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Show HN: Notes.cx - A simple, anonymous online notepad \w Markdown
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Author : hxii
Score : 64 points
Date : 2021-07-29 10:02 UTC (12 hours ago)
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| quaintdev wrote:
| http://telegra.ph
| ghosty141 wrote:
| this is oddly similar.
| hxii wrote:
| Telegraph was actually one of the inspirations I used for
| Notes.cx. However, I didn't use a JavaScript editor (Quill) in
| my case and I have no idea what the privacy and retention
| policies are like on Telegra.ph.
| jack_riminton wrote:
| I find these super quick note taking tools incredibly handy. I
| love dillinger.io but I always find myself using docs.new because
| I can create a note within a second
|
| Feature request: a keyboard shortcut to save or "create", because
| I'm lazy and scrolling down and clicking create is just too much
| :)
| hxii wrote:
| Keyboard shortcuts are actually something I thought about! I'll
| have to experiment with this a little bit to see how it can be
| implemented in a non-obtrusive and useful way.
| usrme wrote:
| Is there something similar that is offline? All I'm interested in
| is just opening up a bookmark without an internet connection and
| being able to jot down stuff with Markdown support; it being able
| to save state is even not necessarily required.
| ghosty141 wrote:
| Markdown and offline is always a bit problematic. It's a format
| that needs to be rendered with a browser, so it's just not very
| suitable for offline/non-browser use.
| dewey wrote:
| > Markdown and offline is always a bit problematic.
|
| That is not true. Markdown has nothing to do with being
| online.
| honie wrote:
| I was bored, here you go! A completely offline browser-based
| markdown editor!
|
| https://notes.cx/ZkZNL9vFr
|
| Edit: Updated styles. Clarified what it is.
| sharikone wrote:
| Not to pressure but having open/save buttons (implementable
| either as upload/download Javascript shims) would be
| interesting. They can also be quine-like (I.e. you save the
| HTML and Javascript of the editor itself together with the
| content). I did once that for Suneditor but did not publish
| it, alas.
| sitkack wrote:
| I love having the document and the app being the same file.
| No app to find or version skew between app and data.
| a9h74j wrote:
| Excellent. Useful for being on a chromebook, offline and not
| logged in, so only opening local html files for tools is an
| option (no Chrome extensions). Will add file saving to my
| copy.
| [deleted]
| tyingq wrote:
| Stackedit works offline if you install the Chrome app. I assume
| there's also some way to coax it into working as a file:// uri.
|
| Chrome app:
| https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stackedit/iiooodel...
|
| Live demo of stackedit: https://stackedit.io/app#
| Whiteshadow12 wrote:
| You could try something like this, though it might not have the
| markdown support you want.
|
| https://github.com/zserge/awfice
| dugmartin wrote:
| I'm wondering for other folks that have created tools like this
| how do you do moderation of anonymous content as I can see this
| quickly devolving into a cesspool.
|
| The thought of that has held me back from a couple of ideas I've
| had that allowed for public anonymous text.
|
| (btw, I don't want to get into a discussion about if moderation
| is needed)
| hxii wrote:
| I think that due to the retention policy (24 hours) that I
| implemented as well as lack of any "social-like" features
| (likes, upvotes, comments, indexing, visibility), the tool is
| pretty self-moderating.
|
| That said, I'd love to hear what others think on this subject
| as well.
| riffic wrote:
| there's only one thing that comes to mind when I see the .cx top-
| level domain.
| debarshri wrote:
| It would be cool if it has notion like "/" commands to inject
| codeblocks and other assets.
|
| Nice project!
| hxii wrote:
| Thanks! A Notion-like editor is possible (using something like
| Editor.js - https://editorjs.io/) but would require much more
| development which would make this project quite a bit more
| complex :)
| hxii wrote:
| As a demonstration, here is a sample note:
| https://notes.cx/TWuAaH9p
| rkalla wrote:
| This is slick.
|
| 1 suggestion - make a Created (published) note optionally
| editable... so when the note is originally being edited there is
| a checkbox to allow it to be editable or not, so once it's
| published, it's fixed in space and time...
|
| The viewer of an uneditable note can have a button to "Edit a
| Copy" of the note to create their own version of it and publish
| it under their own URL, but they can't edit the content of the
| original one.
|
| NOW you've got yourself a forever tool here.
| philshem wrote:
| You can use your browser as an offline (temporary) text editor,
| which I find useful with screen sharing.
|
| Enter this into your browser's address bar:
| data:text/html, <html contenteditable>
|
| https://twitter.com/philshem/status/1420282427969318916?s=20
|
| and with focus data:text/html, <html style="
| max-width: 64ch;margin: auto;font-size: calc(1rem + 1vw);line-
| height: 1.4;font-family: monospace;padding: calc(1rem +
| 4vw);"><body contenteditable><script>document.addEventListener("D
| OMContentLoaded", () => {document.body.focus()})</script>
|
| https://twitter.com/getflourish/status/1420308275422285830?s...
| spijdar wrote:
| That's odd. I assumed it would act like, well, an input box
| akin to the one I'm typing this comment in, but it's not. At
| the very least, Ctrl + Backspace doesn't work (on Firefox on
| Linux) to delete entire words, which works everywhere else.
| dugmartin wrote:
| I have this as a bookmarklet and I use it frequently when
| pairing for ephemeral notes: data:text/html,
| <html contenteditable><head><title>ScratchPad</title><style>bod
| y{font-family:monospace}</style></head>
|
| I like having the title so I can see it in the tab and the font
| setting makes cutting/pasting code look better.
| mattowen_uk wrote:
| I'm going to get torched for this, but surely Notepad.exe or
| your-distros-default-text-editor would be easier ?
| philshem wrote:
| When screen sharing on a video call, I prefer to only share a
| private browsing window, rather than the entire desktop.
| gompertz wrote:
| But to that same point, you can share only your Notepad
| screen as well...
| spiderice wrote:
| I mean obviously you could share any number of windows..
| but there is still something convenient about sharing a
| single private browser window.
| gabipurcaru wrote:
| this looks nice and clean. Generally, the problem with these
| services is that they can easily be used for malicious purposes
| -- fronts for data exfiltration, scamming etc., so there will be
| some cost attached to responding to various queries and takedown
| requests
|
| https://mediasonar.com/2019/07/11/pastebins-data-breach/
| john-doe wrote:
| From the help page: "every note you create (anonymously) lives
| for 24 hours"
| benrbray wrote:
| Needs $inline$ and $$block$$ math!
| hxii wrote:
| Should be fairly easy to add since Parsedown offers support for
| LaTeX. The thing is - I'd need to add KaTeX. I'll look into it!
| a9h74j wrote:
| There _is_ a tool out there to combine markup-interpretation
| and mathjax (IIRC) for $ $ and $$ $$, applying them to the same
| <textarea> for translation onLoad(). I don't have a name for
| you right now to search for.
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