01 Signed Windows builds
Right now Windows shows a blue warning screen and you have to click More info and then Run anyway. It is not hard, but it is the moment most people give up. A certificate fixes it.
Roadmap
What we are building, and what we will never build.
These are directions, not promises or deadlines. Anything new has to keep the daily loop, the plain Markdown files and the low setup cost intact, or it does not go in.
Working on now
02 Signed and notarised macOS builds
Same problem, worse on Mac, because recent versions removed the easy bypass. Until we can sign, we are shipping a zip with instructions written properly instead of buried in a dropdown.
03 An editor that feels good to write in
A thicker cursor, selection and highlighting that behave the way you expect, and your own font and size. Small things, but you are looking at this page every day.
04 The first workshop cohort
Free, virtual, for high school students. Taught by our team and reviewed by our advisory board once it is seated.
05 A real domain
We are on a free subdomain today. A proper domain is cheap and it is one of the first things a grant would pay for.
Next
01 Plugins for slash commands
A way for people to add their own slash commands to the editor, so Daydock can stay almost empty while still doing the specific thing you need.
02 Onboarding that does not add setup
The first five minutes should teach you the daily and weekly loop without turning into a configuration screen.
03 Export, including PDF
Your notes are already portable because they are Markdown. Export is about handing a document to someone else.
04 Attachments in the Assets folder
The folder is created today but the app does not manage what is in it yet.
05 More complete keyboard navigation
Everything reachable without the mouse, and a command palette that covers the whole app.
Waiting on funding.
These two are the things people ask us for most, and both need real money to build. We are not going to promise them on a maybe, so they are tied to a number instead. Hit the number, we build the thing.
AT $10,000 Daydock on your phone
A mobile app, free like the desktop one.
The single most common thing people tell us is that the day happens away from a desk. A phone app is the difference between writing your day down and remembering that you meant to. It is free when it ships, the same as everything else we make.
AT $20,000 A hosted version you buy once
Your notebook in a browser, on a server, with lifetime access for one payment.
Some people cannot install software, or want their notebook on a school Chromebook. So we will build a hosted web version and sell it the only way we are willing to: you pay once, you get lifetime access, and the price is what the servers cost us. No margin and no subscription. This is not how we plan to make money. If a sponsor covers it, or a funder gives us permission to put extra grant money toward it, we will give students lifetime access for free wherever we can.
The hosted version stays open source and your notebook stays plain Markdown you can download any time, so if this foundation ever stops, you can run it yourself. See the full budget
Ideas we like but have not committed to
- Packaging for distribution channels such as the Arch User Repository
- Better conflict handling and recovery messages when a notebook is synced across machines
- Published guides from the workshop curriculum, free for anyone
Things Daydock is not trying to become
- A project management suite
- A database of tagged and categorised tasks
- Streaks, points, badges or anything that keeps score of your failures
- A social productivity platform
- Anything that requires an account or hosted storage to work
Want something on this list
Feature requests genuinely change what we build next, especially from people using Daydock every day. For a substantial change, open an issue first so we can talk about the problem before anyone writes code.