notesutils VS xit

I should write this stuff up, but I haven't.

I do have some brief notes on the "Notes.app" format here:

https://github.com/dunhamsteve/notesutils/blob/master/notes....

But I didn't discuss my methodology -- Generic decoding of protobuf, building up a schema as you go -- the tricky part there is that a byte array and a substructure look the same, so you have to try to decode it, and if successful, try that schema on the next example.

Here is another fun technique - scanning through a disassembly of an Apple framework looking for assembly patterns that match the protobuf compiler output (this was dependent on which language was targeted by protobuf):

https://gist.github.com/dunhamsteve/224e26a7f56689c33cea4f0f...

So you find the serializer / deserializer code and figure out what the original protbuf spec looked like.

I use the same system but with highlighting/formatting of https://xit.jotaen.net

I even learn how to create a plugin for the IntelliJ IDEA and created one for highlighting this format (love idea hotkeys and workflow).

This is my personal todo app, which I made a while back after the original https://xit.jotaen.net/ post. tuido is written in go, with the bubbletea tui framework.

My daily workflow involves creating YYYY-MM-DD.md and taking notes, many of which are effectively low-level todos that fall below the threshold for more public or involved issue trackers. Problem was that these half-hazard todos weren't tracked at all.

After seeing the [x]it spec, it seemed clear that a little tooling could fix this. I've been reasonably happy with it.

There currently are a bunch of editor plugins and one CLI tool. You find a collection of tools (all third-party) linked from the project website: https://xit.jotaen.net