Caraid

Caraid means "friend" in Scottish Gaelic, and it's pronounced more like "KAH-ritch". Despite what the name might suggest, it's not an app for fixing cars.

Caraid is a note-taking application built around projects, lists and checklists. I use it to organise both personal and work projects, where I can create lists, add notes and updates to individual items, and tick things off as I go. A few other people use it to manage their own projects too.

A large part of the project was creating an application in Scottish Gaelic, a language spoken by around 60,000 people, or roughly 1% of Scotland's population. There are not many applications available in the language, so I wanted Caraid to be one of them. It also gave me an opportunity to work with more widely spoken languages, including Spanish, French and German.

What's next

Caraid is being deprecated in August 2027. It's been fun to develop, but I have other projects I want to focus on and give my time to. I'm considering running a lite version on a subdomain of amcidev.co.uk.