Be sure to visit the Update History to see how we got here.

Roadmap

Minders is still a new app and there are many new features still planned.

However, I need your help. Let me know which features you’d like to see next. (See bottom of page for an email address.) If there’s enough interest, I’ll prioritize that feature to make sure it gets in sooner.

Here’s a list of features I’m thinking of adding next, in no particular order:

Backlinks. Now that you can link to other posts, the app should be able to show when a post has one or more backlinks.
Audio recording. Dictate journal entries directly into the app.
More customization options. I know you’d all really love to be able to customize how your posts look. This means customizable fonts and colors.
Improved navigation UI. I’d like the app to feel more like a “browser” with forward/backward navigation with a history. It would be great if you could open multiple windows or have a split screen view to make it easier to make connections between posts.
More options for embedded links and images. It would be great if you could embed an image or link preview within the text body instead of having it at the very end of the post.
Algorithm-based main feed. It would be great if the app could automatically bubble up interesting posts from your timeline.
Rich text formatting. Markdown formatting is available today, but I know that UI-based text formatting is important to users.
Option to compress images in place. If you use Minders a lot for storing media, your journal can get quite large. Sometimes you don’t need high fidelity images, so it would be great to choose to compress images.

These are now in the app:

Better threading UI. Threads will display in full in your stream when you reply to a post.
Calendar or Month-based view
Zettelkasten-like post connections
Export to JSON or binary format. This is definitely needed to help you save a backup or if you would like to do processing on your posts.
Animated GIFs!
Mac only, for now: Compressed view. Once you have a ton of posts, browsing everything quickly is more difficult when posts are expanded, so I’d like to add an option to “compress” each post that you see so that more can fit on a screen at a time.
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