thinkord/thinkord-desktop

An open source desktop application dedicated to helping people conveniently capture their thoughts within a second.

Thinkord

Thinkord is a open source desktop application dedicated to helping people comveniently capture their thoughts.

It was originally developed by 5 college students, we call ourself 3071, in National Central University in Taiwan. We believe capturing thoughts should not be that cumbersome, but simple and fast.

Hope you find this application helpful. If you are interested in developing Thinkord with us, please follow this comtribution guideline.

Install

Prerequiste

Download and install Nodejs

To clone this repo.

git clone https://github.com/h164654156465/thinkord.git

After cloning to your destination, executing below command in your root.

npm install

If you want to develop, run

npm run dev

Below you could choose one of the options.
(1) If you want to build this repo and test it, run

npm run build
npm run start

(2) Otherwise, you could build and distribute it, run

npm run build
npm run start
npm run win

After packaging the application, folder dist would be created and you could click .exe to install(deploy) it to your local machine.

Architecture

• React
A Javascript front-end development architecture, originally developed by Facebook. We use it to build collection note and control bar.

• Electron & Node.js
A cross-platform desktop application development framework, developed by GitHub. We use it to invoke APIs that interact with the operating system. Such as screenshots, screen recording, audio recording.

• Electron builder
Convert the original code to the installation package for users to use.

Resources

Thinkord official website

License

GNU GPLv3 License