Creators Drowning in Disconnected Tools
Independent creators and professionals are struggling with a proliferation of specialized, often disconnected, tools for text-based tasks. They desire simpler, more integrated solutions that address common workflows like writing, research, organization, and visual representation, without the complexity of existing options. This leads to wasted time, frustration, and a desire for more streamlined, user-friendly alternatives.
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“Could you add a feature to display line numbers? Since many editing or viewing tasks require quick navigation to specific locations based on line numbers, having them visible would be very convenient. Also, could you add a "Help" or "GitHub" button to make it easier…”
It would be amazing if you added support for ALL of the below: https://markdown.org/tools/diagrams Thanks!
“Description Hi, I just discovered PDFCraft today, and after trying it out, I think it’s a great app. It runs smoothly and has many practical features. Since I review drawings frequently, I often use the callout text box markup. However, I couldn’t find an option to change the text size (if this feature is already available, I may have missed it). The default text size works well for A4 and A3 drawings, but on larger sheets like A2, A1, and A0, the text becomes too small and difficult to read. Wo”
thanks man. Yeah it is such a neat API [re: I built a small library for highlighting text and adding notes on any webpage]
“First and foremost thank you for all the time and effort you've put into building this project! The drawing tool works, but it currently faces a few performance and visual limitations that hinder the user experience: Input latency and canvas flickering: There is a noticeable delay between mouse click/pen input and the stroke rendering, along with full canvas flickering after each action. Lack of anti aliasing: Rendered lines appear jagged and pixelated, which degrades the overall visual fidelity”
“Its done (enough) and ive now published the model. Feel free to modify it as you see fit. would love to see it done for other countries. I am extemely inexperienced when it comes to coding. i did use AI for a good majority of the software. it runs well for me and i tested on multiple pc's without issues. If you do encounter any please let me know, ill try to maintain it as best as i can. I more so just wanted to share it as a groundwork for other people to work from. Here is the link to the”
I’m building a small tool that turns a sentence into a first draft for things like carousels, ads, quotes, tips, announcements, and polls. The goal is to help someone get from a…
“Description Currently can't drag tags to second monitor and save it as new workspace. Ticket details | | | | | | | App | PhotoCraft | | Type | Feature Request | | Reported by | notabot (Discord username: notabot 92732) — Discord user ID 1547321908671025274 | | Submitted | 2026 10 18 20:19:53 UTC | | Discord server | ArtCraft ( 1359579021108842617 ) | | Submitted from channel | 1558917176453374102 | | Submission ID | TR DSD2JC78AZ | <sub Submitted through Discord by notabot and created by the Tic”
“I think you're underestimating this. I released a GUI app in Rust earlier this year, and I already feel like it was a headache because there was pretty much no way to avoid dynamically linking a bunch of stuff, at which point any confidence of it working across various distros went out the window, so I had to settle for an AppImage as the only binary that I distributed. I wasn't even trying to target Windows or MacOS but I have to assume that would complicate things at least as much.I'm not sayi”
“Nice work keeping the transcription and polishing separate, that flexibility is what makes tools like this actually usable long term. Native menu bar app with notarized builds is a nice touch, most side projects never bother with that part [re: I brought my open-source Linux dictation tool to macOS]”
“I never heart of zettelflow I will check it now [re: What do you use for charts in your notes? Thinking of building a plugin, but not if a good one already exists]”
“ohhh, nice, I use mermaid alot and I did not notice that they have charts usually I use shadcn charts and recharts in my projects, nice. [re: What do you use for charts in your notes? Thinking of building a plugin, but not if a good one already exists]”
“I used to use charts but it was not enough, so I implemented a base view call dashboard Its a feature of the plugin ZettelFlow [re: What do you use for charts in your notes? Thinking of building a plugin, but not if a good one already exists]”
“Hi @SSShooter, and thank you for Mind Elixir. It is a pleasure to work with: no runtime dependencies, a clean data model and a documented API made it possible to evaluate it seriously for a large open source project in very little time. Context eXeLearning is an open source (AGPL) authoring tool used by teachers to create educational content: websites, SCORM packages, EPUB and so on. It has a mind map editor inside its TinyMCE text editor, which has been based on the old mindmaps app for years.”
“I've been using the Charts plugin from phibr0 for a couple years now, it gets the job done but the lack of updates is starting to show. Mobile rendering is hit or miss and dark theme support is basically nonexistent without hacking the CSS yourself The property-pulling feature you're describing is the real killer app here, that's the one thing that always makes me reach for Dataview and then immediately regret it when I'm staring at a wall of javascript. If you can make that synt”
“Markdown slides are a brilliant idea, but the tools often get in the way: Obsidian’s core Slides plugin feels too limited, while Marp can turn a simple presentation into an exercise in technical details and scripting. PowerPoint is great for designing slides. Markdown is great for writing, structuring ideas, and revising the content. I wanted a visual way to work on a presentation while keeping the content in an ordinary Markdown file. Obsidian’s built-in Slides can show the note, but I was miss”
“I miss Calendarium (It still exists but not all features work), it was fantastic. Mostly I miss the import feature from Fantasy Calendar. I just wanted to put an open request out there to someone with more skill to me to make a new/updated version for the community. Alternatively, I may just not know about another plugin, so if you have any suggestions those would be welcome. Ill give you a big kiss. :* submitted by /u/TactileTangerine [link] [comments]”
“Thanks! Yeah I've put a lot of thought into small incremental UI changes slowly over time. Making stuff work in both desktop and mobile is a headache sometimes. [re: [Showoff Saturday] I attempted to make the best blackjack basic strategy and card counting tool, close to 3 million hands played so far.]”
“Hey everyone, I work in healthcare and I’m building a small patient education project called ClearPath. The idea is to give people something they can go through on their phone before a procedure: illustrations, short explanations, and a few questions to help identify things they might want to discuss with their doctor. There are two prototypes—carotid surgery and varicose vein treatment: link Could you try either one and tell me where it gets confusing, boring, or difficult to use? I’m especiall”
“I was reading brown's rust book and they have this cool feature that lets you highlight stuff and leave notes while reading. I wanted something similar on a site I'm building, but the libs I found were either too complex or too simple and still a pain to set up, so I made one. Heavily inspired by the simplicity and DX of sonner . You only need annotate('#article') and that's basically it. It saves to localStorage or your own backend. Cool thing is that it uses the css highlig”
“I’m a designer and art director building Kaido , a photo-book maker. I’ve travelled a lot and have far too many photos; now that I have kids, I want books of them too. Beautiful books, without laying out every page by hand. The product goal is a complete, editable first book in one minute, with care put into the layout and typography. The grid adapts to the photos’ proportions. The app helps with an initial selection and similar shots, then keeps how many photos you include and how much space th”
“I'm on the Myth Engine team. This is one of our free tutorials with the engine taken out, so it works in any engine. The code is plain JavaScript. Picture a brass frame on a dark wooden table. Eight cream Tiles sit in it, out of order, around one empty square, the Blank. A card beside the frame shows the Goal: 1 2 3, 4 5 6, 7 8, and the Blank last. 5 4 2 7 _ 3 8 1 6 You can slide the Tiles home by hand. Or you can press Solve. A count on the card climbs to 20, and the Tiles stay still. Then”
“Oh, on that use case TinyMCE is fine actually. So is CkEditor, QuillJS, Tiptap ... But I would classify them as rich text editors that output HTML, which is not really what I'm trying to achieve. [re: Rethinking Embeddable Email Editors]”
Cortex Graph [re: What plugins are you using and can’t live without?]
“I understand this kind of product may not be exactly right for this subreddit, but I still think it deserves some attention, as it's an LLM frontend for local engines in the first place, and can be used for general-purpose chats with LLMs once lore extraction is disabled in the settings. Otaku is built with a focus on three key ideas: maintain writing quality as the story grows; keep the context small , even for long stories, without losing the details that matter; offer high-quality interfa”
“Thanks! ☺️ Agree, my dumbass finds it much easier to see this stuff visually and to keep a working memory of folder structures [re: [ShowOff Saturday] codecity: See any git repo as a 3D city]”
“Thanks for the feedback! 😊 That’s a great suggestion. I’ll keep this in mind! [re: Would you use a tool that turns your ideas into doodle-style visual stories?]”
“I’m working on a “pet project” to help a family member who runs a small house paining business revamp their website. One thing I’d like to add is a scheduling tool. Right now leaning towards Zoom which provides the phone service. I’m open to alternates. Key is to sync with calendars and be low touch. As an extension of that, looking into a barebones CRM or system to capture contact info. Don’t need anything more than that really. Any open source systems you are using or would recommend? Thanks &”
“A community member asks whether VectorCraft has a mockup workflow or function similar to Illustrator. Source: https://discord.com/channels/1359579021108842617/1557517495470915686/1560729842024980545 (2026 10 16). The canonical checkout has no dedicated Mockup command or documented mockup workflow in docs/gaps.md, docs/roadmap.md or the parity documents. Existing perspective/envelope tools should not be described as full mockup support. No matching open issue or PR was found in targeted mockup se”
“Feature request Please consider adding more control over the background and accessibility themes of the Markdown WYSIWYG editor. Requested improvements Allow users to customize the editor background color (for example, with a color picker or a documented hexadecimal setting), or provide additional background variants such as a darker, near black option. Consider offering additional colorblind friendly themes or palettes, with suitable contrast and visual distinctions that do not rely on color al”
“hey, so i got tired of ordering two sizes of everything and sending one back, so i built a thing. its a chrome extension called Sizer. you put in your measurements once (or just a couple of clothes that already fit you, like “zara 38 fits me”), then when you open a product page it puts your size right under the size picker. it reads the brand’s own size chart, the fabric (stretch or not) and whatever the page says like “runs small”. theres a “why this size” button too, so you can see why it pick”
“exactly why i made draftboard.space lmao [re: i am starting to realize how much wok happens between the actual work]”
“It's finaly saturday, and I've been working on a spellchecker plugin for TinyMCE called vlm-spellchecker . The idea came from a separate project of mine, Wiki Language Models , which generates statistical language models from Wikipedia dumps. I created that project because I wanted a basic, old-fashioned spelling correction and word prediction tool that doesn't use AI to try to interpret what you're writing and return some ass AI response. So vlm-spellchecker is a small client pr”
“I wanted guests to understand how a hostel fitted together before they arrived. Photos showed individual rooms, but looking at each room separately didn’t tell you how the space actually connected. That was the thing I wanted to show. To model the hostel, I initially cobbled things together using SketchUp, dimensions, and photos. Along the way, I tried free tools that weren’t suitable and looked at paid tools that cost way more than I could justify. Eventually, I did what I always do: I retreate”
“Anyone else's keep generating interactive UI unprompted for the hell of it? I love it lmao. I do stuff with recommendation systems, I also just.. yap and am a descriptive person. I keep getting things like this in chat that I didn't ask for and have no practical purpose except being extremely amusing. There's no real algorithm determining the outputs of this, just a heads up lol. It's just a fancy concept. But lol? submitted by /u/Gavdoggo [link] [comments]”
“the timing on those text reveals actually sits in a nice pocket, most motion graphics tools make everything feel so rigid but yours has a looseness that works watching the demo i wonder how much control you get over easing curves, cause that's usually where these things fall apart when you try to customize i'd mess around with it for some client work i've got coming up, color me interested in that early access [re: Text motion graphics for your raw video]”
“I just spent 30 min in Claude describing a new product and asked it to generate screen shots. It applied our style guide and gave me something in minutes that beat wireframes for communicating an idea--buttons actaully worked. I spent hours and hours defining and making wireframes in the past--never again [re: How to practice wireframing?]”
“Hello all, bit of a tricky question here. I have been exploring a lot of the available word count/heatmap tracker plugins recently, but the problem is that most of them only start counting after they have been installed, and there doesn't seem to be a way for them to go through the vault's previous history and retroactively populate how many words were written in past days. Is this something that is even feasible to do? Furthermore, a lot of the stat related plugins don't seem to syn”
“Creator lets you organize your notes into folders, show the growth of your ideas through three stages: Seeding, Budding, and Evergreen. Your digital garden doesn't have to be a collection of finished articles - it can be a living space that grows with you. Try it yourself Live demo: https://mdfriday.com/demo/creator Sample vault: Mira's Plot How it works Download MDFriday Publish plugin 26.10.5 and enable it Right-click the Mira's Plot folder and choose "Open in MDFriday" C”
“Dont know what swokei is. But I am in the process of building a scraper that does what this post says. Might be time to reverse engineer swokei if it handles visual analysis or bad layout and look. That's the roadblock I am at. [re: How I Make $22K/Month Just Redesigning Existing Websites]”
“Huh I too just made one of these in like 10 minutes in OpenCode. I have no interest in sharing it though because it's not exactly complicated and its tailored to what I want and how my stuff runs. And if you're making a proxy you might as well include other features like setting sampling parameters and Reasoning Effort to bypass whatever the tool on the other end decides it wants. [re: Reverse proxy for LLMs which can wake and/or shut-down your inference server in response to incoming re”
“Description 1. Turn on the horizontal ruler. 2. Click the ruler to add a Center or Right Tab marker. 3. Type some text, hit the Tab key, and try to type a second sentence on the same line. Expected: The text should jump and align perfectly to the marker I set on the ruler. Actual: It completely ignores the marker and just drops a few regular spaces. Ticket details | | | | | | | App | WordCraft | | Type | Feature Request | | Reported by | Av (Discord username: o72s) — Discord user ID 100258009655”
“Honestly, the global graph is mostly visual eye candy. It looks great on screenshots, but nobody actually uses a massive web to get real work done. The only practical uses I found are keeping a small local graph open (depth 1 or 2) while drafting, or occasionally filtering for orphan notes to spot disconnected ideas. For actual day-to-day work, simple MOC index notes beat the visual graph every time. [re: Hello question about the graphs views]”
“I’m trying to make a new back plate for a speaker and i was going to use tinkercad to try and make it. the issue I’m having is making anything on the mobile site is obviously an exercise in frustration but I don’t have access to my desktop computer at the moment. I thought about AI but I think ChatGPT will only give you a python script to import into freecad or similar. Anything to be done on mobile? thanks in advance! image of the drawing to gauge difficulty. submitted by /u/velosau”
“nice, the overlay window with the small gain theorem on top of the lorem ipsum notes is a fun combo, feels like exactly what actual lecture workflow looks like plugin concept is smart though, sometimes you just want the content and not the chrome around it [re: Just released Borderless Tab! An Obsidian plugin to make your tabs borderless]”
“The problem with windows and spaces (which the fractal dives in this video are) that you jump to, is every time you lose context and relationship. People try to fix this with these little "minimaps" that number your spaces, but that is also a loss of context, then you have visual zooming interfaces which are completely lawless and just create total chaos.Fractals are great, but no matter how closely I look at a fractal branch on a fractal limb on a fractal tree I can see the prior item, the pare”
“Thanks for checking it out and sharing this feedback! This was just a personal project for a long time, so knowing that it's bringing value to strangers on the internet is so cool. Images isn't high on our priority list, but we'll take another look and see what it would take to bump it up. Integrations have also been on the back burner. If you let us know which ones would be most valuable, we can certainly prioritize them. Any specific privacy questions we can answer? High level - we”
“Such a great idea! Can you please guide me a bit on how to implement this? [re: QuickAdd Suggestion - Thank You!]”
“What it is: one private link per project. The client fills in a guided brief (no account, no password), you get the brief back in one piece with the questions it left open, then a dated plan between your start date and your deadline. Reviews, approvals and final files happen on the same link. Who I'm looking for: freelance graphic designers (logo, branding, packaging, social, print) who will start a client project in the next few weeks. What I'd ask: run one real project through it, then”
“I can see that not including markdown or implementing in a meaningful way was a mistake. So that's what I am working on now. It will be included before the release of the plugin. Thank you for the input [re: I made Worldsmith and I need some help]”
“This is pretty slick. Between this and the "artCraft" apps, Adobe's in trouble. One thing I'd love to see is any kind of integration with twain scanners. So much of our work is scan doc into Adobe, edit it. [re: Proview — An open-source PDF and image viewer with markup, handwritten signatures and OCR]”
“I hope you like it and please share your feedback after you try it, and if you have any suggestion for a new feature or use case [re: ImageMagick plugin: optimize images from inside your notes, in bulk, and keep your links updated]”
“Oh this is lovely, I'll check it out! So far I've just been dropping my jaypegs into OptiImage [re: ImageMagick plugin: optimize images from inside your notes, in bulk, and keep your links updated]”
“> The entire point of technology is to provide shortcuts.Convenience not shortcuts, they're very different.> Compilers are shortcuts to creativity. So are IDEs.I argue that they're not shortcuts, but convenient ways for making you more productive. And compilers made use productive 1000x not AI that allegedly made us 10x(and it's actually not)”
“Description Number 1 a option to import ASL Files for styles, Number 2 custom fonts Ticket details | | | | | | | App | PhotoCraft | | Type | Feature Request | | Reported by | Icy (Discord username: icy2171.) — Discord user ID 1471680391550210162 | | Submitted | 2026 10 15 08:05:06 UTC | | Discord server | ArtCraft ( 1359579021108842617 ) | | Submitted from channel | 1558917176453374102 | | Submission ID | TR Q08NH97QBV | <sub Submitted through Discord by Icy and created by the Ticket Relay integ”