Hi folks, I'm Grant. longtime (podcast) listener checking in from Raleigh, NC. Still taking the temperature on this community but I'd probably position my work on the practical side of things; I'm interested in new ideas insofar as they help me make the end products I dream about making, and more easily. To that end I've been building out my own local-first/crdt/multiplayer framework for the web for the sake of building the grocery list of my dreams and I've been having a lot of fun with that. I'm in a bit of a lull at the moment and busy with a new kid, but I'm interested to see if there's any local connections in Raleigh in this community. I get fomo from all those cool London demo meetups.

I too was about to build the "grocery list of my dreams" just a few weeks ago, but used discipline and will power to stop myself and get back to abstract bluesky research, as usual. I now use Obsidian and Syncthing ... but I still dream, in my less guarded moments...

I'd be curious what your dream feature is. Always looking for new ideas. I will say, though, I thought Gnocchi would only take a few weeks to get right, but it's been 6 months of heavy work! The only saving grace is I put a lot of that time into my local-first framework which I hope to reuse for future dream projects.

Well, I was actually needing a generic to-do list, so I could tell you what my dream to-do list has? I'll just go ahead and dump my thoughts, since it's all fresh in my mind and seems relevant to this: • ability to select the font (weight, color, slant) by tapping, between at least two options: usually "normal" with a bullet point and text, but then "done" with a different bullet point like "x" and strikethrough text • then ability to add more fonts to choose, such as adding faint or grey - this would be used in the case where I have a shopping list where most items are left on the list but greyed out; then I can tap them into "fetch me", with normal text, and "in the basket" with strikethrough • once I've done a shop, a global reset back to one font - in the shopping list case, back to greyed out ready for next time • all of this now doesn't make any distinction between a to-do item and a paragraph in a note: I'd also like to be able to make notes, then highlight and low-light and strike through any para at a time • ability to move one or more paras or to-dos up or down in a list, or between lists - quickly, without going through layers of menus • this is the most important one: ability to grab a link to any to-do or paragraph, then create a new list and just drop them in it; this way, I can make a daily list, with all the things I need to do and think about that day; any edits I do to the items will obviously be reflected back in the source list or note they came from ready by next week? Android please.

Really interesting. Are you designing with the idea that the list is persistent and re-used after it's completed? i.e. always buying the same groceries? I do get this for things like weekend trip packing lists, which I use Google Keep for.

Yes I also have a holiday list that persists between holidays and an OCD list for locking up the house!