Show HN: Notably – a simple tool for sharing markdown notes
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The service gets a ton of traffic, and some of it is content I didn't expect. For example I see a bunch of IoT devices logging IPs and temperature details.
At one point a group of students were sharing (binary) notes with each other. They'd each upload a gzip/base64 encoded binary and that was eating a ton of bandwidth. In short expect to be abused.
1. I don't see details of retention anywhere, are you just storing indefinitely at the moment?
2. No sign-up is nice, but have you considered even just using cookies for 'my past notes'?
3a. ```Code blocks``` render as `inline code` in editing mode, which looks worse than not doing any 'preview' of them in edit mode at all IMO.
3b. ```lang hints (in the manner of Github flavour) are ignored, though some syntax highlighting is done with or without them.
3bi. This seems to mean that keywords from other languages are highlighted as if a keyword in the language used.
3bii. The syntax highlighting colour scheme used is not very colour-blind friendly.
4. Two users (uh, tabs) can concurrently edit, but each others' edits are not seen until refresh; so last to stop typing (=> save) wins.
1. The backend is graphql/django/postgres and yes, the notes are currently being preserved indefinitely. At some point I might add a cron job to remove the empty ones
2. I'm thinking of adding a notebook option eventually, but still considering the best way of doing this in terms of not compromising the current look and feel, which I like the simplicity of
3. for these three points - the markdown editor itself is an open source solution () and not my own creation, so these issues are limitations of this library. I may fork it and make some fixes at a later date, although some of these issues may be fixable with simple css
4. good point, i'll try to implement some kind of a lock here
I created this mostly as a way of sharing notes between other developers. We use MS Teams at work and the interface for copying and pasting code snippets in and out of there is terrible
Notably requires no sign up - you can just create and share notes straight away. It's also completely free
Excellent work
I use the Vue implementation of the above library, which is here: https://github.com/F-loat/vue-simplemde
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_...
Discovered Joplin[0] which does pretty much everything I need, so I'm using that instead. With a shared repository, you could have your notes and be able to find them again in a nicely organized way.
HackMD also allows creating markdown notes anonymously. You can share the note with a link, and start realtime collaboration. Welcome to give it a try!
Edit on the shared link is also a bit dangerous as there is no colab-collission detection. But there it really depends on the use-case.
I always wanted to set up a web renderer that I could quickly paste to (but was too lazy to actually do it), just to quickly show something to others.
Otherwise, maybe someone should implement this purely as a frontend to volatile.wtf
Now that I think about it, I kind of want to implement that.