Jade is an experimental note-taking canvas for developing networked thought visually. I used it as a playground to explore the user experience of canvas tools for thinking and the technology of canvas interfaces.

I researched topics including but not limited to:

• Canvas-based interactions
• Rich-text on a canvas
• Plugin-first software architecture

If you want to try Jade, the easiest way is by visiting the hosted demo on my website. Also you might want read the user-facing post.

Since I've moved on to a new project, tableOS, and am no longer developing Jade, I want to share the code publicly, for anyone interested to study the technology and concepts.

The code is neither guaranteed to run, nor will I provide direct support. But if you have questions about how something works or are interested in the UI design, feel free to open issues, I will consider writing posts to talk about them.

Lastly, Jade was inspired by Muse and Semilattice. I would like to extend my sincere thanks to them.

Clone this repository on your development machine and cd into it.

Switch your Node.js to version 16 using n or other manager. This project does not work with newer Node.js versions.

yarn
yarn web:start

Visit https://localhost:8140/ in your browser.

Or you can start the desktop version by (Warning: It's likely to fail.)

yarn
yarn electron:build
yarn electron:start

• Always make sure there's only one version of each prosemirror-* package installed in yarn.lock. If there's multiple, you may get false positive type errors, and your app may crash.

If you find this project useful,