## Inspiring software
### Principles
- Local-first
- Open source
- Open company
- Federated
- Cooperative
### Qualia
| | ☃️ | 🔥 |
| ---- | ---- | ---- |
| | Centralized | Decentralized |
| | Siloed | Federated |
| | Online-only | Local-first |
| | Closed source | Open source |
| | Copyright | Copyleft<br>Cool licenses here |
| | | Cooperative |
| Attention | Addictive | Calm |
| Effort | Over the top | Just enough |
| | Meaningless | Purposeful |
| Scope | Suite | Tool |
| Clarity | Opaque | Transparent |
| Performance | Slow | Fast |
| | Bloated | Svelte |
| | Simple | Complex |
| | | Craft |
| | Decorative | Utilitarian |
| | Wasteful | Efficient |
| | | Opinionated |
| | Trendy | Timeless |
| | Pixel-perfect | Wabisabi |
| | Island | System |
| | | Integrated |
| | | Protocol |
| | | Experience |
| | | Quality |
| | | Rigorous |
| | | Feeling |
| | Sinister | Good |
| | Venture-backed | |
| | | Soulful |
| | Individualistic | Community |
| | Inaccessible | Accessible |
| | Database | Flatfiles |
| | | Personal |
| | | Self-hosted |
| | SEO | IA |
| | Instrumented | No analytics |
| | Single-page app | Multi-page app |
| | Overengineered | KISS |
| | | Open formats |
| | | Microformats |
| | | Semantic |
| | | Multi-form |
[[Website Theory]]
## Inspiring software
- Things
- 11ty
- Zotero
- Raindrop
- Drafts
- Tldraw
- Excalidraw
- 750 Words
- Knowledge Futures
- Fermat
- Cannoli
- Cursor
- Muse
- Mermaid
- Markdown
- JMAP
- Readwise
- Instapaper
- Airtable
- Vale
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## Interesting software
### by category
### unsorted
- Arc
- Figma
- Github
- Roam
- Glitch
- System
- Dovetail
- QDA
- Aha
- UserZoom
## Meh
- Medium
# Tools
[[Tiddlywiki]]
[[Tiddlymap]]
[[Obsidian]]
[[Digital Ocean]]
[[Federated Wiki]]
[[Alfred]]
[[LinkedIn Learning]]
[[Zotero]]
[[Discourse]]
[[Hugo]]
[[Jamstack]]
[[Ulysses]]
[[Jekyll]]
[[Arena]]
[[Roam Research]]
Related concepts?
[Instruments](/instruments.html "view")
[Appliances](/appliances.html "view")
[Systems](/systems.html "view") ([Seepages](/seepages.html "view"))
[Glue](/glue.html "view") [Tape](/tape.html "view") [Pipes](/pipes.html "view")
[Games](/games.html "view")
[Band-aids](/band-aids.html "view") [Jerry-rigging](/jerry-rigging.html "view")
[Workflows](/workflows.html "view")
[Maps](/maps.html "view")
[Word Processor](/word-processor.html "view")
[Summarization](/summarization.html "view")
Tools I use
[Federated Wiki](/federated-wiki.html "view") [github ](https://github.com/fedwiki/wiki "https://github.com/fedwiki/wiki")
[Tools for Transcription](/tools-for-transcription.html "view")
[Lifelogging](/lifelogging.html "view")
To check out
TagTeam [website ](http://tagteam.harvard.edu "http://tagteam.harvard.edu")
TiddlyWiki [website ](http://tiddlywiki.com "http://tiddlywiki.com")
Bytebeat (built into FW) [website ](http://canonical.org/~kragen/bytebeat/ "http://canonical.org/~kragen/bytebeat/") and Glitch [website ](http://naivesound.com/glitch "http://naivesound.com/glitch")
Considering
[Scanners](/scanners.html "view")
Image/asset server (maybe with thumbnail service?? maybe integrated with dropbox?)
Scratchpad
[R.A.C.I.](/raci.html "view") (Responsible Accountable Consulted Informed)
[Eisenhower Matrix](/eisenhower-matrix.html "view")
[S.M.A.R.T. Goals](/smart-goals.html "view")
[5 Whys](/5-whys.html "view")
[Principles (Ray Dalio)](/principles-ray-dalio.html "view") 👿
[Tactic Star](/tactic-star.html "view")
[Procedural Generation](/procedural-generation.html "view")
[Bureaucratic Intelligence](/bureaucratic-intelligence.html "view")