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Something I made to replace an ever-growing pile of scratch papers with ToDo lists for everything under the sun. It's a single html page, depends only on jQuer

Something I made to replace an ever-growing pile of scratch papers with ToDo lists for everything under the sun. It's a single html page, depends only on jQuery and a small webfont pack. It can be used completely offline, and it stores all data locally. The UI is optimized for keeping things as compact as it gets and adding new notes as quickly as possible. There are screenshots of the UI in action on the GH page - https://github.com/apankrat/nullboard https://github.com/apankrat/nullboard

apankrat 7y ago
PS. Since we are showing things... I also ended up writing a screen-to-gif recorder to make the gifs for the Nullboard's readme. I always assumed this was a rather involved matter, but it was a surprisingly simple thing to do. Just GetDC() + BitBlt() in a loop + some nuances. It looks something like this - https://swapped.cc/tmp/giffer-screencap.gif https://swapped.cc/tmp/giffer-screencap.gif The release "page" is over at - https://gist.github.com/apankrat/14b28656236d78407b28aef3102cf72d https://gist.github.com/apankrat/14b28656236d78407b28aef3102... If there's any interest I can clean up and publish the source.
- frederikb 7y ago
  I can strongly recommend ScreenToGIF [1]. It literally does as the name says but packs in some helpful additional features related to editing. [1] https://www.screentogif.com/ https://www.screentogif.com/
  - apankrat 7y ago
    One man's "helpful additional features" are another man's feature bloat. Specialization vs. Universality and all that. I find that for a quick capture/re-capture grabs, with no editing, STF adds too many extraneous clicks and interaction. Heck, even GifCam [1] is too UX heavy for back-to-back captures. The whole point of Giffer is that you launch it, size it, press F1, press F1 again. Done. To re-record do F1/F1 again. That's it. [1] http://blog.bahraniapps.com/gifcam/ http://blog.bahraniapps.com/gifcam/
    - voltagex_ 7y ago
      Finally remembered what it reminds me of: LiceCap from https://www.cockos.com/licecap/ https://www.cockos.com/licecap/
- voltagex_ 7y ago
  Hey, thanks for this and bvckup2! I'd definitely be interested in seeing the source.
  - apankrat 7y ago
    OK. It won't be compilable, because of dependencies on the UI framework and utility libraries, which I can't yet release, but it still should be very much readable and easy enough to hack into a usable state.
rakoo 7y ago
That's a very nice project, congrats for something that is at least useful to someone! As you're already aware the mobile version isn't as straightforward as on desktop but it's still ok for read access at least. If it's all stored in the browser, how durable is it ? If my computer restarts can I expect it to still be here ? If I switch browsers it won't ? I'm using workflowy for rapid note taking and one of the most important aspect is being able to access my notes on multiple devices. If you're using json I'm sure it's possible to hook it up to some couchdb and be able to see it everywhere. But that's possibly not even in your roadmap.

apankrat 7y ago

PS. Since we are showing things... I also ended up writing a screen-to-gif recorder to make the gifs for the Nullboard's readme. I always assumed this was a rather involved matter, but it was a surprisingly simple thing to do. Just GetDC() + BitBlt() in a loop + some nuances. It looks something like this - https://swapped.cc/tmp/giffer-screencap.gif https://swapped.cc/tmp/giffer-screencap.gif The release "page" is over at - https://gist.github.com/apankrat/14b28656236d78407b28aef3102cf72d https://gist.github.com/apankrat/14b28656236d78407b28aef3102... If there's any interest I can clean up and publish the source.

frederikb 7y ago
I can strongly recommend ScreenToGIF [1]. It literally does as the name says but packs in some helpful additional features related to editing. [1] https://www.screentogif.com/ https://www.screentogif.com/
- apankrat 7y ago
  One man's "helpful additional features" are another man's feature bloat. Specialization vs. Universality and all that. I find that for a quick capture/re-capture grabs, with no editing, STF adds too many extraneous clicks and interaction. Heck, even GifCam [1] is too UX heavy for back-to-back captures. The whole point of Giffer is that you launch it, size it, press F1, press F1 again. Done. To re-record do F1/F1 again. That's it. [1] http://blog.bahraniapps.com/gifcam/ http://blog.bahraniapps.com/gifcam/
  - voltagex_ 7y ago
    Finally remembered what it reminds me of: LiceCap from https://www.cockos.com/licecap/ https://www.cockos.com/licecap/
voltagex_ 7y ago
Hey, thanks for this and bvckup2! I'd definitely be interested in seeing the source.
- apankrat 7y ago
  OK. It won't be compilable, because of dependencies on the UI framework and utility libraries, which I can't yet release, but it still should be very much readable and easy enough to hack into a usable state.

rakoo 7y ago

That's a very nice project, congrats for something that is at least useful to someone! As you're already aware the mobile version isn't as straightforward as on desktop but it's still ok for read access at least. If it's all stored in the browser, how durable is it ? If my computer restarts can I expect it to still be here ? If I switch browsers it won't ? I'm using workflowy for rapid note taking and one of the most important aspect is being able to access my notes on multiple devices. If you're using json I'm sure it's possible to hook it up to some couchdb and be able to see it everywhere. But that's possibly not even in your roadmap.