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Just wanna bounce this idea off someone/anyone--
I want to make a little thought journal program.
I want to have metadata tags and a nice way of searching information.
I realise that pen and paper, and that orgmode exists.
I want to write this in a Lisp, and maybe have it as a simple web page accessible by CGI.
Last I checked there existed frameworks like hunchentoot and caveman2.
Does this make sense? Would anyone recommend any resources or avenues of exploration?
looking at this right now
"Lisp is a language for doing what you've been told is impossible".
— Kent Pitman
@dirtycommo well... It's not an answer to your question, but Obsidian kind of does what you're after already, except no webpage. (And you can get it on all your devices using something like Syncthing, which is what I do).
@dirtycommo if your target is the "modern" browser, you might enjoy exploring https://github.com/garbados/spellbook which is written in clojurescript. clojure is a lisp with some very nice features and clojurescript compiles it to javascript
if you're thinking more of a vanilla html plus lisp backend, clojure is often used server side too (but i never have), but it requires a java vm
you could probably make pretty any lisp or scheme be a cgi (or fastcgi) script. not sure what libraries are popular today tho
@dirtycommo also do you already have somewhere in mind to host it?
@pho4cexa yes I have a lot of options about where to host -- why do you ask?
thank you very much for your response 🙏
@dirtycommo ah because i have a vm in a datacenter that i'm not nearly using to its full capacity. i don't really have it set up yet to easily invite all my mufos to build whatever they want but your project seems easy to host and if you had nowhere else for it to live i would offer some space
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