This roadmap outlines the planned development phases for NoteNest – Collaborative Knowledge Base. It serves as a guide for contributors during Open Source Quest (OSQ) and beyond.
The roadmap is flexible and may evolve based on community feedback and contribution quality.
🎯 Goal: Establish a stable, usable knowledge base system
- Basic layout and navigation
- Rich text / markdown editor
- Create, edit, and delete notes
- Folder and tag-based organization
- Responsive UI
- User authentication (login/register)
- Note CRUD APIs
- Workspace and team model
- Basic role-based access control (Admin / Editor / Viewer)
- MongoDB schema design
- Indexing for notes and users
- Seed data for development
- Local setup guide
- Contribution guidelines
- API overview
🎯 Goal: Improve teamwork and content discoverability
- Team workspaces
- Invite & manage members
- Permissions per workspace
- Activity tracking (basic)
- Keyword-based note search
- Tag and folder filtering
- Indexed queries for performance
- Improved editor UX
- Loading & error states
- Keyboard shortcuts (optional)
- Architecture overview
- Search & indexing documentation
🎯 Goal: Harden the platform and improve reliability
- Secure authentication flows
- Authorization middleware
- Input validation & sanitization
- Rate limiting
- Fine-grained permissions
- Role management UI
- Permission-based UI rendering
- Unit tests for core logic
- API tests
- Error handling improvements
- Performance optimizations
- Security guidelines
- Role & permission documentation
🎯 Goal: Explore advanced and experimental features
- Full-text search
- Search ranking improvements
- Caching frequently accessed notes
- Real-time editing (experimental)
- Commenting on notes
- Version history
- AI-generated note summaries
- Smart tag suggestions
- Content insights
🎯 Goal: Prepare the project for real-world usage
- Accessibility improvements
- Dark mode
- UI consistency audits
- Environment configuration
- CI checks
- Linting and formatting enforcement
- Deployment guide
- FAQ
- Contributor recognition
This roadmap is:
- Reviewed periodically by maintainers
- Updated based on community needs and OSQ timelines
- Not a strict promise but a guiding plan
NoteNest is a learning-driven open-source project. Contributions that improve clarity, stability, and usability are always welcome.
Let’s build something meaningful together 🚀