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Show HN: Nooot – Share text using the key phrase, access it from anywhere

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Perfect! Sometimes I need to send a dropbox link from one of my devices to a computer at work to print and stuff. Until now I have always used email or facebook, but because I use long passphrases and a key manager logging in on the other computer is always a hassle. This will serve that use perfectly - use a random passphrase and then paste the link, type in on other computer and then open it from there. Great!

I would love to set an expiry date for this use case though as I only need the link for one minute to retrieve the files.

Thanks a lot for the feedback! That’s how we use Nooot on our own :) You can just delete the text from the note after you’ve copied the link, it will be deleted permanently.

Ah, I see. I've started a list of use-cases at "uses".

I use Push Bullet for that exact purpose

Nice! Is it a deliberate design decession to not replicate the key phrase in the url, and have the notes be shareable as a direct link?

Thanks. Yes we tried to implement another way of sharing, not standard via url. Instead you can share notes via the key phrase on nooot - very easy to tell in person or via the phone.

Surely, DM `nooot.co/keyphrase` is much easier than texting ‘Go to http://nooot.co, then type “keyphrase”.’ So what are the objections against a shareable url? Persistence, security? (Just curious.)

We just wanted to make Nooot to feel super "clean" that was the main reason, also security. But we are super flexible and maybe going to add links later if we'll see that people don't feel some kind of distracted by the changed Url. Also it is possible that we are overthinking everything :D

I see, thanks. (Plus, I guess getting the slugs right — the mess that comes with percentage encoded unicode chars — perhaps won’t be worth the effort.)

This is really fun. This is like the Yo for notes! But since its public and anyone can see what I've written, I probably won't use it for collaboration!

This is fantastic! I think it would be helpful to be able to change key phrases just by clicking and editing, rather than having to click that arrow button. At the very least move the arrow button to the left side of the phrase.

That’s a cool idea, thanks.

Love super simple ideas like this. Is there a way to link directly to a nooot so I don't have to tell my friend to type in a specific phrase? Is there any way to lock a nooot so it can't be edited by other people?

Thanks for the kind words. I like the idea of locking nooots, gonna think about it. Right now you can just choose a longer phrase.

Regarding the link sharing, we wanted to make it that way, because we felt it will be easier later to tell “apple @ nooot” or something like that, or via phone or even IRL. But we will see how it goes.

I don't see any reason why you couldn't have it both ways. A link is more convenient sometimes and a phrase other times.

Thanks for the feedback, we just tried to make it as "clear" as possible, but your point definitely makes sense.

It would be nice to be able to remove entries from the recently accessed key phrase list, and maybe there should be an option when creating a text to not let it be stored in the history, so it has to be typed in each time.

Really good points, thanks.

I am the bad guy who blocks mixpanel with adblock and the page is blank for me because of that. Not sure if this is intentional or just was never considered?

Sorry for that, it is not intentional, we'll fix it.

I found the secret.

CYOA! That's epic.

Check out the story too.

Hey Author, this is a really cool idea! I will definitely use this. Just wanted to give you some kudos. Thanks for showing <3

Thank you Very appreciated

If it's ok, I would like to shamelessly plug a very similar project I finished about 5 years ago:

http://carpynotes.com/

It's notes plus a todo list. The user manual is auto loaded into the body of any blank note, just delete it and get going, read it first :) If you guys from the OP like any of the ideas, please borrow, the CarpyNotes projects has been dead for a while now, but some people use it on occasion, so I keep it running.

I forgot to mention, notes on how CarpyNotes works are also available at http://carpynotes.com/editor/popups/about.html

There seems to be a minor bug where visiting a keyphrase with an apostraphe causes the HTML entity to replace it.

Thanks, we'll fix it.

I made a 'help' menu to highlight some of the neater stuff I contributed to.

Thanks, we'll definetely review it.

The keyphrase <script>alert(1);</script> didn't work :p

enter `<script type='text/javascript'>alert(1);</script>` as a note phrase, visit another note, then click the door icon

I think you found a more direct UI for simple wikis. Nice.

Thanks, that’s an interesting way to look at Nooot

How do you avoid collisions of passphrases?

We don’t do that, so you can actually collaborate on one note in real time with others.

that's the fun part, silly!

Markdown support would be nice :)

I found it really fun testing out various phrases and see where people had written before:

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Hello

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