[Problem] -- We have proprietary apps, like Workflowy (.com), or Dynalist (.io), that sell lists/trees management with great features (like subtexts, highlighting, etc.) with good amounts of freemium, but no true guarantees of privacy, and having data on a 3rd party's cloud. There are also open source apps for tree editing, like Calculist (.io), which unfortunately, are not that easy to use.
[Idea] -- list management is not so different from source code management, and there exists open source editors, such as VSCode (Visual Studio Code), that support plugins and in-between-the-lines notes. So, with minor investment to open source, we could have an open source plugin replicating those features, and enabling the use for private lists/trees exchange.
Notes: could export/import with YAML-like format, OPML format, etc.-- Mindey, Oct 06 2019 GitHub -- created a generic issue, that would help later implement this more easily. https://github.com/...vscode/issues/82084 [Mindey, Oct 08 2019] I've not come across "list management" as a discrete thing before - however, I do think there's a huge opportunity in using tools like Git for non-binary document management generally. Whether you're writing technical manuals, short stories, lists, markup documents, articles, code, whatever - if there's a potential for edits and re-writes - especially across a team - then Git is the way forward. You can see changes, who made them, when and what their motivation was - as well as keeping a full history so you can revert to an earlier version. Who'd do anything otherwise?-- zen_tom, Oct 07 2019 From the idea title, I was half-expecting this to be a reinvention of Lisp.
// Who'd do anything otherwise? //
Insufficiently technical people, who will almost certainly continue to exist (both unfortunately and fortunately).-- notexactly, Oct 07 2019 // I do think there's a huge opportunity in using tools like Git for non-binary document management generally //
[zen_tom], I totally agree here, and that's the "why" part of the idea.-- Mindey, Oct 08 2019 [Mindey], I'm getting connection timeout every time when trying to load your video.-- notexactly, Oct 09 2019 [notexactly], sorry, that apparently was the problem of my ISP. Looks good now.-- Mindey, Oct 09 2019 Yep, works now :)-- notexactly, Oct 09 2019 random, halfbakery