I have a PhD in linguistics and have always been baffled by the lack of quality software for the types of data annotation workflows that linguists who do elicitation work with native speakers need to do. There's FLEx [0], but it's windows only and really not very good.

I'd love to build a modern, cross-platform replacement for FLEx. I just need to actually do it.

[0]: https://software.sil.org/fieldworks/

I studied linguistics in college but never used FLEx. Sounds like an interesting project. Why do you say it's not very good (outside being windows only) and what keeps you from starting this project?