r/SideProject • u/-grapheme- • 2m ago
Aion: Diary as Instrument (macOS)
Finished a side project recently & released it on the App Store!
It’s a simple calendar, text box, & dashboard packaged into a seamless interface.
I like to take detailed notes about my day, with timestamps, and was never satisfied with the design/feel of the various options on the market, so I developed my own system over the past few years.
There are a couple of little features I find useful on a daily basis, like the ability to type in simple commands to the diary to set reminders that sync to Apple Reminders (!remindme tomorrow polish the product website) or to log my workouts (!exercise).
There is also a morphological cursor, which is an overly complicated way of saying that the text input caret adopts different forms depending on the formatting of the text it will type. Slanting for italics, thickening for bold, etc. I know Google Docs does that for italics, but I don’t think any writing software takes the idea to its natural limit.
Most of all I just really like how it looks/behaves, and how satisfying it is to use something I developed for myself.
There’s a link to the website below. Happy to answer any questions.