I have a pet idea to write a Notion-like tool that works like an old-school desktop app - meaning you should be able to export your pages or the entire database as a single sql file and it should be open-able from somewhere else.

I also want to leverage the web platform (mainly because it's the right thing to do and partly because the web is the only one that offers a decent rich-editor environment without as much plumbing needed if I build natively). So basically a browser app that behaves fully like a desktop app without any needing internet connection.

And for that idea to become reality james long's absurd sql is basically the key. Without such persistent sql based db to work with, that ideas is never going to materialize :)