staying organized, you know — For Developers
vistacker is a bit of a passion project for me to stay organized.
While I've been in management for many years, I switched to writing lots of code especially when I was one of the co-founders at Sproute Networks (acquired in 2021). I recently quit my well-paying job (nuts!) and have had some free time to experiment.
I've always enjoyed designing and coding in my spare time (outside of my regular management job), but many projects did not get completed due to the heavy lift required to get them to production.
Not so anymore with coding agents. I've used Claude extensively to build vistacker to scratch my itch. I'm hoping you will find some resonance with the problem statement and what it attempts to solve.
The premise is this: most developers use the terminal pretty much every day. Many times, you have to cut-and-paste, remember things, and track many items. We also work across multiple machines, and the data is usually not available on another machine at a moment's notice. Typically, we are quite zoned out thinking about a problem even when traveling, and you want to be able to note things down and have them available on your desktop or laptop when you get back.
Websites are good for the above — however, you are working on headless machines (servers) many times and would need to SSH tunnel and use VNC to open a browser session there.
Also, you want to do things quickly (local first) and have the information available at a moment's notice.
vistacker is an attempt to solve these problems. It is a TUI application with Vi-style navigation and a mobile app that are local-first, work offline when not connected, and sync with the server and other clients.
Works on Linux, macOS, Windows (experimental), and iOS. It is free for one vault that can be synced. You can also optionally encrypt your vault — so your tasks, notes, and logs stay encrypted on the server, and only another client that has the key can decrypt them. This puts the data (optionally) out of reach of the service.
There is experimental support to integrate with an LLM, and it works reasonably well.
Please try vistacker.com out and let me know what you think. Comments, improvements, and suggestions are welcome — please submit them through the support page vistacker.com/support (after login, to prevent spam). There is no web page that shows your data; all data is available in the TUI and iOS app.
The iOS App: is available for Download on the App Store.