# Project Ideas You might notice that the ideas listed are sometimes vague or incomplete. This is on purpose, as in real-world development, you often need to define the problem and scope your solution before coding officially begins. If you wish to submit a proposal based on these ideas, you are encouraged to contact the mentors on Discord and find out more about the particular suggestion you're looking at. ### Desktop features 1. ~~**Table (it's taken)**~~ Add simple tabular content to a page Expected Outcome: * The user can insert a table into a page via the slash '/' command * The user can delete and duplicate an existing table * The user can add/delete/duplicate/update rows and columns to an existing table * Each table cell supports rich-text editing * Test covered Difficulty: Medium to High Skills Required: Flutter Mentor: [Lucas](https://github.com/LucasXu0) 2. [~~**Calendar Database**~~](https://docs.appflowy.io/docs/~/changes/m6N8vk400Qj23REmHprl/essential-documentation/contribute-to-appflowy/appflowy-mentorship-program/mentorship-2022/mentee-projects/calendar-view-for-appflowy-database) ~~**(it's taken)**~~ Calendars are a great way to visualize how things connect to certain dates from any database in AppFlowy. Use them for task management and event planning. * Expected Outcome: the user can create a calendar page and add an item to a certain date or a range of dates in the calendar. * Difficulty: High * Skills Required: Flutter * Mentor: [Nathan.fooo](https://github.com/appflowy) *** 3. [~~**Themes**~~](https://docs.appflowy.io/docs/~/changes/m6N8vk400Qj23REmHprl/essential-documentation/contribute-to-appflowy/appflowy-mentorship-program/mentorship-2022/mentee-projects/custom-themes) ~~**(it's taken)**~~ Control the accent color used for interactive elements such as links, handles, and text selection. The editor cursor can also choose to use the same accent color. Other customizations: * Fonts * Font sizes, font weights * Font colors * Text background colors Difficulty: Medium Skills Required: Flutter Mentor: [Lucas](https://github.com/LucasXu0) 4. ~~**Shortcuts (it's taken)**~~ Add more shortcuts and enable users to customize hotkeys Difficulty: Easy to Medium Skills Required: Flutter Mentor: [Lucas](https://github.com/LucasXu0) 5. **AI writers** Utilize AI models to assist in writing. For example, generate to-do lists, outlines, and blog posts. Difficulty: Medium Skills Required: Flutter Mentor: [Lucas](https://github.com/LucasXu0) 6. **AI image generator** Generate images from text and beyond Difficulty: Medium Skills Required: Flutter Mentor: [Lucas](https://github.com/LucasXu0) *** 7. ~~**Code Block for AppFlowy Editor (it's taken)**~~ Develop a code block in Flutter as a standalone package that can be used by AppFlowy and other Flutter applications Difficulty: Medium to Hard Skills Required: Flutter Mentor: Alex *** 8. ~~**Outline Plugin for AppFlowy Editor (it's taken)**~~ Adding the outline block to the document will automatically generate a list of anchor links to the headings within the document. Expected Outcome: * insert an outline via the slash '/' command * convert highlighted lines into an outline * the content of the outline will be generated automatically based on the document * click on the content of the outline will take users directly to the corresponding heading * different levels of headings are indented differently. For example, H1 will have no indentation, while H2 will be indented once, and so on. Difficulty: Medium Skills Required: Flutter Mentor: [Lucas](https://github.com/LucasXu0) 9. ~~**Favorites (it's taken)**~~ Allow us to quickly access favorited pages via Favorites in the left navigation panel. Expected Outcome: * Favorite and unfavorite a page or subpage * Favorited pages can be accessed from the "Favorites" list in the left panel Difficulty: Hard Skills Required: Flutter, Rust Mentor: Mathias, Nathan 10. ~~**Importers (it's taken)**~~ Import data from third-party sources, eg: Notion importer, Joplin importer Difficulty: Easy / Medium / Hard Skills Required: Flutter, Rust Mentor: Lucas ### CI tools **1. Report Binary Size** We consider binary size as an important metric, although it is easy to overlook. We would like to create some GitHub integrations that would automatically do a release build of a new PR and report the difference in binary size between that PR and the current main branch. * Expected Outcome: an easy-to-use tool to report binary size * Difficulty: Easy / Medium * Skills Required: Flutter, Rust, GitHub API * Mentor: [Nathan.fooo](https://github.com/appflowy) **2. Speed up building the release package** It takes almost 20 minutes to build the AppFlowy release package. It would be nice if we can speed it up using GitHub cache or matrix. * Expected Outcome: the cost of the time of the PR’s GitHub actions should be reduced * Difficulty: Easy / Medium * Skills Required: Flutter, Rust, GitHub API * Mentor: [Nathan.fooo](https://github.com/appflowy) ### Tracing performance regressions **1. Tracing performance regressions** Performance could become a key differentiator for AppFlowy. We’d like to keep tracking it. To track it, we need to come up with a metric system. The system includes a set of metrics and a running process that collects results and persists them for analysis. * Expected Outcome: * A metric system that measures the performance of AppFlowy * A working tool that collects results and persists them for analysis * Difficulty: Medium / High * Skills Required: Rust * Mentor: [Nathan.fooo](https://github.com/appflowy)