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Coming up next: NoorNote Tribes
After I have already introduced the feature rich follow and bookmark lists in #NoorNote, the next release will include a new feature based on NIP 51 lists: Tribes. These are essentially loose sets of various users that you can group into specific groups (Tribes). It does not matter whether you already follow them or not.
The definition of Tribes happens similarly to bookmarks in Folders (categories).
For this, you can define a Tribe Folder (=category name) with Tribes and combine different users in a comma separated list with Members and assign them to a specific Tribe. You can also just enter npubs.
When you click on the Tribe Folder, you then see your Tribe Members as user cards.
And of course, the synchronization from and to the local file and from and to the relays works just like with the bookmarks.
As usual, you can set in the settings whether you want to handle the synchronization manually or let NoorNote take over the work for you.
WHAT IS THIS GOOD FOR?
Well, I can imagine many use cases for Tribes in the future. The first and simplest case would be a timeline consisting only of the posts from the people in a Tribe. That is already implemented, but not yet obviously accessible, because this feature is still in alpha state and I want to observe it over a longer period. And here comes another feature that you do not know about yet: You can also access certain URLs via the search function.
For this, click on Search or fire CMD+K on Mac and enter '/tribes' in the search bar.
... and you land in the view of the Tribe Timelines
At the top in the tab bar, you see your defined Tribes and below that the timeline consisting of posts from the members of this Tribe.
As mentioned, Tribes are coming in the next release so you can already experiment with them.
For this, you can define a Tribe Folder (=category name) with Tribes and combine different users in a comma separated list with Members and assign them to a specific Tribe. You can also just enter npubs.
And of course, the synchronization from and to the local file and from and to the relays works just like with the bookmarks.
As usual, you can set in the settings whether you want to handle the synchronization manually or let NoorNote take over the work for you.
WHAT IS THIS GOOD FOR?
Well, I can imagine many use cases for Tribes in the future. The first and simplest case would be a timeline consisting only of the posts from the people in a Tribe. That is already implemented, but not yet obviously accessible, because this feature is still in alpha state and I want to observe it over a longer period. And here comes another feature that you do not know about yet: You can also access certain URLs via the search function.
For this, click on Search or fire CMD+K on Mac and enter '/tribes' in the search bar.
... and you land in the view of the Tribe Timelines
At the top in the tab bar, you see your defined Tribes and below that the timeline consisting of posts from the members of this Tribe.
As mentioned, Tribes are coming in the next release so you can already experiment with them.
2. Click the share icon.
3. The note editor will open with the image and a link to the original poster.
4. Add your own text if you want, preview it, and then post it.
And if you want to share a few with other people, you just tick the "Profile" checkbox on that folder, and your list gets mounted to your profile page.
Basically, you can put anything you like onto your profile: your portfolio, a playlist, your top notes that you don't want buried in the timeline, a shopping wish list, you name it.
Right now, only NoorNote handles this, but it's all built on existing NIPs, so any other client could support it too if they wanted.
Normally, when you start the app, you just see the "Save to File" button. But if you switch from "Easy Mode" to "Manual Mode" in the list settings, you can take granular control over your list management.
There are three places where your lists get stored:
1. In the browser (localStorage)
2. On the hard drive (under ~/.noornote/<your_npub>/)
3. And of course, on the relays.
So in "Manual Mode," you can decide when the list you have in your browser gets synced to the local file or to the relays, or restored from either. It doesn't get much more secure than that for handling your lists.
But if you don't feel like dealing with all that fiddling, just leave it in "Easy Mode" and NoorNote handles the syncing for you. You can still save your lists locally in "Easy Mode" anytime.
RICH FOLLOW LIST
I said Nostr lists have potential. Every list in NoorNote shows an example of what you can do with them. Let's take the follows list. It shows who you're following, or in NoorNote terms, who you're connected with. But it can do a lot more.
For example, it also shows if the user follows you back ("Mutual") or what your mutual zap ratio is. But that's not all. You can check from time to time if anything's changed in that mutual relationship. Just click "Check for changes."
Got a new mutual? Did someone stop following you back? A few seconds after clicking "Check for changes," new and former mutuals show up in a modal. And they get synced to your notifications too. So you can close the modal no problem. "Mark as seen" creates a new snapshot, so the same list won't show up next time, and you'll only get the new changes since your last check.
In your notifications, you can now click on any user and land right on their profile.
But that's not all.
When you open your follow list, you see it sorted by the time you followed them. But not all at once, since that can take a while to load depending on the number. At the end of the displayed list, more get loaded (with infinite scroll). But that can take time too until you see them all. If you want to see everything right away, click "Load all."
A loading bar appears...
And once they're all loaded, even more features become active.
For example, you can now sort by zaps too (a little borrow from ZapStar 
Or you can search directly for a user if you remember part of their name.
Or have it show only the non-mutuals.
And that's just the beginning.