(2023-07-21) Martin The Dwindling Distinction Between Docs And Apps

Jess Martin: The dwindling distinction between docs and apps. I'm intrigued by the idea of sharing a single "document" between applications, where each app can be good at the thing that it's good at. Unfortunately, this is not where we find ourselves today.

In my own workflow, I feel this pain. Each week, I write down my weekly plan in a markdown file on my local machine. I use todo items from GitHub-flavored Markdown but I also sprinkle in prose, headings, sub-bullets, etc. (to-do list)

As some of you know, I'm also a lover of Kanban boards and would love to view this file as a board.

How hard can it be to build something like this?

To find out, last November I built a tiny tool for myself that I call todo.kanban. It's a Svelte-based web app that uses the browser's FileSystem API to open a markdown file on your device and render it as a Kanban board

Rebuilding todo.kanban in DXOS has been delightful.

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