# Ideas
These ideas are offered publicly to the open-source community out of goodwill.
I'm trying to grow my presence in the community and this helps others too!
❤️
All I ask is that you credit me somewhere within the UI.
* Name: James Middleton
* Website: [https://jamesmiddleton.me](https://jamesmiddleton.me)
* Email: [hello@jamesmiddleton.me](mailto:hello@jamesmiddleton.me)
### YouTube Notes
- Take notes with Markdown on YouTube videos inside the browser window
- Able to integrate with Bear or Evernote
- Likely to be browser extensions
- Carry on where you left off with notes from a previous video
- Automatically insert video timestamps into notes?
### Modern Mac Dashboard
- Improved version of Mac's *Dashboard.app* which feels ancient nowadays
- Open source and extendable with web and front-end framework components
- Accessible from any screen by pulling down with four fingers (who uses Exposé?)
- Option to display individual component over current apps (like PiP)
### Simpler Mac Color Picker
- Invoke via Keyboard shortcut similar to ⌘⇧4 for screenshots
- Brings up a picker aperture to replace the mouse
- On a single click, the hex code is copied to the clipboard
- Create other keyboard shortcuts for copying other color representations
- Then the user can simply paste the code wherever they need to
- This would be a great improvement over the native powerful, yet clumbersome *Digital Color Meter*
### The Everything Exchange
- Everything has a value and can be traded on an exchange
- Each asset's value is determined by the market as expected
- Community members can propose and govern new assets to be added
- Needs to be done using a decentralised architecture to be trustworthy
- Should this include traditional stocks, ETFs, etc?
# Unoriginal Ideas
A list of ideas I though were original but actually already existed.
These likely serve you no purpose.
### Explorable JSON Pastebin - [Pastebin](https://pastebin.com) and [JSON Editor](https://jsoneditoronline.org)
- Paste JSON code and store it just like with pastebin.com
- Each property is collapsed by default but can be expanded
- Things like strings of HTML can be rendered
- Arrays can be analysed to provide schemas
### VSCode in the cloud (SaaS) - [CodeSandbox](https://codesandbox.io)
- It's already written in Javascript using Electron
- Only needs settings to be synced and access to a file server (or possibly just GitHub repos)
### Project Boilerplate Generator - [Yeoman](http://yeoman.io)
- Allows the user to kickstart their projects
- Configure tools such as webpack graphically
- Does not require learning of new project's configuration files