web-tutorial VS knotro

https://github.com/soegaard/web-tutorial/blob/master/listit3/control.rkt#L135

Jesse Alama here. If you bought a book from me but are unsatisfied, I'm happy to refund you. If you found my stuff unhelpful, let me know what's missing and I can try to include a discussion of that in the next edition. Just write me offline. Or write to the group, or visit us (or me) in the Racket Slack.

I wrote my stuff to help people get into web development with Racket. I love web devel, and Racket, too. You and I have a lot in common: I found the official docs puzzling, so I worked out my own approach to them and made _Server: Racket_. It should go without saying that that's the origin story of just about every paid book out there on applications of programming language X to domain Y. That's not even a criticism of the Racket docs. Plenty of tools/languages also have good docs, and there are lots of books, too. How many Django books (or even courses) are out there?

There are also some great web programming tutorials out there for Racket, too. I recommend this one, by Racket star Jens Axel Søgaard: https://github.com/soegaard/web-tutorial .

I hope you'd give Racket a chance. Since you're talking about it, it sounds like you're dipping your toes in the waters. I'm pretty sure you'll find them quite welcoming. That said, all this negativity is pretty off-putting.

Yarc (A Roam clone) incorporates bidirectional links and is partially written in python, so I can look it over to help with the structure. Emacs org-roam incorporates this concept too, and they use SQLite to manage the files. I already have a bit of experience with SQLite in python, so I don't think that part should be too hard. What will be hard is the mechanics of how bi-directional links work. Something needs to make sure all the files update the link names if a link is changed, and update the linked references every time a new one is created. I think I can figure out the app layout on my own. For now, I want to store the files locally so that I don't have to be connected to the internet. And then I have to find a way to get the notes off of the app and onto my computer every once in a while, but I'll save that for later.