Hackable, Local, AI-powered notes

I hope not, my opinions toward AI (or rather LLMs) are mixed. My current position can be roughly outlined as:

- AI is not a "higher-level abstraction" like programming languages over assembly. For a simple reason: it is not deterministic.
- Using AI may and likely will cause skill degradation if used as a solo replacement for typing code or writing prose (like "vibe coding").
- I think the best use of it (at the moment) is if you can expertly assess the output. So the UX I'm leaning towards will try to emphasize that idea.
- Luckily, working with text, adding small scripts, etc. qualifies as such.
- But moreover, I think it can be used as a discovery tool - try asking with a quick prompt, "What are the current keybindings?"

I hope I've convinced you to give Shelv a try.

Yes, but with time. Shelv is written in Rust + egui, so it is possible to port it to all these platforms.

I don't. I worked on Shelv for over 2 years, and I had a dream to start company(still do), but as of now, it is a labor of love, because I couldn't find a good business model, if you have ideas please let me know. Tentatively I plan to add ability just to buy tokens, but that seems lame. I plan to cap to $20/month the claude account assosiated with the app, but you can choose your providers for AI features, includind Ollama.

Not yet, I'm a local first movement fan, and wanted to use Automerge forever, but I want to implement e2e encryption with Rust sever, which is being worked on right now, and it is darn had to do an e2e encrypted scalable sync technically and from product point of view.

Yes and no, it has a licence inspired by PolyForm Strict 1.0.0 license. Which means that you cannot use Shelv compiled from source for work or repackage it to a new app. However that applies to the "build from" source option, you can (and hopefully will) just use the version from the app store.

Native is a spectrum, shelv is written in Rust using egui as the gui toolkit, which in turn is using wgpu, not Swift UI tech stack. Maybe the closest analogy would be Flutter that is painting every pixel. Are Flutter apps native? I think so.

I am a Helix user myself, but markdown and text are a bit different from code, that said, I would love to support modal editing in the future. I do think that some features can be added for just "insert" mode (which is the only mode at the moment) that can enhance editing, for example: jump to a word, press any buttons with a label(vimium style), expand + shrink semantic selection etc. I need to work on Shelv full-time to justify adding vim or helix motions to egui TextEdit, vote with you money I guess, oh wait, I don't have a way to actually recieve money...

Not at the moment (besides crash reporting), I'm not fundamentally opposed to collecting statistics, because it is hard to know if a feature is even used without some observability, but I do think it can be done with privacy in mind (at least anonymizing and being mindful of where the data is stored). Probably in the future, however, when and if I add monetization, I'll likely start collecting emails associated with a purchase and/or install