I’m currently looking to develop an open source app that can help somebody. I’m currently out of ideas, so I’d like to heard if from you guys.

Sorry if it seems to lazy to ask for ideas like that, I just thought that I could do it since the result will be a free app.

  • Emerald@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I can’t find an equivalent replacement for Musicolet. There are plenty of open source music players out there for Android that just don’t have the little features that Musicolet does. Such as multiple queues, lyric editing, metadata editing, format conversions, stop after the track finishes, easily reorder songs and clear queues, etc.

  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    9 months ago

    There is an IOS app for hot air balloon pilots called “Hot Air”. There is a similar app for Android that… Leaves much to be desired.

      • mehdi_benadel@lemmy.balamb.fr
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        9 months ago

        Logseq is such a hassle. They didn’t bother to write a proper abstraction for data blocks, they require you to write and read code like notes, and they don’t plan on making any proper data visualization other than the fancy and useless graph.

    • orosus@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      There is already an opensource alternative to Obsidian, its name is #Logseq, you have mobile and desktop app

      • XPost3000@lemmy.ml
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        9 months ago

        Nah they use “an open standard” being just markdown files or something, but the apps are still proprietary as far as I’m aware

        I really hate how I sometimes, though rarely, see Obsidian talked about as if it were open source just because it uses an open standard

        Like Photoshop isn’t open source because it can use PNG kinda thing

  • Maroon@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    FLOSS Shazam? I really love discovering music when I travel, but I see no open source version of it.

  • digger@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    KineStop - After Apple announcef Motion Cues, I went looking on Android because I cannot use my devices in a moving vehicle. KineStop is all I found. I went ahead and bought it because it helps (doesn’t completely get rid of motion sickness). I would gladly switch to an open source alternative if one were available.

  • The Hobbyist@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago

    I’m sorry, I don’t have any specific suggestions for you, but I am wondering: is there no open source app you yourself wish existed because you would need it?

    Working on an open source app because some else (and not you) needs it, is not a good way of staying engaged and caring about the solution. Being the user and target of a project yourself is usually a much netter way of caring and proposing something tailored to at least one individual, maybe more.

    Of course, if you are looking for a programming exercise, go for it, but then you don’t need ideas, you can reimplement something which already exists, perhaps which you like, but in your own way. But if you want to have an impact in the open source, it starts by needing something which you don’t really find anywhere and taking matter in your own hands to fix it :) this is not meant to disincentivize you, quite the opposite! I hope you stay attentive to your digital ecosystem to see which holes can be plugged :)

    I maintain a private list of ideas I just think of as I go about my day, of things I would like to write/create for myself and while I won’t be going through with all of them, I hope to be able to pick up one or several of them whenever I have time. I can through some ideas here, not as a hint that you should do it (I’ll probably do them myself regardless), but just to inspire you, maybe:

    • I am subscribed to a teachable program which has no app and the program is just static information. I want to pull it all and represent it to me offline, not requiring internet to manage my progress. It is also intended to help me archive what I paid for and not depend on the goodwill of teachables to allow me to continue access the resource.
    • an RSS feed manager which uses embeddings to automatically organise the content by topic rather than by source.
    • an anki plugin to highlight content in the browser based on words from anki that I have and have not learned, to improve my language learning and reading ability.

    I have a few more, but this should give you some hints, I hope! Good luck!

  • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    It would be a huge undertaking, but a Fitness and Health tracker / aggregator that could replace Google Fit and the likes.

    I really can’t bear how Google, Apple, Samsung, and all these big companies are the primary holders of our most intimate information. I’ve put some measures in place to limit who gets what, but it would be a huge boon to be the sole maintainer of my own info.

    The problem is that the various apps and devices which report data won’t immediately support syncing with a FOSS upstart…

    The app I use for grabbing my weight and BMI can only sync with a few other apps. The app I use for calorie and diet tracking can likewise only sync with a few apps. They happen to have Google fit in common, so I use that as an intermediary to transfer weight to the calorie/diet app. All my steps, exercise, and sleep stay in Zepp, separate from them all.

    It sure would be nice to have one service/application to rule them all and a secure method of storing one’s own personal information without having to give it to the tech companies. Sure, use one of the many cloud services but encrypt all the data so that they can’t steal it. Yadda yadda.

    One can dream.

  • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    I was going to write “a decent comic reader”, but I’ve recently discovered Kotatsu and it has literally changed my life.

  • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Obsidian.

    Markor is a great open source markdown editor for android, but I wish we had some decent WYSIWYG options, like obsidian, typora, etc.

    • 5ymm3trY@discuss.tchncs.de
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      9 months ago

      I am not an excessive note-taking guy, but I am using Notesnook for some time now and it does everything I needed so far.

      • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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        9 months ago

        Seems okay, but doesn’t allow editing of local files / folders, it wants you to use their paid sync service. Also its javascript / electron, not native android.

      • krash@lemmy.ml
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        9 months ago

        I used Joplin extensively for ~2 years, but I was constantly put off by the desktop applications UI and how my notes was stored in SQLite. The move to obsidian felt natural and I felt more in ownership over my files in their existing structure. Granted, obsidian is closed source and could go rogue, but when that happens, I am prepared to jump ship without too much pain.

        • nix@midwest.socialEnglish
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          9 months ago

          IMO Obsidian is already a little rogue, in the sense that it only supports their sync. I know you can glue something together by syncing the folder itself, but that’s not convenient or the point. For now I’ll stick with Joplin because it works with nextcloud nicely.

          • krash@lemmy.ml
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            9 months ago

            There is at least plugins that enables sync by alternative ways. They’re not as elegant, but work.

            Since everything, including settings, is stored in the same root folder as the notes - you can sync your settings along your notes through other tools too.

        • Opisek@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          I used Joplin for up to 8 hours daily for half a year (university) before switching to Obsidian, too. As far as I know, Joplin lets you store the notes as files, too, but you need to set it up that way from the start.

          Still, I found Obsidian to be much more pleasant and - ironically - easier to modify (by writing plugins) than Joplin.

        • d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          9 months ago

          Exactly. Not a huge fan of notes apps storing the data in a db.otherwise there is a lot to like about joplin. With obsidian i open my notes in codium all the time to make mass edits or fill gaps that obsidians UI cant meet, which is not possible with joplin.

          Fortunately with obsidian as long as you keep the plugins on the lighter side and keep any non-markdown content in seperate files via linking, im not too worried about having to jump ship if it ever goes bad. Worst case if a plugin dies or i have to migrate, the actual loss of data is that some plugin used json or whatever and it’d have to be converted or replaced.

          I do have hope at least that if the company folds they’ll open source it, or turn a blind eye to a community reengineering effort. And what is unique about obsidian markdown and metadata will probably get community-built migration tools quickly if enough people jump ship en masse.

          But for the time being Obsidian is the best option for me and i dont feel that bad about it.

          • lemmyingly@lemm.ee
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            9 months ago

            I don’t see the hate for storing data in a sqlite database. It’s still your data, you get to do with it as you please, and I’ve yet to see the data encrypted (let’s not give anyone any silly ideas here). You want to see your data outside of the program, just download any sqlite viewer. If you don’t mind CLI, then the tools provided by sqlite are more than good enough and are only a few MB in size.

            • d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              9 months ago

              Generally speaking I’m not opposed to sqlite. The case of a notes app is the one exception.

              If i need to make a big find and replace change, i dont need to rely on the app to have the capability or whip out a sql editor or cli tool. I just open my favorite text editor and do it. Or chain some cli tools built into the os.

              Its not even about data portability or export. Its about working with the data.

    • t0fr@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      Doesn’t have exactly the same.features but I’ve simply been using Logseq syncing my notes with Syncthing

  • 5ymm3trY@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 months ago

    File Explorer

    I haven’t checked in a while, but I am still using CX File Explorer because I didn’t find a FOSS alternative I like. Maybe it is just because I am used to it, but one thing I really like is the network feature that you can access local shares of a NAS.

    • TurboWafflz@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Honestly I feel like good mobile file managers are just like impossible with the small screen size. I just do everything from termux

    • kosmoz@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      Have you tried Material Files (it’s on fdroid)? It’s genuinely great and it supports different remote protocols, although I haven’t personally tried this feature.

  • MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub
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    9 months ago

    Something that comes up a lot but probably can’t be made open source is a wallet app. But if we ignore the payments part, Google wallet has some really nice features when dealing with plane tickets which I’d love to see in a standalone open source app.