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apshrestha··on Show HN: Text Lambda, a versatile notebook for your personal data
Thank you. Is there any specific functionality that you are looking for that is not mentioned or perhaps done poorly in Text Lambda?

There are definitely lots of 'notebook' products out there, and they all excel in their own ways by making different trade-offs. Standardnotes, Obsidian etc. support user-side encryption but in my opinion they are not as versatile as they could be. I am also keeping it plain-text only for a few reasons that are important to me:

1. keep the UI straightforward and efficient to use 2. provide seamless integration with popular text editors (emacs, vim, vs-code) 3. support some nice functionality for editing structured text like markdown and org (like org-mode in Emacs)

I can consider some hybrid approach in the future if the 3 things above are not affected.

apshrestha··on Show HN: Text Lambda, a versatile notebook for your personal data
wow dayoneapp looks impressive. Thanks for mentioning it.
apshrestha··on Show HN: Text Lambda, a versatile notebook for your personal data
Thank you!

"stash", the initial MVP version, is written in Haskell. I chose Haskell mostly because of https://github.com/jtdaugherty/brick, which is a wonderful TUI library. I also tend to prefer functional programming languages when I have the choice.

However, Text 's backend and website are currently implemented in Clojure. The app is in C + Flutter (Dart).

apshrestha··on Text λ – Safe text storage app (Beta release)
Text λ is a simple text storage app with user-side encryption.

It is currently available for Beta testing.

I would appreciate any feedback or suggestions on the product.

Thank you.