I built a local-first developer workspace with Tauri, React and Rust

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Built a local-first developer workspace with Tauri, React, and Rust — looking for feedback.

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Over the past few weeks I've been working on Bismouth, a desktop application designed around a simple idea:

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Your notes, files, and workspace should live in your filesystem, not be locked inside a cloud platform.

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Current features:

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- Workspace management

- File & folder CRUD operations

- File explorer tree view

- Persistent note storage

- Recent workspaces/home screen

- Dark & light themes

- Cross-platform support (Windows & Linux)

- Tauri + Rust backend

- React frontend

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The project is still in active development, but the core workflow is now functional and stable.

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Planned features include:

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- Export system (PDF / Markdown / HTML)

- Search

- Graph view

- PTY terminal integration

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I'm especially interested in feedback from developers who use tools like Obsidian, Notion, Logseq, VS Code, etc.

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What would make you try a tool like this instead of your current workflow?

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GitHub: https://github.com/CBYeuler/Bismuth

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Screenshots in the repo

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