Velvet

How exactly do you introduce something to the world exactly? Typically others would tell you “just do.” which is pretty simple. Right?

There are many ways to go about this. Especially when some of the best ways are with a demo video rather than a written blog or something.

I want to kickstart this loosely. Casually and raw. My thoughts, my feelings. Here. Read this as it comes out of my head as I type. Disorganized? Maybe.

So what even is the project?

The name itself has not yet been solidified. So let's skip that for now. Humor me for a second.

Remember not that long ago, realistically when the world had a device for everything? Something for your music. Something for photos. Something for notes. Your bag would oftne be filled with various things to solve a very spesific problem, right? Not really a Swiss-army-tool to do it all. Sure sometimes that was in our bags, but more often than not you would use a tool designed for the task, right? where is this going?

I'm not here to say inconvenience is better. Clearly smartphones are the primary tool we have and use and they aren't going anywhere. Home PCs or laptops, similarly are extremely powerful to be able to do so many different things without much effort or friction.

Sometimes intentional inconvenience is not so bad. Hear me out.

I'm a big pen and paper nerd. I love how tangible it is. I can see it. Make It. Touch it and put it in a binder or folder, my pocket, my backpack. Anywhere really! It's offline. I don't need a paid subscription to reflect on this piece of paper with whatever I wrote. I don't feel distracted or compelled to worry about hastags or even titles. I can just do my own thing and move on.

Some of you may be really into tech and the solution for you is an app, or digital tool of some kind. That's okay, I'm not here to tell you that you're wrong. Keep doing you!

I want to be able to reach out to those who share similar woes to me and maybe felt like they didn't have a choice or a solution. Sometimes the existing solutions are paid, or not exactly obtainable or open.

So paper is open source, what?

Some of the core philosophy behind FOSS, is pretty neat. I kinda want to adapt something very similar to the analog world. Why not? I guess I never saw this really done before or executed in the way I've been looking for and I've been too hard on myself that releasing this openly would flop or be useless.

With how many other ideas are out there, hey why not? I'll add my drop in the bucket. Whatever. It'll be out there and at the end of the day somebody will find this helpful or useful and that's awesome.

like comment subscribe?

Not exactly. I don't want to do newsletters. I don't even want to make a dedicated blog or page for this. I want this to be pretty raw and open as you can tell from how informal this is. So I'd like to continue it as-is

At best I will collect everything I can into a repo probably on Codeberg. That's my current solution and idea.

This might get buried by thousands and millions of others but that's okay. I think some ideas shine all by themselves and because of that, I won't even include hastags here. If it develops itself, then it'll do that.

In practice I should share more about how I go about this project personally and worry about the documentation, and eveything else later.

Does that make sense?