A classic thing for me to build when I am bored is note taking, time tracking or wiki software. I often create some mixture of the three. If I'm not doing that I am cleaning up this site or my personal website.
The last few years those projects have landed in the GitHub repo icco/etu. The current iteration of Etu is a command line journal that uses a Notion database as its backend.
I bet you're wondering why the heck I would build something like this. Time Tracking is a classic nerd snipe. Check out merveilles/Time-Travelers or Feltron Annual Reports for others lost in this rabbit hole.
In reality etu has been a long project. The first commit was in 2019, and randomly an idea catches my brain and I code it up.
Its current evolution is Go project that uses Bubble Tea for a simple to use CLI. In past iterations I just launched vim and captured the output buffer, but I found the UX to be faster if I just launched the UI myself. The downside of my design is the Notion API is incredibly slow.
I did this work as a part of #decemberadventure, and a general want to fix complaints I had with the tool. The biggest complaints I had was after I made a post, viewing them was best done by going to Notion. I disliked that. So I rewrote the entire UX to use more off the shelf components, and added new list, view and delete abilities.
I also created a homebrew tap to make installing on multiple machines easily.
Anyways, just wanted to write this up. Hope you're having a happy holidays.
/Nat