[HN Gopher] Show HN: Writedown - Open Source Markdown Diary
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Show HN: Writedown - Open Source Markdown Diary
Author : NayamAmarshe
Score : 33 points
Date : 2023-06-24 19:23 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (writedown.app)
(TXT) w3m dump (writedown.app)
| NayamAmarshe wrote:
| Hiya Hackers!
|
| For the past few months, I've been working on writedown
| (https://writedown.app,
| https://github.com/NayamAmarshe/writedown). A free and open
| source markdown editor that focuses on UI and UX. It's made to be
| simple and beautiful but still powerful.
|
| writedown has live markdown preview (option to disable this also
| coming soon), offline support, PWA and cloud sync.
|
| You can also share your posts with other people
| (https://writedown.app/DhpDKTulcnOecM3wYt4AOiWiuGE3/posts/82f...)
| and download your posts in PDF, Markdown or HTML format.
|
| Please do tell me how you like it and if you think it's useful
| (or not). I've been trying to create something simple that I
| could use for my personal notes, notes that I can share with my
| friends and so writedown came into existence.
|
| I hope you like it and if you don't, I'd love to know the
| reasons. This is our second MVP and we're sharing this public
| beta with you all.
|
| Thank you :)
|
| Source Code: https://github.com/NayamAmarshe/writedown
| outwit wrote:
| An option to try it without logging in would be nice. Since it
| has offline support it seems like that should be possible?
| NayamAmarshe wrote:
| Yes, we were actually working on it too but had to prioritize
| some other things.
|
| In future though, we'll surely be adding the ability to use
| the editor without logging in so. Login will be there if you
| want to save the notes via cloud sync :)
| dariosalvi78 wrote:
| Reminds me of Joplin
| iot_devs wrote:
| So if you guys are into diary and personal note keeping I am just
| working on a telegram bot that do just that.
|
| @Simple_DIary_bot
|
| That you can use: http://t.me/Simple_DIary_bot
|
| I wanted it to work with audio messages so you can just send an
| audio message that is send to openai whisper and a text is
| extracted.
|
| It also send an reminder everyday so that I don't forget my daily
| entry.
|
| Technically it is all based on AWS Lambda and Dynamodb.
| NayamAmarshe wrote:
| Ah, pretty cool!
|
| I use Telegram for notes/journals too but it doesn't support
| markdown and that's how I got the idea for writedown haha.
| justsomehnguy wrote:
| Huh? Telegram does support md (in it's own flavour)?
| NayamAmarshe wrote:
| Lists, headings, images are not supported + there's a
| character limit.
| talloaktrees wrote:
| I like this a lot, can you talk about what you are doing to
| protect user's private data? that's something I'd want to be
| convinced about before I use it.
| NayamAmarshe wrote:
| On the privacy front, we're never going to compromise the user
| data, never going to sell it, never going to share it with
| anybody else. We'll be making writedown self-hostable as well.
|
| On the security front, we're using firebase firestore as the
| database. So at rest, it's well encrypted.
|
| We're thinking of introducing some sort of encryption via
| passwords (kinda how I already am doing it on
| https://maglit.me). E2EE would be quite difficult and would
| affect the usability.
| anaganisk wrote:
| The problem with Firebase I've seen is not the E2EE but
| rather the ACLs being set. There have been 10s of websites
| that were exposed to public, that have been exposed in the
| recent past. Not to claim you are doing something wrong, just
| a caution to anyone who uses firebase.
| laurent123456 wrote:
| Is encryption at rest that useful? These days it's trivial to
| enable full disk encryption on most systems so it's not so
| important what individual apps are doing.
|
| E2EE is definitely important however, personally I wouldn't
| use a journaling app that doesn't have this. In which way
| would it affect usability?
| NayamAmarshe wrote:
| Here's some more information about the encryption:
| https://cloud.google.com/firestore/docs/server-side-
| encrypti...
|
| > In which way would it affect usability?
|
| Cloud sync would be quite difficult and I'd like to avoid
| the backup-restore game that most other apps don't seem to
| mind, because writedown's focus is on reducing complexity
| for people.
|
| I'm not someone who uses Notion, I find it rather
| complicated and most apps that I've tried just try to do
| too much. Telegram is great for storing notes but it
| doesn't support markdown.
|
| Handling the keys with E2EE is a big challenge. There's not
| a normal way to use E2EE without affecting the sync
| capabilities, login capabilities, offline capabilities or
| usability.
| ohgodplsno wrote:
| Considering you use Firebase,"we're never going to sell your
| data" is something I've heard a lot, until the first Firebase
| invoices come in.
| kervantas wrote:
| So rentry.org, but with a live markdown preview and log in
| requirement.
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