Development Log

How I'm building Nokta

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Nokta is growing!

Nokta is growing!

"Eat your own dogfood" is probably one of the grossest corporate oneliners out there. But after v0.11 that's what I did. I wanted to be a user of my own app and work on other stuff for a while. I moved the website to a new domain, renamed the git repository and had some fun building a niche tool for vintage AKAI samplers.

Nokta Notes sort of naturally became my central point for storing notes and updates. As (probably) its only user (at this point) I can truly say:

this app is exactly what I need! I'm really happy with it. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

J.Das, author

Simply using an app is a great way to find improvements, bugs and tweaks. I've been making it a priority to note everything I find in checklists in a .nokta file. That list pretty much what you're seeing in v0.12.0 and v0.13.1: small quality of life improvements, new features and making the app more mature in the back end.

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Automated testing

Admittedly, Claude Code's end of year double data bonanza was welcomed with open arms when it came to automated testing. Let's put it like this: without help from AI, I would not have written 1000+ li...

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Markdown

As of v0.11.0, Nokta Notes supports Markdown editing! Markdown was something I wanted to add from the very start, but I'm glad I parked it until now. Focusing on the basics of the editor first (thi...

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•release

v0.10.1 for Linux

I like Linux. I'm not a heavy user, but I could see that changing. Pop OS LTS 24 is pretty good nowadays. I actually installed Linux because of Nokta. Tauri builds your project just as easily on Li...

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v0.10.0 - Summary of changes

Formatting fixes: Text colors, highlights, indentation, tabs in lists and code blocks behave properly now. Search and replace: Highlights update correctly, clear when switching notes, and can handle...

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v0.10.0 - A Solid Foundation

Building an app is a lot of work. You add some functionality, and it sort of works. Then you redo it, redo it again, throw it all away because it's sort of not working, too. Then try something else...

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