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Date: Nov. 25, 2019
Location: Buried in Paper and Reeds
Mood: Magma Cooling, Flowing Slowly
Music: Hiroshi Yoshimura - Wet Land
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The semester is winding down. Classwork and projects are coming in
more slowly, but are proving more difficult and robust than previous ones. I
still haven't solidified any plans for next summer, but I'm in the process of
ironing things out with one opportunity in the city, and another possible
opportunity either here at home or somewhere in New Jersey.
Work is heating up. The holiday season is here, and everyone in the
area wants to get all their groceries at once. We ran out of many items today
and customers were complaining about it all night. I understand their
frustration. But there's something about being in the middle of that swirling
confusion, being buffeted by it day in and day out, that makes it all seem so
pointless. Why be mad about a frozen hunk of meat?
I nearly got run over by some guy in a pickup truck just trying to
make my way into the store today, but I wasn't complaining about that.
I had previously mentioned a terminal-based RPG game I was working on
in my free time. Well, as with all ill-conceived ideas, that went into the
garbage pretty quick. Replacing it was a different TUI idea.
I use Evernote to organize most of my writing, be it poetry or prose.
However, the client I use, Tusk, is somewhat bloated. It tries to emulate as
closely as possible the first-party browser application, but that leads to a
huge chunk of my system resources being taken up. And most of it going to
features that I never even use my Evernote account for. So, I decided to look
for a less resource-intensive alternative. The only terminal clients I found
for Evernote either sucked, or were no longer supported.
So I said "Fuck it, I'll make my own."
Thus, CurseNote was born. I'm now in the process of making my own
terminal-based Evernote client. The design is somewhat inspired by the TUI
client for Discord I discovered a little while ago, Cordless[1]. I've got
most of the UI taken care of, as well as some basic note/notebook operations,
but there is still a lot of work to be done regarding configuration, error
handling, and much more.
I've included a link to a screenshot of the app as it exists right
now in the phlog directory of my gophersite (which is most likely where
you're reading this now), so feel free to take a look and let me know what
you think of it so far.
Drop any feedback into my email:
[email protected]
Thanks,
- Ben
[1]
https://github.com/Bios-Marcel/cordless
