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Project Ideas
You might notice that the ideas listed are sometimes vague or incomplete. This is on purpose, as in real-world development, you often need to define the problem and scope your solution before coding officially begins. If you wish to submit a proposal based on these ideas, you are encouraged to contact the mentors on Discord and find out more about the particular suggestion you're looking at.
Desktop features
1. Calendar Database
Calendars are a great way to visualize how things connect to certain dates from any database in AppFlowy. Use them for task management and event planning.
- Expected Outcome: the user can create a calendar page and add an item to a certain date or a range of dates in the calendar.
- Difficulty: High
- Skills Required: Flutter
2. Search
Users write pages in AppFlowy. We’d like to have a search function for them to easily retrieve information from their wikis or notes.
- Expected Outcome: a search function that allows users to search pages based on keywords
- Difficulty: High
- Skills Required: Flutter, Rust
3. Template
People should be able to share their best practices via templates with others. We’d like to enable users to quickly set up a page by using a template and get inspiration from community templates.
- Expected Outcome:
- A template center that allows users to view and clone a template into their workspace
- A system that allows people to propose a new template that can be added to the template center
- Difficulty: Medium
- Skills Required: Flutter, Rust
4. Add to Favorites
Favoriting a page allows users to quickly access it without searching it or clicking through nesting pages.
- Expected Outcome: the user can favorite a page and access it via a “Favorites” section that resides in the navigation panel.
- Difficulty: Medium
- Skills Required: Flutter, Rust
5. Page history
AppFlowy users might want to go back to a previous version of a page, and we’d like to enable page history so that they can do so.
- Expected Outcome: the user can restore a page to a previous version through “Page history”
- Difficulty: High
- Skills Required: Flutter, Rust
CI tools
1. Report Binary Size
We consider binary size as an important metric, although it is easy to overlook. We would like to create some GitHub integrations that would automatically do a release build of a new PR and report the difference in binary size between that PR and the current main branch.
- Expected Outcome: an easy-to-use tool to report binary size
- Difficulty: Easy / Medium
- Skills Required: Flutter, Rust, GitHub API
2. Speed up building the release package
It takes almost 20 minutes to build the AppFlowy release package. It would be nice if we can speed it up using GitHub cache or matrix.
- Expected Outcome: the cost of the time of the PR’s GitHub actions should be reduced
- Difficulty: Easy / Medium
- Skills Required: Flutter, Rust, GitHub API
Tracing performance regressions
1. Tracing performance regressions
Performance could become a key differentiator for AppFlowy. We’d like to keep tracking it. To track it, we need to come up with a metric system. The system includes a set of metrics and a running process that collects results and persists them for analysis.
- Expected Outcome:
- A metric system that measures the performance of AppFlowy
- A working tool that collect results and persists them for analysis
- Difficulty: Medium / High
- Skills Required: Rust
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