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Simple no bs persistent notepad

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This is not "simple". And I'm not even talking about tracking, why is `all.js` a whooping 1 MB of JavaScript? For example, it clearly includes markdown-it but the website has zero Markdown support as far as I can tell. Spell-checking is the only non-trivial component I can imagine and even that can be plausibly replaced with a native `spellcheck` attribute.

I would instead recommend a beautifully golfed, and yet still quite readable and functional notepad app with <100 bytes of JS: https://xem.github.io/postit/

thanks bro :3

This page has unnecessary user tracking, such as:

{ "n": "User wrote something", "u": "https://blank.page/", "d": "blank.page", "r": "https://news.ycombinator.com/", "p": { "branch": "master" } }

That's kind of useful to know what page you were on when you took the note.

Is that transferred to an external server?

Yes, to https://plausible.io

Given that this information is sent to Plausible, a more privacy-friendly alternative to Google, would people complain if it used Google Analytics instead? I'm gonna go bet they wouldn't.

Google runs on 99.9% of websites and no one ever bats an eye (haven't heard anyone complain about it on this forum), but somehow a less terrible tracking suite is noteworthy enough to complain about.

(Disclaimer: I have a paid Plausible subscription for my products because it collects much less data than Google, and I don't need to add a cookie banner)

If you haven't heard people complaining about Google Analytics, you haven't been listening. Personally, I block access to it except from one "dirty" browser for pages that won't run without access.

Firstly, yes, people would complain if it was GA instead? I'm not even sure how serious this comment is.

Secondly, it's noteworthy because this is supposedly a "Simple, No BS" notepad. Tracking user activity doesn't fit into either of those categories for a ... notepad.

Unnecessary to whom?

Why would I use a Browser for a "persistent" notes?

"Persistent" until I delete browser cache?

Why would I type my notes into a website somebody hosts? People really fail to understand what apps are for these days. They are 1001 minimalistic writing apps. And all kinds of Note apps. The is Gnote for Linux that may not look as nice, but you can actually link notes with each other, and they are in fact truly persistent and stored on your PC not in some stupid browser cache.

> not in some stupid browser cache.

Oh, was the creative tech demo glass not completely full?

No clue what you mean, browser cache might even clear itself without you doing anything manually. This thing makes no sense.

Nowhere ever did it say Tech Demo anywhere, not in the HN headline, not on the page itself. No, thanks. And even as a tech demo, there is nothing impressive going in. It is stores shit to local storage, I guess. Lol, I just looked this up, and it was in Firefox on 2009 already? WHAT? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/loca... I never used it myself directly, but I remember reading about some API that kind of is the new version of cookies that can store more and better and I think that is it. 2009, I would swear what I think about was newer, maybe I am mixing something up, maybe not.

It has unnecessarily tracking from the comment above, not sure if it even sends all your notes to https://plausible.io, and I do not care. For me, this fails as a tech demo or whatever the fuck It's supposed to be. Sorry to not get all excited about everything posted here. In 2009 it for sure would ;)

I think there is a dearth of really clean uncomplicated software in the world, and many of us feel a kind of subconscious oppression due to that.

Anyone using this is responding in good humor to the psychological relief due to its design, an impressive lack of clutter. And isn't taking it seriously for its feature set.

Your reaction was so strongly negative, perhaps consider the positive response is on a different dimension from the one you are (no doubt correctly, as far as it goes) judging it.

I made this https://textarea.cc for myself a while ago. I use the LanguageTool browser extension for spellchecking. Mainly just a textarea field with a touch of JS sprinkled on top of it.

Very nice! Simple and clean.

Is it open source? I don’t see any links on mobile. This is the type of thing that people may prefer to self host.

This is pretty cool. I think markdown support and animations when typing (like Word has) would be welcome additions. Also, there seems to be flickering when I first start typing?

there's a lot of hidden features

for example you can create multiple notes by doing https://blank.page/notenamehere

Been using this for a long while, i love it

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