Tiny Moments

Introduction

Tiny Moments is a free, minimalist journal / microblogging app that you can use for yourself or with your close friends. It's tiny enough that 13 of these would fit inside a floppy disk! It's meant to run on the Delta Chat messenger which is available for iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux, and even Ubuntu Touch. You can also use it on monocles chat and Cheogram as well! You can use it for:

• Logging your day.
• Creating a private blog for a circle of friends.
• Posting occasional updates for the whole group.

Everything is automatically encrypted. The data can only accessed by you or, optionally, your friends. (This is guaranteed in Delta Chat, but you have to make sure the group chat is encrypted on monocles and Cheogram.) Offline-first, no subscriptions, no ads. This app cannot connect directly to the internet so no telemetry either! You can find the code on Codeberg.

Anti-capitalist software

This is anti-capitalist software, released for free use by individuals and organizations that do not operate by capitalist principles.

Translations

• Tagalog (me)
• Italian (https://codeberg.org/pppmint)
• Farsi (https://codeberg.org/farooqkz)
• French (rako)
• Brazilian Portuguese (https://codeberg.org/annonlive)

Single player mode

Make sure you have Delta Chat installed. For single player mode, you can simply send the file to yourself and that's basically it! Everything is saved automatically, encrypted, and synced between your devices as well if you have the same Delta Chat account set up on them.

Multiplayer mode

If you'd like to use this with friends, you can send the file to the group, and it will work the same way. Anyone in the group chat are able to use the app and see everyone else's posts. It works offline, so you don't have to be connected to the internet whenever you make a post. It's able to sync automatically when your device is connected.

And the data is still encrypted and only you and the people in the group are able to see the data! (This is guaranteed in Delta Chat, but you have to make sure the group chat is encrypted on monocles and Cheogram.) Additionally, the data is stored on people's devices and not in the cloud so the chance of things leaking is much lower.

Styling text

Markdown is an easy way of specifying rich text. I find it especially useful in Tiny Moments because I often create lists of things that I did during the day. Take the following piece of text for example:

- Had a great time at the park     
- Called a friend 
- Napped

Wouldn't it be better if it was rendered nicely like this?

• Had a great time at the park
• Called a friend
• Napped

Or perhaps an ordered list like this?

1. Fennel
2. Scheme
3. Interlisp

It will do just that because having an asterisk, a dash, or a number with a dot at the beginning of a line is Markdown! Markdown allows you to specify a lot of styles, but I think only a handful of styles make sense in a short-form journal. So I figured I would write the parser myself to use as little code as possible, but also to have fun figuring out how to write one. I've never written one before though so expect bugs! 🥲 Right now, it supports, bolding, italicizing, paragraphs, inline code, unordered lists, and ordered lists at the moment.

You can italicize things by surrounding text with an *asterisk*  or with _underscores_. You can bold text by adding **two asterisks** or __two underscores__.

Finally, blockquotes are also supported by having a ">" at the beginning of the line:

> This is a blockquote

Hopefully in the future I can add ordered lists as well and also allow making lists of lists. Anyway, I hope you like it!