Hi everyone I was thinking of creating a backend module that has functione for a note taking(search, sort, etc). So anyone can implement a ui on top of it.
I have some basic understanding of rust (made a just-working chip-8 emulator). But I’ve never used SQL or other database.
Is this plausible? Is there a similar project that I can use as reference? What are the mistakes I should avoid?
Note that Obsidian parses all the files and uses the browser’s built in database to store indexed metadata and links between note files. It’s how they have a responsive search function. You could either use sqlite, ad-hoc your way with flat-files.
Of course, you could parse, walk links, and search through all files on the fly all the time. Text files at personal-notes scale should cache really well, and it might still be faster without the browser-tech overhead, but it’s a toss-up