#system projects

I'm especially interested in getting folks who 1) like to journal, or would like to start journaling, as that'll be the major focus of PluraLog and 2) have used other system apps like Simply Plural and Octocon or non system specific apps like Obsidian or private Discord servers.

We're still VERY focused on this being an offline app (would need to go online just to install it and to install updates - which you would have to manually choose to check for, I don't want the app online any more than it has to be.) And password protected by default.

As we were thinking today on pain points and app preferences, we also decided we're going to make the language PluraLog uses fully customizable. Want the app to ask if you want to add an alter? Sure that's the phrasing it'll use. Prefer headmate? Sure we can use that. System, pluran, collective? Yep can do. Your own personal terminology? Absolutely. Want it to refer to you all with the ampersand? (You&?) Cool. Never want to see the ampersand again? Also cool.

And doing that wouldn't be that hard to code. Though the first version will most likely just have preset values, fully custom fields will be in a later version.

Here's what the home screen currently looks like:

But I'm also working today on the system display and organization page. I was initially thinking that this page would have your collective name at the top, the same as the greeting. But what if you want the main page to greet you individually? What if you don't have a system name? So I'm working on the personalization aspect of the settings page. It'll have an area for a system name. But I want to give options for the greeting: System name, current fronter name, and custom name. I'm not sure how I'm going to handle co-fronting situations though. I will need to have some kind of numerical limit to names for the greeting or it could end up being much too long and pushing the buttons too far down. And then of course you can leave the greeting name empty and it'll just say Welcome!

Which option would you go for?