Just submitted it to Apple for review this past weekend... basically Scapple's visual text canvas meets Workflowy's hierarchical focusing. I mainly wrote the app for myself to organize my thoughts. Very happy with how it has turned out.
Edit: Would be interested to hear why this was downvoted?
This looks pretty cool, I've wanted to make something similar but with more structure to the relationships between nodes. Did you implement the canvas from scratch or use something like xyflow?
Yep, implemented the canvas from scratch with SwiftUI, which is a lot of fun though it did have its share of "gotchas", especially in combo with SwiftData.
And thanks for the heads up about the cert expiration (just had expired yesterday), I renewed the cert now.
I actually made something quite similar to this with a few friends as an app 14 years ago using Wikipedia data. We called it LineTime, it was a fun little project! (Wow, I even found our video from back then...and man, that really was a LONG time ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW__WZ6pxJ8)
I live in Germany and UPS is asking for 116€ customs / fees for a personal gift package someone sent me worth $47 (40€ which is below the new 45€ de minimis line). Nearly everything in the blog post happened to me just this past week except I didn't have 116€ at home in cash(!) so they will be delivering on Monday (when I will have cash and then try to get it all back from UPS).
The whole thing is unbelievably infuriating and insane and I will warn anyone in the States to never again use UPS for shipping abroad.
A hierarchical text canvas for organizing thoughts and taking notes. I wrote v1 years ago and now spent about year rewriting it in SwiftUI and adding all my dream features like reminders, deep linking, and lots more. Currently in TestFlight beta, nearing release.
As the link shows, if you would put it on a t-shirt, you can absolutely expect to hear from Nintendo's lawyers, so the question will just be whether you have the time to put up a fight.
Oh, Nintendo can't technically win a lawsuit against you if you make something for personal use, but they absolutely can and will try and ruin you financially before it sees a courtroom.
Hey HN - I'm John Goering - Java dev by day and indie app dev by night. :)
I've just started a public beta of Mindscope 2, a mind-mapping thought organizer app for iOS and macOS that’s been in my head for nearly 8 years, and I thought to celebrate, I'd post a Show HN.
The "spark" for this app came when I thought how cool a combination of Scapple's free-form layouting and Workflowy's focused hierarchy drilldown might be, especially if the primary goal was to keep things as simple, smooth, and fast as possible.
The first version of Mindscope was one of my earliest iOS apps, written in Objective-C. It worked well - MacStories reported positively on it - and it's been fun hearing from people over the years how much they've used it and love it, but as other projects grabbed my attention, it ended up on my back burner.
But for the last few years I’ve slowly been rebuilding it from scratch in SwiftUI, adding macOS and watchOS support, proper CloudKit sync, as well as features I had always wanted myself, like deep linking, reminders, long-form notes, OPML import and export, and lots more.
It’s a freemium app (all features included with 2 boards and 200 entries free) with a Pro subscription plan for unlimited notes and boards. During the beta, the Pro version is free, of course.
I would appreciate feedback or questions of any kind!
Interestingly, for this parallax 3D effect to work, the head tracking needs to basically move "backwards" from typical head tracking since it needs to keep the focal point the same, if I'm understanding correctly. Any time I've tried this out it's fun and would likely be most useful for something like a 3D painting you hang on your wall.
Related idea, but not the same, might be my iOS and Android app that uses your phone's AR for head tracking and then sends that data to your PC for smooth sim game head tracking. https://smoothtrack.app
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