Introduction of a unhosted app

[Ugg Rock]

Hi guys,

with this post I want to introduce you a kind of unhosted application, I developed recently. It is called TagSpaces and I use it together with owncloud as a replacement for Evernote. It is bassically a firefox add-on, which provides you a offline web based interface to you local files. So if this sounds interesting to you, I am keen to here your feedback. TagSpaces can be downloaded from http://tagspaces.org

best regards,
UR

[ad...@nimbusbase.com]

This is one of the coolest demo of file access + html5 I've seen since Brackets. Unfortunately pdf viewing doesn't work for me on the Mac in firefox for some reason.

I don't know your firefox usage rate but I think if you get this into the chrome store, you can get a lot more adopters. 

Ray

[Jan-Christoph Borchardt]

Any chance you can make this a web app instead of browser-specific?

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[Ugg Rock]

Hi Ray,

actually there is an alpha version for Chrome (see http://tagspaces.org/downloads/), but I am afraid that Google is currently not accepting extensions in the Chrome store, which are accessing local files ....

PDF viewing should actually work, the problem could be that you don't have a PDF viewer in your browser. I can recommend you pdf.js which meanwhile is integrated in the current Firefox release.

Ugg

[Ugg Rock]

What do you mean exactly with web app? Since the UI is completely HTML/Javascript based, the main challenge with other platforms/browsers remains the access to the local files system.  If you mean a real web based application, I am considering writing an app for owncloud, but my time for the project is limited so it will probably take some time...

[Jan-Christoph Borchardt]

Regarding file system/storage, did you look at remoteStorage yet? It actually started in the unhosted movement, and is now an open standard for per-user storage. See here how to implement it in your app: http://remotestorage.io/integrate/

[Ugg Rock]

You are bringing me to an interesting ideas... Can I find somewhere a live example of remotestorage based app?

[Jan-Christoph Borchardt]

Yup, there’s an example app at https://myfavoritedrinks.5apps.com

A simple writing app Jorin and I wrote is at http://litewrite.github.com/litewrite

And you can get a remoteStorage account at http://heahdk.net
(More apps and providers at https://github.com/RemoteStorage/remotestorage.io/wiki/Apps-and-Providers)

Everything is developed in the open, check out http://github.com/remotestorage if you want to dive in. Most remoteStorage contributors are actually on this list too I think.

[ad...@nimbusbase.com]

Hey Ugg,

I downloaded and installed the crx for the Chrome version, it doesn't pop up a window to select a local filesystem for me.

Yeah, I didn't know Google doesn't accept extensions accessing local files, it's definitely a pain. App adoption is pretty hot on the Chrome Store, my apps on there has 300-40,000 adopters.

I can't view html and any other type of files either in the firefox version, added an issue.

If you want to turn this into a web app, NimbusBase is also an alternative. Instead of accessing local folders (which I actually think is better than evernote), you can have it directly like evernote and create new entries and store the binary on Dropbox or GDrive and the metadata in NimbusBase data structure. 

But I think your native bindings are definitely the strong point of the app, and you should probably get more users by building html5 native apps with native wrappers on Win/Mac.  https://github.com/adobe/brackets-shell is a good one.

Ray