Sumit Kumar - Projects

Most "sticky notes" apps for Linux are either abandoned GNOME extensions or an Electron app burning 300MB of RAM to show a text box. I wanted something native-feeling, checklist-first (not just freeform text), and light — so I built it on Tauri instead: a Rust-backed shell around a React frontend, producing an actual small native binary per platform rather than shipping a whole Chromium runtime.

It's a proper checklist-notes app, not just sticky text: create, search (by title or checklist content), duplicate, and delete notes; add/edit/toggle/delete individual checklist items; filter items by all/open/done; mark everything done or reset in one action; and track completion progress per note. Everything's persisted locally in the app's own data directory — no account, no sync service, no cloud dependency.

Modular by design, not just in theory:

• useNotes.ts owns all state management and the Tauri-side data operations
• NotesSidebar.tsx handles the note list, search, sort, and import/export controls
• NoteEditor.tsx is just the checklist editor and bulk actions
• Import/export round-trips notes as JSON, with ID/field normalization on import so merging notes from another machine doesn't collide

Building for Arch Linux means pulling in the full WebKitGTK + AppIndicator stack (webkit2gtk-4.1, libappindicator-gtk3, librsvg, plus the Rust toolchain) before cargo/npm even get involved — that packaging reality is exactly the tax you pay for a genuinely native, genuinely small desktop app instead of another Electron wrapper.