I vibe-coded an app purely for myself, called it Timeline — a web application. I took the reference and overall inspiration from Alexander Zaytsev.

For a long time I used Bear app for my notes. I wrote draft posts there, logged my days, stored info about work tasks. It’s a good app, with really cool design and good sync. But it’s not local files and in age of AI agents it’s a real red flag for an app. I can’t simply point agent to some file for context.

I already moved to Obsidian multiple times for some period of time, but there was always something to frustrate me. It’s not so good in UX as Bear. Yeah, infinite tinkering, multiple plugins and local files – good, but…

And I did it again. Bought Sync for a month to try and support devs, exported all notes from Bear and started to use Obsidian. But this time it’s different.

Every week someone tells you there’s a new AI tool you must try or you’ll be left behind. New model, tool, workflow or approach. Miss it – and you’re out. This sounds familiar, because we’ve seen this pattern before.

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• I’ve been using most of the apps for a long time;
• a slight tendency towards self-hosted;
• I try not to complicate things and often use default applications.

I’ve been keeping a diary journal for few years now. I’m just a human being, so I don’t write every day. And sometimes it’s just a short sentence, other times it’s a couple of reflections. But I try to stick to this habit because even minimal written reflection is much more effective than simply thinking things through in your head. As for the other benefits of journaling, there’s already so much information out there that you can easily find it.

I saw Andrey Sitnik’s tweet about non-modal layout switch in Linux and decided to do the same in macOS.