A little in-browser note taking appliaction focused on simlicity and privacy.
Your data never leaves your computer: no cloud storage, no browser extension.
Link to publicly hosted copy: http://averyn.net/paper.html
This project is basically just a glorified textbox. I'm sharing it here not because it's particularly inventive in and of itself, but because I've found it surprisingly useful, and I though that it might be of interest to others.
How I use this little editor:
I use this application for taking notes as I work throughout the day. I've used other note-taking tools in the past, but lately I've been trying to minimize the amount of data I store in the cloud. I could always use sublime or another text editor for taking notes, but I wanted something that I could use from my browser for jotting down ideas with minimal activitaion energy.
The application uses the following 5 lines of Javascript: this code keeps the title of the page
in sync with the title of the note, which means that a note titled noteName gets saved as noteName.html
titleInput = document.getElementById('titleInput');
titleInput.addEventListener("input", function (e) {
title = titleInput.value;
document.title = title != "" ? title : "untitled";
});When I want to save my note, I just save the whole page using ctrl-s,
to a "notes" directory on my desktop. Firefox also saves the contents of the textbox in the saved
page-source. That way, when I want to view or edit my note, I can just open
up ~/Desktop/notes/noteName.html in my browser, and overwrite the saved file
if I make any changes.
I've found that, since I made this tool, I've gotten a lot better about writing notes and making lists as I work. This tool encourages me to dump my thoughts periodically, in part because it feels even more "lightweight" than making a new Google Doc or firing up a text editor - it's like digital scratch-paper! And best of all, my data never leaves my computer!
Screenshot:
