The idea #

The idea I had was making a daemon that holds a “journal” with logs, then you query them either through:

• Direct CURL.
• CLI.
• UI (later).

A log consists of a YAML/JSON file and any amount of adjacent files, such as images or text.

A simple shopping list per example would be:

.
└── shopping_list/
    ├── log.json
    └── list.txt

log.json would (probably) be:

{
  "title": "Shopping list",
  "ID": "randomly generated UUID",
  "files": {
    "txt/plaintext": ["./list.txt"]
  }
}

Format is still to be determined.

If you want the list to also be JSON AND include an image of each product:

.
└── shopping_list/
    ├── log.json
    ├── list.json
    └── images/
        ├── pear.png
        ├── onion.png
        └── soda.png

log.json:

{
  "title": "Shopping list",
  "ID": "randomly generated UUID",
  "files": {
    "txt/json": ["./list.json"],
    "img/png": [
      "./images/pear.png", 
      "./images/onion.png", 
      "./images/soda.png"
    ]
  }
}

“But, why would I use this?” #

Well, superficially (and by how I explained it) it seems useless or just unnecessary, but just imagine for a minute how useful a lightweight daemon that:

• Locally stores data, meaning that if you deploy it in your computer poweroffs don’t cause looses and if you deploy it in a 24/7 unit then you have complete control of your data.
• Can be deployed anywhere.
• Allows you to create ultra lightweight logs with an easy format, which can also be even easier to create with the CLI.
• You can then query these logs by title, ID, date or any other custom property.
• Can be used through direct communication with it, a simple CLI and even UI (later).
• Can be expanded with simple add-ons made in Lua to support other formats, add additional properties to logs, among other useful things.

Would be.

Sounds cool once you see that list, huh?

And also, if I execute it well, it will also be ultra fast and use very few resources. Disk space might worry you a bit, but it completely depends on what YOU store, because text files will not occupy GBs of space, heck, rare for a .txt file to occupy a MB, considering one character is normally one byte.