chat2markdown

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Product Spec
3. Wireframes
4. Schema

Overview

Description

chat2markdown is an experimental chat app that allows you and your friends to modify all messages in the chat… all for the sake of a good markdown file.

philosophical assumptions:

• data shouldn’t exist in silos
• chats are collective artifacts
• having all the knobs of a system is good sometimes

App Evaluation

• Category: Messaging, note-taking
• Mobile: Mobile is fundamental here because it is the most direct from of sending messages.
• Story: Users will be able to transcribe their conversations that contains voice messages and export them forever.
• Market: Messaging
• Habit: The app might assist and integrate the personal habit of sending meaningful voice messages to people, while being able to regularly retrieve information from these messages.
• Scope: On the most basic level, the user should be able to upload a voice message directly from WhatsApp and have it displayed in screen as a message bubble to copy and paste in raw text. Users can also import written messages from WhatsApp if it helps complementing a dialogue. They can also edit any of the text of all parties in the dialogue as they wish. In cybernetic terms, they have requisite variety over all existing symbols in the dialogue.

Product Spec

1. User Stories (Required and Optional)

Required Must-have Stories

• The user can delete a message bubble, or edit it any way they want (as for correcting syntaxical errors, for example).
• Users can move around messages in any order, in real-time
• Users edit any of the text of all parties in the dialogue as they wish.
• In cybernetic terms, users should have requisite variety over all existing symbols in the dialogue.

2. Screen Archetypes

• Login/Sign up
  • User can log in
  • User can sign up
• Chat list
  • User can see a list of previous created chats
  • User can create a new chat
  • User can delete any chat
• Chat
  • User can see message bubbles
  • User can move messages around
  • User can edit any message bubbles
  • User can export chat to Markdown
• Edit message bubble
  • User can edit message bubble
• Settings
  • User can delete account
  • User can change password

3. Navigation

Flow Navigation (Screen to Screen)

• Login/Signup screen
  • Chat list
• Chat list
  • Settings
  • Chat
• Edit message
  • Chat
• Markdown export
  • Chat

Wireframes

Figma template

Schema

Models

User

Property	Type	Description
objectId	String	unique id for the user (default field)
emailVerified	Bool	Whether or not email is verified
name	String	User's name
username	String	User's username to log in
password	String	Users hashed/encrypted password
email	String	User's email address
createdAt	DateTime	Date for when user created their account

Chat

Property	Type	Description
objectId	String	unique id for the chat
createdAt	Date	Date for when chat was created
updatedAt	Date	Date for when chat was updated
ACL	ACL	Access control list (Public Read + Write by default)
recipients	NSArray<PFUser *>	Person who "received" the messages
chatDescription	String	Description of subject of the chat
messages	Relation	List of all messages in the chat
current_sender	Number	Current sender in the chat

Message

Property	Type	Description
objectId	String	unique id for the message
text	String	The content of the message
sender	PFUser *	A pointer to the user who sent the message
audio	File (nullable)	Audio file if the message was transcribed
CreatedAt	DateTime	Date for when message was created

Networking

• Chat list
  • (Create/POST) Create a new chat
  • (Delete) Delete a new chat
• Chat screen
  • (Create/POST) Create a new message
  • (Update/Put) Change message order
  • (Delete) Delete a message
  • (Read/GET) Get messages in the chat
• Message
  • (Update/Put) Edit message