cv VS Joplin

I'm working on a new version of my CV (v1: https://cv.git-pull.com)

This time I'm writing it in React, Angular, and Vue (TypeScript across the board). It's in the very early stages, but keep it at https://github.com/tony/cv

While doing it, I've tried to find various ways to share the chart and data code across all 3 versions. The library I found to make it happen with data akita: https://datorama.github.io/akita/

For UX it's not so easy. The truth is, some of the best UI libraries are framework specific. This creates a lot of fragmentation in the frontend community IMO. For instance react has nivo, vicious, and react-vis, but at the end of the day it's svg and canvas underneath the hood. Still though, the efforts are amazing. It makes you wonder what it'd be like if there would be just one agreed upon way to write a widget. (There's web components, custom elements... but those won't even work with typescript out of the box)

In the past few years, that stuff that's been going on with webpack v5's persistent caching, TypeScript (and its tooling), and all 3 of these frameworks getting better is amazing.

Examples of charting software I've tried: https://cv-react-v2.git-pull.com/dev/branch/v2-billboard.js/, https://cv-react-v2.git-pull.com/dev/branch/v2-plotly/, https://cv-react-v2.git-pull.com/dev/branch/v2-carboncharts/

For the first time I've found a UI suite called Carbon: https://www.carbondesignsystem.com/, an IBM thing. I'm most impressed by their chart offering. Even though it's relatively new, they maintain bindings for react, vue and angular.

I've had great success with using Joplin for this, with Syncthing as a sync backend. Works well across OSes; I use it on Linux, macOS, Windows and Android.

https://joplinapp.org/

The tools to manipulate SQL aren't that bad, no.

But rather than having a self explanatory markdown & flat file, now I have to start learning about the schema & making specific tools (in my preferred language) for manipulating Joplin's schema.

Suddenly I'm digging through 20 different technic specs to decode what data is where, how it works, and what I can do to it. Want to edit history? This is the best help you'll get, pray it's adequately technical to expedite you to your purpose: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/dev/readme/dev/spec...

As I began with, I struggle to imagine anything that generates anywhere near as much user agency as flat files and markdown. Having boring common data & systems lets me apply portable skills I already have, rather than having to skill up in some particular product's own ecosystem.

Joplin is a good open source option too, feels more like the original Evernote in terms of UI/UX https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/

Joplin, an open source, extendable, Markdown-based hierarchical note-taking app: https://joplinapp.org/

It lets you choose a synchronization backend, offers applications for every major desktop and mobile OS (also has a terminal version). You can create notebooks and subnotebooks to organize your notes. You can also add tags for better search experience. I created notebooks for specific domains (work-related, home improvement, etc.) and also keep a "temp" for quick notes and W.I.P. snippets.

Its only con that it uses Electron on desktop which causes relatively slow start of the application.

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