fbruch/lrx-io

ListerX Information Organizer

This once will be an application and platform supporting personal information management on the Desktop, primarily.

Goals

1. Integrate as much of a user’s personal information as feasible and provide an integrated view on all local and eventually remote sources. The information should be searchable, filterable and editable.

2. Suitable for multiple types of (textual) resources: notes, tasks, playlists, slideshows, bookmarks, blog posts etc.

3. Slim UI with browser-like navigation, history, bookmarks, session management and tab/window-handling.

4. The platform should allow easy extension (as well as reduction) of functionality, for which as much as possible will be realized as plugins for some kind of Micro Kernel.

5. The application will encourage the use of lightweight markup languages and local storage to preserve the personal information sovereignity.

6. Every view in the application (even on single files) is accessible using stable URLs, even if the storage locations may change.

Technology

• In order to be platform independent and properly integrated into the user’s desktop environment, the programming language will be Java. Other JVM languages should be easily usable as well.

• The modern UI will be realized with JavaFX assisted by an an embedded web server, probably Jetty.

• Search will be based on Lucene, or maybe Elastic Search.

• Initially supported textual markups will be Markdown and Asciidoctor.

• Built with Gradle.

Inspirations

• ZIM Desktop Wiki

• RedNotebook

Privacy

• User data manifesto

• Bittorrent Sync and Syncthing