lupec

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[–] lupec@lemmy.lpcha.im 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Node-RED is amazing! I find it strikes such a good balance between usability and user friendliness, been using it for automations alongside Home Assistant for a while. Outside of the usual IoT scenarios, you can also use it kinda like Android's Tasker if you get creative enough, as in for general purpose automation. Closest alternative of sorts I've found for PCs so far.

I remember using it to expose my (dumb) keyboard's RGB lighting as a controllable entity within Home Assistant at some point lol, that was a convoluted setup. Had a Windows PC where Node-RED would call a DIY python script that would then use a library to interface with the keyboard. I then managed to wire that up to HA somehow. Fun little project, for sure.

[–] lupec@lemmy.lpcha.im 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I used it for a while and right up to the point I actually set it up to give it a go, I'd never even heard of it before. Definitely feels like it flies under the radar.

I loved the idea behind it, but a few points ended up sticking out so I ended up dropping it at some point. Namely, I didn't like the markdown editor much, plus it was very awkward to use on mobile (which, granted, is an issue with most competitors). I also don't like how it's dabatase based, vastly prefer using local markdown files. Plus, it's more of a personal thing but I came to prefer graph based implementations better than hierarchical ones. Still, really impressive project and I very much appreciate that it's open source and fully self hostable, not much in the way of competition there when it comes to second brain alternatives.

After exploring a few options, I've ended up on Logseq. Shame that one isn't self hostable, not fully anyway, since last I checked you still need to open a local folder even if you do host it yourself.

[–] lupec@lemmy.lpcha.im 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sweet, definitely not a type of implementation I'd expect on top of the fediverse so that makes it even cooler!
Looks super well thought out, especially love the robust import feature and federated book data. I'll have to check it out sometime soon.

[–] lupec@lemmy.lpcha.im 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just checked and was able to get it to install on my end, OP might have updated it in the meantime.

[–] lupec@lemmy.lpcha.im 5 points 1 year ago

It's a neat project and it definitely helps in specific cases, but I don't think it'll change much when it comes to the overall picture because it'd still require coordinated effort by the folks managing their discord servers.
Server admins/mods would have to go out of their way to manually set this up so it's effectively opt-in, and I have a hunch there isn't much of an overlap between people who care about open, searchable discussions and people who choose to host them on discord servers. Maybe for discoverability's sake? Not sure.

[–] lupec@lemmy.lpcha.im 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, huh. Came here to ask which bug but I see now lol. I had no knowledge of this post's existence beforehand so yup, probably.

[–] lupec@lemmy.lpcha.im 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fuck yeah, that was my go-to app for like a decade right up until the great reddit migration. I'll very gladly pay for Pro all over again!

[–] lupec@lemmy.lpcha.im 4 points 1 year ago

Great resource, thank you!

[–] lupec@lemmy.lpcha.im 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I tried tons of personal knowledge management apps and eventually settled with Logseq. It's incredible if you're more of an outliner, the workflow just fits me like a glove. I just dump everything into daily journals and let the connections arise from there as I go.
My one big complaint is you can't self host a self contained web version of it (meaning you still have to open a local working folder even if you do host your own, which defeats the purpose imo), which then forces you to either sync between devices manually or use their paid service. Since there are Windows and Android apps I make do with Syncthing, but it's unnecessarily clunky.

[–] lupec@lemmy.lpcha.im 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks great and easy to use, thanks for sharing!

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