Introduction

For more than a year now, I have been periodically returning to trying to rethink my note-taking application, Norka, to update the interface, add modern features, and finally add synchronization with the cloud.

I’ve had several attempts to use Rust to add speed and reliability to the application. I use C# (Gir.Core) for the same reasons and because I love this language. But unfortunately, in the end I returned to Python, because it and PyGObject provide the necessary development speed and support a lot of libraries that I need for my work. The Python development ecosystem for GTK looks the most mature and complete.

Disclaimer

Laska is under active development and is not supposed to be used in production. API may change dramatically in future versions.

Intro

It’s not a secret that Dart’s popularity comes from the Flutter framework and its acceptance by the community. I love Flutter as well, but what I miss is server-side. How cool it could be to be a full-stack developer by using only Dart language?

Nearly two years ago, Norka was born, a note-taking application made specifically for elementary OS and also distributed via Flathub. This version was far from version 1.0, its functionality was limited only to essential things: editing, searching, autosaving. Later, it introduced document search, export to various formats, spell checking, convenient keyboard shortcuts for editing, the ability to preview documents in HTML and statistics, etc. This was enough to start, but there was room for improvement. One possibility might be the ability to group notes in a folder and structure the user’s resources in a certain way. So what’s new comes in version 1.0?

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