🏯 禅文 Zenwen - Devlog 1️⃣

Zenwen is (will be) an app to help people ACTUALLY learn languages like Chinese. As someone with a 960 day Duolingo streak, I know exactly what us language learners need.

My first ship will be a tool for making and studying vocab decks to seamlessly fit in with your day.

Today was a short but productive. The app is basically just a blank screen on the front end, but the systems are falling into place in the code.

Today I developed the system for storing vocab decks.

Now it should be fairly easy to add flashcards and other study tools.

The first hour or so of the day was spent fixing VSCode because lots of things were breaking. It said my phone was connected, but it wouldn’t show up. The Flutter extension also stopped working.

Changed the name from Zhenwen to Zenwen. Zhenwen has religious cultural meanings, so I want to respect that. 真文 means “true text”, which has meanings in Taoism. 禅文 (technically chánwén) essentially means “peaceful language”.

For your entertainment here is a screenshot of a stupid bug that confused me for 30 minutes. 99k pixel overflow.

Can’t wait to see what the next week will bring and watch this app come to life!