[HN Gopher] Show HN: Writedown - Open Source Markdown Diary ___________________________________________________________________ Show HN: Writedown - Open Source Markdown Diary Author : NayamAmarshe Score : 33 points Date : 2023-06-24 19:23 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (writedown.app) (TXT) w3m dump (writedown.app) | NayamAmarshe wrote: | Hiya Hackers! | | For the past few months, I've been working on writedown | (https://writedown.app, | https://github.com/NayamAmarshe/writedown). A free and open | source markdown editor that focuses on UI and UX. It's made to be | simple and beautiful but still powerful. | | writedown has live markdown preview (option to disable this also | coming soon), offline support, PWA and cloud sync. | | You can also share your posts with other people | (https://writedown.app/DhpDKTulcnOecM3wYt4AOiWiuGE3/posts/82f...) | and download your posts in PDF, Markdown or HTML format. | | Please do tell me how you like it and if you think it's useful | (or not). I've been trying to create something simple that I | could use for my personal notes, notes that I can share with my | friends and so writedown came into existence. | | I hope you like it and if you don't, I'd love to know the | reasons. This is our second MVP and we're sharing this public | beta with you all. | | Thank you :) | | Source Code: https://github.com/NayamAmarshe/writedown | outwit wrote: | An option to try it without logging in would be nice. Since it | has offline support it seems like that should be possible? | NayamAmarshe wrote: | Yes, we were actually working on it too but had to prioritize | some other things. | | In future though, we'll surely be adding the ability to use | the editor without logging in so. Login will be there if you | want to save the notes via cloud sync :) | dariosalvi78 wrote: | Reminds me of Joplin | iot_devs wrote: | So if you guys are into diary and personal note keeping I am just | working on a telegram bot that do just that. | | @Simple_DIary_bot | | That you can use: http://t.me/Simple_DIary_bot | | I wanted it to work with audio messages so you can just send an | audio message that is send to openai whisper and a text is | extracted. | | It also send an reminder everyday so that I don't forget my daily | entry. | | Technically it is all based on AWS Lambda and Dynamodb. | NayamAmarshe wrote: | Ah, pretty cool! | | I use Telegram for notes/journals too but it doesn't support | markdown and that's how I got the idea for writedown haha. | justsomehnguy wrote: | Huh? Telegram does support md (in it's own flavour)? | NayamAmarshe wrote: | Lists, headings, images are not supported + there's a | character limit. | talloaktrees wrote: | I like this a lot, can you talk about what you are doing to | protect user's private data? that's something I'd want to be | convinced about before I use it. | NayamAmarshe wrote: | On the privacy front, we're never going to compromise the user | data, never going to sell it, never going to share it with | anybody else. We'll be making writedown self-hostable as well. | | On the security front, we're using firebase firestore as the | database. So at rest, it's well encrypted. | | We're thinking of introducing some sort of encryption via | passwords (kinda how I already am doing it on | https://maglit.me). E2EE would be quite difficult and would | affect the usability. | anaganisk wrote: | The problem with Firebase I've seen is not the E2EE but | rather the ACLs being set. There have been 10s of websites | that were exposed to public, that have been exposed in the | recent past. Not to claim you are doing something wrong, just | a caution to anyone who uses firebase. | laurent123456 wrote: | Is encryption at rest that useful? These days it's trivial to | enable full disk encryption on most systems so it's not so | important what individual apps are doing. | | E2EE is definitely important however, personally I wouldn't | use a journaling app that doesn't have this. In which way | would it affect usability? | NayamAmarshe wrote: | Here's some more information about the encryption: | https://cloud.google.com/firestore/docs/server-side- | encrypti... | | > In which way would it affect usability? | | Cloud sync would be quite difficult and I'd like to avoid | the backup-restore game that most other apps don't seem to | mind, because writedown's focus is on reducing complexity | for people. | | I'm not someone who uses Notion, I find it rather | complicated and most apps that I've tried just try to do | too much. Telegram is great for storing notes but it | doesn't support markdown. | | Handling the keys with E2EE is a big challenge. There's not | a normal way to use E2EE without affecting the sync | capabilities, login capabilities, offline capabilities or | usability. | ohgodplsno wrote: | Considering you use Firebase,"we're never going to sell your | data" is something I've heard a lot, until the first Firebase | invoices come in. | kervantas wrote: | So rentry.org, but with a live markdown preview and log in | requirement. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-06-24 23:00 UTC)