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bruce965

Developing a self-hosted alternative to Google Keep

lemmy.ml/post/28254766

lemmy.mlDeveloping a self-hosted alternative to Google Keep - LemmyHi! I’m a software developer working on a suite of collaborative self-hostable apps to replace proprietary services I couldn’t find a good replacement for. I am writing this post to seek opinions and ideas now that I am still in the early prototyping phase, before it’s too late to change track. My idea is to develop a collection of simple single-purpose apps that do one and only one thing. The first app will be called Simple Notes [https://git.fabioiotti.com/simple-apps/simple-notes] (mirror [https://github.com/simple-apps-suite/simple-notes]), a replacement for Google Keep. Every operation is encrypted locally on the client, and the server never sees plaintext data. I am investigating federations models to let users connect to other instances and work collaboratively, much like Lemmy. So, my goals in order of priority are: - No compromises on privacy and security - Completely FOSS - Read-time collaboration between users - Asynchronous collaboration (work offline, sync when back online) - One account to operate on all apps in this suite - Web UI / desktop UI / mobile UI - Minimal interface which my grandma can use, no feature-bloat - No anti-features such as advertisements, tracking, etc… - Self-hosting - Federation After Simple Notes, I plan to keep developing other simple apps, some ideas on my list: - Simple Notes - Replacement for Google Keep - Simple Split - Replacement for SplitWise - Simple Chat - Replacement for WhatsApp/Slack/Meet/Teams - Simple Docs - Replacement for Google Docs - Simple Draw - Collaborative drawing app - Simple Calendar - Replacement for Google Calendar Initially I started writing my own protocol [https://git.fabioiotti.com/simple-apps/simple-collab/src/branch/main/docs/Protocol.md] (mirror [https://github.com/simple-apps-suite/simple-collab/blob/main/docs/Protocol.md]), operating quite differently from Lemmy’s, but then I realized that someone else already has developed a protocol for this purpose: Matrix [https://spec.matrix.org/]. It is (optionally) E2EE, it’s FOSS, and it’s federated. So yeah, it sounds like the perfect choice to me. Also, if I pick Matrix, Simple Chat will just be a reskin of Element, so development cost is almost zero. So, a questions for the developers on the Lemmy Selfhosted community: do you think piggybacking the Matrix protocol would be a good choice? Do you know any alternative that might be more suited for this purpose? And a question for all Lemmy Selfhosted users: is there a simple app that you would like me to add to the list? Bonus question: do you know of any Lemmy community where I could repost? Thank you very much for the time you spent reading my post! – Link to source code on my server [https://git.fabioiotti.com/simple-apps/simple-collab] and GitHub mirror [https://github.com/simple-apps-suite].
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ShouldIHaveFun

This sounds great. I would definitely love a splitwise alternative in particular!

You may want to think about using another name for your app suite though. Since it may bring confusion with the simple mobile tools (simplemobiletools.com/index.html) which for example also have a “Simple Notes” app.

Simple Mobile ToolsSimple Mobile ToolsA group of simple, open source Android apps without ads and unnecessary permissions, with customizable colors.
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bruce965

Ah, that’s why the UI looked familiar! I have some of their apps on my Android :P

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