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by xixixao 2850 days ago
I’m super interested in this space! Agree with sibling that focus here is on knowledge management while question mentions media, which is probably even more interesting challenge. I recently dreamed up something that kinda resembled Airtable (which you should check out), albeit I was thinking more of datomic like system as opposed to tables (more flexible, but tables are nice and simple). I like the mention of wiki like system, I still find wikipedia to be my favorite knowledge source. I guess for me the ideal system has bunch of requirement you haven’t mentioned:

- mobile and desktop friendly (especially input) - full local backup, including any metadata (so that I can always use another software, not cloud-first-with-export) - can be purely single-person (plenty existing sharing platforms) - it’s gotta support arbitrary nesting (I hate evernote/one note three levels to a wisiwig page rigidness) - any others?

I also wonder whether there’s enough market for selling this software (Airtable is going after business use cases, the single-player use case makes it quite limited).

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Forgot one: full tree history. No way to lose data, even if I do undo, delete a page, etc. Super important.