literal VS grocy-android

Literal (version 1.1.31-foss): Capture annotations, sources, and knowledge from text that you read.

I've recently come across Literal which makes me share notes or annotations which I want to save for later. It has tag functions too. Maybe this can help.

There's been some good writing on the general failure of "Hypertext books" (e.g. the first couple of paragraphs here [0]). I personally think this stems from some of the reasons that underlie some of those that you outline - books published on the web simultaneously try to be skeuomorphic in retaining the physical book metaphor (organized linearly, mostly static and plain text, etc), while still losing some of the real-world effects of the physical medium (being able to intuitively understand progress, markup, etc). The way that we publish and read text actually hasn't changed much, even though the target medium has of course changed dramatically, and as a result you end up with arguably the worst of both worlds. E-readers try to side step the problem by extending the book metaphor even further, but text on the web doesn't have that privilege.

I'm working on a product, Literal [1], that aims to solve some of your specific problems, specifically providing for a way to annotate and add notes to web content and enabling some degree of source management. My ambition is to move on to solve some of the other problems you raise as well. If you have an Android device and are interested in trying it out, I'd love to connect!

[0] https://subpixel.space/entries/open-transclude/

[1] https://literal.io/

Along these lines, I'm building an annotation management system, Literal, that fulfills some of your asks, specifically around collecting and annotating articles. It also does source management, and has a tagging system that would let you set up "to read" and "have read" lists. It doesn't yet do audio annotation but that's definitely on my list of things to add. It's Android only at the moment but I'd love to connect with you (or anyone else) that is interested in trying it out.

Thanks! I created an issue to track your idea of making tags more visually distinctive. The app right now is very weighted towards information capture, and I'm actively working on improving organization functionality so I think this idea goes right in with that theme.

Open source (github) and natively implements the W3C Web Annotation Data Model, meaning your data is safe and portable.

Grocy: Self-hosted Grocery Management (version 3.4.2): ERP beyond your fridge, now on your phone – An awesome companion app for grocy

Not using them personally, but I guess Barcode Buddy and Grocy Android both do exactly that (and more).

I know there is Grocy but it requires a self hosted instance... I just want a normal heading and list app (reminder is bonus), Currently i am using Lists it does all except it no longer actively developed and doesn't have Material You theme...

Seems like there wasn't a release/tag made for 3.0, but the android build manifest was updated with a new version. That is what's being checked by fdroid in case of the grocy app. There seems to be a changelog (raw), but I'm not sure it's complete, since no official release was being made. Since nightlys seem to exist now, maybe fdroid needs to adjust their auto-update mode, but that's just my observation.

Grocy: Self-hosted Groceries Management (version 3.0.0): ERP beyond your fridge, now on your phone – An awesome companion app for Grocy

Even with https://github.com/patzly/grocy-android?

I wanted to run grocy on my phone (android) without running my own server and being able to use it completely offline. The devs of the android-app mentioned that implementing offline transactions is a lot of work and therefore, understandably, not a priority and in this issue someone advised to use termux to set up grocy locally, so I made the attempt to run grocy through termux. Eventually I succeeded but termux has some peculiarities in comparison to a proper linux terminal, so the Installation guide was only a rough guideline.

If you're using an older version of app there was an issue when scanning grocycode with an external scanner or manually entering grocycode (https://github.com/patzly/grocy-android/issues/472) that was fixed in version 2.1.0.

Just stumbled upon the Android app[1] while randomly browsing F-Droid and thought I'd share the project as a whole. Kind of a bummer that the Android app doesn't support having a local database, but it's a very cool concept regardless.

[1]: https://patrick.zedler.xyz/grocy/