[HN Gopher] A 9KB (3KB gzip) single HTML notebook, perfect for m...
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       A 9KB (3KB gzip) single HTML notebook, perfect for minimalists
        
       Author : chunqiuyiyu
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2025-10-08 15:54 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (chunqiuyiyu.github.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (chunqiuyiyu.github.io)
        
       | yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
       | Well, it does what it says on the tin:)
       | 
       | https://github.com/chunqiuyiyu/xie?tab=readme-ov-file#prereq...
       | says it needs NodeJS; is that just for building? Could you make a
       | release on github that includes it as a single .html file that
       | could be downloaded and used with no deps but a browser?
        
         | Alejandro9R wrote:
         | https://github.com/chunqiuyiyu/xie/tree/gh-pages
         | 
         | in the gh-pages branch you have the final index.html. You can
         | also literally download/save the page as well, should be the
         | same.
         | 
         | It does not use any other deps than the final index.html
         | 
         | Now, speaking about the project itself, maybe it would be good
         | if the notes get also saved into localStorage in some way. One
         | browser refresh or reboot and it all goes away if it wasn't
         | saved.
        
           | jayknight wrote:
           | You are obviously not a minimalist /s
        
           | SLWW wrote:
           | if it auto saved to local storage then it would 100% be a
           | daily use Markdown capable editor
        
       | progre wrote:
       | Bug: If you put a space as the title, you can't edit the note
       | later because the post is not clickable.
        
       | yardshop wrote:
       | It was not obvious to me that I needed to click the New button
       | first. I clicked around everywhere else and tried typing and no
       | go. Then after clicking New and getting a text area, it made
       | sense and I said "well of course".
       | 
       | So maybe not too many other people had this problem, but perhaps
       | the top line could say "Click New, then just write." =)
       | 
       | And/or start the page off with a note that describes the basic
       | process:
       | 
       | "click new, write, and click Publish to finish the note, then
       | click Save to save it to index.html on your system"
       | 
       | When I went back to edit a note, Publish didn't work for me.
       | 
       | Trying this in Vivaldi, I didn't try on another browser yet.
        
       | mossTechnician wrote:
       | This is an interesting project. I'm glad to see Markdown is
       | supported. I was surprised that there is no persistent storage of
       | notes, though (at least not on my device).
        
       | ottoflux wrote:
       | not a dig, but it reminds me of how much i used to like tiddly
       | wiki.
       | 
       | https://tiddlywiki.com/
        
       | nanomonkey wrote:
       | Or you can just put the following in the url bar of your browser
       | (Ctr-s to save):
       | 
       | data:text/html, <html contenteditable>
        
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