).

Yet again, I love API challenges, so I've created a new script which parses a defined markdown footer for Tags and Due date, and generates an ordered index by due date. I did not know which format you are using, so I made up my own, see the MR description [1] and docs [2].

The script lives in [3] and is a mix of fetching files, parsing content with regex, and generating the index + creating a commit to upload automatically.

A demo overview is shown in [4] with the generated index.md, ordered by due date and linking the files by parsed heading title, file paths, and tags.

Hope it helps, feel free to repurpose, or ping me for questions on the GitLab community forum [5]. My Python code is a little rusty, I am slowly adopting all the 3.x design patterns after many years with 2.x.

I might follow your idea with notes and custom footer parsing. That's a really nifty idea, and helps solve my own chaos :-)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32155848

[1] https://gitlab.com/dnsmichi/api-playground/-/merge_requests/...

[2] https://gitlab.com/dnsmichi/api-playground/-/tree/main/pytho...

[3] https://gitlab.com/dnsmichi/api-playground/-/tree/main/pytho...

[4] https://gitlab.com/dnsmichi/api-playground/-/tree/main/demo/...

[5] https://forum.gitlab.com/u/dnsmichi/summary

ExcaliDraw - https://excalidraw.com/

ExcaliDraw

However, Notion and Obsidian can only help you write documentation. Well, how about some visuals? Let's talk about Excalidraw.

Fun fact: I used GA in Excalidraw, and it's still powering some of the interactions! https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/blob/master/package...

I was happy to find out recently that there is a way to make Mermaid diagrams WYSIWYG / drag and drop editable that the open source https://excalidraw.com has and did I mention it's open source!? With a LLM, you can go full loop back to Mermaid again after a few rounds of manual editing. "What a time to be alive!"

I'm working on a personal project and found myself looking for an alternative to Postman/Insomnia this morning. This made me realize i've been using the same tools for so long for work (mobile development, finance) that this project may be a good time to try out some new things.

Here are a few tools that i've been using lately that I really enjoy:

https://pocketbase.io/ - A dead-simple self-hosted firebase/supabase-like "backend in a box" using golang and sqlite. So far i've been really impressed. I've gone the route of extending the base offering with more go code and am really enjoying the experience.

https://excalidraw.com/ - An open source whiteboarding tool. Slick to use and after learning some keybinds I've gotten pretty fast at throwing together diagrams to explain things to people on my team. The killer piece though is that the filetype is just json, so I can source control my diagrams. Even better, their "export to png" function has a box to embed the json data _into_ the png, allowing me to slap the diagram in places that only accept images (think confluence) and still be able to change the diagram later if needed. 10/10.

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/ - Gitlab's CI/CD toolset is really impressive, and I've gotten really intimate with it's deeper features over the past year. I'd be curious though to hear from someone who's familiar with it vs it's competitors.

Sketch easy and go back to work...

https://excalidraw.com/