shao

learning, future of edtech, tools for thoughts, pkm(@doublememoryapp/@thezenjournal), AI, indie hacking, app making. Prev: flipgrid/msft, edpsych, academia

[shao @randomor]

ZenJournal v5 is finally on the App Store.

It has been 8 years in the making — including countless failed attempts to rewrite it with the latest SwiftUI, and the unforgivable indie-dev sin of making yet another journaling app.

But this is the one app I keep returning to.

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my biggest issue with chatgpt atlas other than the fact it hasn't been updated for the last 3 months ^[1] is the toggle tabs button is cmd + alt + t, which is not only confusing as the undo tab shortcut which is cmd + shift + t, but also much harder to type, and no way to customize...
[1]: https://t.co/ex9GWjVyQn

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@daniel_nguyenx Nice prompt! I used to talk to ChatGPT about this or branding ideas but in retrospect codex with more access to tools is much better at this.

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@CarlosBBuild That’s the only correct way to do journaling apps: @thezenjournal

Also great way to do bookmarking apps that will not shutdown: @doublememoryapp

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@WangNextDoor2 在美国很讨厌拖车公司，但是这样一想，其实他们也是造福社会，直接打电话拖车了事，警察给资质，罚款给社会，利益平衡。

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What if your Apple Reminders are heatmaps?

Is it finally time to ship this now that I’ve found a name and icon? #zenminder

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@ch_locher This is the way! The Zen of software crafting.

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Did you know Apple has its own Elasticsearch-like framework called CoreSpotlight?

For a purist implementation, that’s how search has worked in @doublememoryapp since day one. Apple even refreshed it a few years ago with a newer API, CSUserQuery, which adds more semantic search capabilities. As a bonus, you get Spotlight integration for free when you index your app’s data with it. Beautiful, right?

But here’s the painful truth:

It’s 12× slower than the older CSSearchQuery.

So what am I using to power search in the next version of DoubleMemory?

A SQLite-backed FTS5 sidecar index.

It’s 122× faster than CSSearchQuery and 1,410× faster than CSUserQuery.

And best of all, I never have to ask users to kill their Spotlight daemon to restore search again.

[shao @randomor]

Made this a few moons back:

Easiest way to share a list of podcasts. No accounts, everything saved in URL.

https://t.co/ieKvx4nyjp

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The app preview v1 for zenjournal was accepted by apple and then later rejected because it's not using a real screenshot but a mock video, had to create another version with the real app. #buildinpublic

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did zero seo on this, no visibility despite several high profile backlinks. just refreshed the site and also started SSR as well.

https://t.co/B0NYUT8jO5

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@daylightco @daringfireball I did most of it with terminus on daylight indeed. :) but you just reminded me maybe i should set this up with android chatgpt with codex as well....

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I built a tiny RSS reader because I got tired of every RSS app wanting me to create an account, install something, or subscribe to a plan.

Paste or prepend to a URL (any with a feed).
Start reading.
That's the whole product.

https://t.co/vt49kueutu

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@rampatra_ @ProductHunt No worries! Happy to support. That’s a bold move for sure, win win.

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@mitsuhiko Passwords by Apple is great. Just need to wait for another week maybe it will be perfect if it can add secure notes and 2FA.

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Image Memory. Heading to DoubleMemory TestFlight now. https://t.co/H04jc80GnV

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@rampatra_ @presentifyapp Nice! Great work!