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49 pointsaciswhat5y ago14 comments

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Hello HN! This is something I made for personal use, but thought others might find it useful. It's pretty much just a board that you can add random notes to, which can be formatted in Markdown or just plaintext. You can also drag around and rearrange notes, which will auto-tile to not have overlaps. If you have feature requests/ideas, please feel free to create an issue or PR :)

The demo is here: https://spaceboard.vercel.app/

ksaj5y ago

It reminds me of Post-It type apps, except that the cards can be resized or reshaped, and of course, markdown. Feature request: Configurable colours for the bar on top of individual cards, which would allow colour-coded posts similar to what a lot of calendar apps do for Home and Work.

I might use this on our home intranet. Good way to maintain grocery list and todo activities, along with whatever other things families tend to write in magnetic letters on the fridge.

EDIT: Ah, I see you are working on a colour method already, according to the Todo list.

ericpruitt5y ago

Where's the license?

aciswhatOP5y ago

Ah, forgot to add. Made it MIT license.

azeirah5y ago

Fwiw, I made something really similar to this a couple of years ago. It's available for free on sandstorm.io

https://github.com/azeirah/brainstorm

Made in meteor

rapnie5y ago

Nice. Tip: add topics such as 'markdown' to repo for findability. I overlooked this on my recent GH search for markdown projects.

idontevengohere5y ago

Would be awesome if you could share the notes (either individually, or the whole space)! I'd probably use this just bc you can arrange things wherever you want :D

aciswhatOP5y ago

Yep, this is on the short list of my todos at the bottom of the README. Unfortunately, this would seem to conflict with the whole local browser storage setup currently ...

foopod5y ago

A simple way to share a note that would work with your current setup could be generating a link with the notes content encoded in base64 or similar.

e.g. https://spaceboard.vercel.app/content/SGVsbG8gSE4hIFRoaXMgaX...

Like yeah, it's not pretty. But it would work.

cetra35y ago

Looks great! I'm a big fan of using markdown for simple formatting of notes.

I've also used the layout library (react-grid-layout) with great success for my toy lorikeet alerting dashboard project: https://github.com/cetra3/lorikeet-dash

MrGilbert5y ago

Cool! Add a persistent, server-side storage to it, and you've got a whiteboard for "work-from-home" situations.

Of course, having a 65"+ touch display in the office could be useful for this use-case. :D

meagher5y ago

Similar to http://manifest.app

5986043handy5y ago

This looks awesome! I love the tech stack as well, huge fan of TypeScript/React/Next.js

stephenr5y ago

Does not work, at all, on mobile for me (iOS)

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14 comments

aciswhatOP5y ago

The demo is here: https://spaceboard.vercel.app/

ksaj5y ago

I might use this on our home intranet. Good way to maintain grocery list and todo activities, along with whatever other things families tend to write in magnetic letters on the fridge.

EDIT: Ah, I see you are working on a colour method already, according to the Todo list.

ericpruitt5y ago

Where's the license?

aciswhatOP5y ago

Ah, forgot to add. Made it MIT license.

azeirah5y ago

Fwiw, I made something really similar to this a couple of years ago. It's available for free on sandstorm.io

https://github.com/azeirah/brainstorm

Made in meteor

rapnie5y ago

Nice. Tip: add topics such as 'markdown' to repo for findability. I overlooked this on my recent GH search for markdown projects.

idontevengohere5y ago

Would be awesome if you could share the notes (either individually, or the whole space)! I'd probably use this just bc you can arrange things wherever you want :D

aciswhatOP5y ago

Yep, this is on the short list of my todos at the bottom of the README. Unfortunately, this would seem to conflict with the whole local browser storage setup currently ...

foopod5y ago

A simple way to share a note that would work with your current setup could be generating a link with the notes content encoded in base64 or similar.

e.g. https://spaceboard.vercel.app/content/SGVsbG8gSE4hIFRoaXMgaX...

Like yeah, it's not pretty. But it would work.

cetra35y ago

Looks great! I'm a big fan of using markdown for simple formatting of notes.

I've also used the layout library (react-grid-layout) with great success for my toy lorikeet alerting dashboard project: https://github.com/cetra3/lorikeet-dash

MrGilbert5y ago

Cool! Add a persistent, server-side storage to it, and you've got a whiteboard for "work-from-home" situations.

Of course, having a 65"+ touch display in the office could be useful for this use-case. :D

meagher5y ago

Similar to http://manifest.app

5986043handy5y ago

This looks awesome! I love the tech stack as well, huge fan of TypeScript/React/Next.js

stephenr5y ago

Does not work, at all, on mobile for me (iOS)

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse