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Hey selfhosters ๐Ÿ‘‹

0.7 is out. Biggest release so far.

Quick context if you missed the previous posts: Ideon is a self-hosted visual workspace for developers. Infinite canvas, everything about a project in one place: notes, Git repos, tasks, files, links, kanbans.

The problem was never too many tools. It was that none of them talk to each other.

What's new:

  • Obsidian import: drop a vault into a project, notes become blocks on the canvas
  • Vercel integration: deploy and check deployment status without leaving the canvas
  • Excalidraw block: killed the old Sketch block, Excalidraw is just better
  • Folder block: group and collapse blocks, helps a lot on bigger projects
  • Drag and drop import: files, folders, text, Excalidraw sketches, drop anything on the canvas and Ideon picks the right block type
  • Vim mode for Note and Snippet blocks, opt-in from Account settings
  • Audio and video playback in File blocks

300+ stars now, more than I expected when I first posted here. Every issue, every comment pushed this forward, thank you.

Anyway. Worth a try if you haven't yet :)

GitHub: https://github.com/3xpyth0n/ideon

Docs: https://www.theideon.com/docs

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[โ€“] expyth0n@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Fair point. Docker is the only install path right now. I'm a solo dev and I can't properly test across multiple platforms yet. A desktop app is on my list, it'll happen if the project grows enough to justify it. And if you ever recover that energy, PRs are open :D