u/matta9001

Hey all. I recently made a post about orbitalnote.org, which is a polished desktop/mobile app for org workflows I've been working on. I've also been using it as my main org client.

I love orgmode, but the one thing I could never get quite right (and man did I try), was seamless synchronization of TODOs on my desktop with my phone. I tried Syncthing/Orgzly (battery drain, unwanted org file formatting), and Git/Orgzly (constant conflicts, same formatting problems).

I really just needed a way to edit files on my desktop org client, and with zero friction, pull out my phone and tap the TODO item from an agenda list, and have it updated when I get back to my desktop.

So it's still in preview and I haven't gone through app store processes yet, but I can confidently say I've achieved that workflow with OrbitalNote, and it's the productivity system I've been using every day.

It's also E2E encrypted.

Even if you're using emacs/nvim, the OrbitalNote desktop app watches file changes and syncs to your phone, and this works today. I would also be open to packaging a headless daemon that allows the usage of this realtime sync service with your desktop org client of choice and OrbitalNote only on your phone.

Generally just enjoying this workflow and letting go of the mental frustration of having my digital life in the plaintext org file format I want, but synchronized in real time across my devices.

Thanks all.

Git repo: https://github.com/mannders00/OrbitalNote

Hey guys. Last year I switched to nvim-orgmode after trying many different organization systems. I love how it's a standard local plaintext file format that encourages forward motion. It really has helped me become substantially more productive at work.

Although at one point I was looking at my apple calendar, and really wished my org agendas were visualized there, especially monthly views. Although there seemed to be caldav exporters etc, I wanted to just open a local desktop app that reads my org folder directly, and show my month. This was the original idea behind OrbitalNote.

It does this well, but I had another idea. I used to use Obsidian and appreciate the plaintext markdown philosophy, but for productivity org makes more sense in my opinion. There doesn't seem to be an Obsidian level high quality desktop app with the same plaintext philosophy but geared specifically for org files and workflows. This is what I'm envisioning OrbitalNote could be.

This app is free and open source. I will be adding automatic sync with mobile if there's interest. It can be found here: https://orbitalnote.org/

Thank you all for your time, I would love to hear your thoughts.

Hey r/guitarlessons.

After struggling to learn music theory to write music or jam with others on the guitar for years, I made an interactive app to teach me.

The result is a streamlined workflow for choosing a key+scale, then assembling chord progressions until you get the feeling you're after.

It comes with basic clean/distorted preview sounds, but if you have an amp simulator on your computer, there's a "DI" mode which creates a simulated guitar string DI you can pipe right into an amp simulator, so you can try out ideas with the same tone you use to play. This is my favorite feature.

There's also a gallery of starting points for different genres, from shoegaze, to modern melodic rock, to jazz, to classical. I tried to incorporate a broad range so any guitar player could get started writing inspired by their favorite music.

It also has a spaced repetition guitar fretboard note quiz so you can memorize the fretboard with a system that's proven to learn efficienty.

I REALLY struggled to study theory and maintain my focus long enough so that I could walk away and actually apply what I learned.

With this tool, I can try out many ideas until I get the sound I'm after, then I can learn the shapes and play lead over that progression.

I'm finally writing music with a music theory understanding behind it, so I hope this free tool helps some of you achieve this as well. I would love to hear your thoughts.

Demo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMMSISz2gR0&t=1s

Website: fretboardtheory.net

Free Web App: https://fretboardtheory.net/app/index.html

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fretboard-theory/id6802108739

*This is a free app in the browser, only the app store version has a one time payment

Hey all. I'm a big fan self hosting and data sovereignty. I have a Pi 5 with docker services in my closet which is an amazing personal cloud. I have similar responsibilities at my job.

I find myself bouncing between static architecture PDFs, monitoring dashboards, and a shell to do work. Or more realistically, setting something up in a shell through trial and error, and leave it running without fully understanding the architecture or state of the full system.

A good architecture diagram is critical for production environments, but you switch to other tools to access the running system. A shared diagram representing and connected to the real system would be a powerful collaborative tool. So I made the diagram the operational surface itself.

You draw your real topology on an infinite canvas. Nodes runs health checks over ssh/kubectl and turn red on the map when one fails. The whole map is one git-diffable YAML file, you can edit it in vim and the canvas live-updates.

The complete desktop app for personal use is Free and MIT licensed, built with Rust/Tauri. The paid part is a single-binary team daemon that serves the same UI to browsers on your network, runs the checks 24/7, and keeps SSH keys on one host instead of everyone's laptops.

One r/selfhosted specific thing I love is the deployment model. Many cloud tools intentionally platform lock in customers to their platforms. Reticle daemon is just a binary you own, bundled with all static assets with simple usage, running in your environment. Reticle Desktop just uses your local ssh/kconf as would k9s for Kubernetes.

Fundamentally you have full data sovereignty while using this application, which I appreciate because I would want it. It's as free as neovim for local personal users.

Curious what this would need before it earned a spot next to your terminal. Thanks all.

https://reticle.live