Just Post-It

An open-source version of my Draft Pad app presented in this article.

Included features:

• Self hosted oriented with pm2.
• Post-its like notes dropped on a canvas.
• Post-its can be moved and resized as desired.
• Post-its can be minimized to save space.
• Post-its can be maximized to edit comfortably.
• Position of post-its is persistent and relative to the view-port.
• Notes can also be displayed in an orderly manner.
• Categories are identified by a color.
• Categories are managed in settings.
• Plain text that can be previewed as markdown with code syntax highlighting.
• Each post-it can be download as ".md".
• Notes can be associated to a date.
• Settings: theme, font family, spell checking, auto-correct and keyboard shortcuts visibility.

Used tools:

• Next.js
• React
• CSS/SCSS
• Self-hosting with pm2 as a node daemon
• File-system based storage
• Motion for animations and dragging
• Markdown
• Shiki for code syntax highlighting