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Now I just need some javascript to listen for Ctrl+S and save it as a text file in ~/Documents/scratchpads. Time to get crackin'

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How do you save stuff in files from the browser?

I've googled around about this a couple times and not found anything good, so if anyone can point to some clear documentation I'd appreciate it.

I found this very helpful: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/filesystem/

I'm on mobile so I can write to much accompanying text, but start here:

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/filesystem/

Thanks to both of you. I'll check it out.

I don’t think that’s going to work, since the data URI is inherently local (and only works on Chrome), and you can’t use the Chrome file-system API or even localStorage when you're viewing a local file, unless chrome was opened with `--allow-file-access-from-files`

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