So rentry.org, but with a live markdown preview and log in requirement.
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Huh? Telegram does support md (in it's own flavour)?
Lists, headings, images are not supported + there's a character limit.
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#13I 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.
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 w…
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?
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 w…
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?
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.
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#15I 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.
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 w…
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.
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#16I 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.
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 w…
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.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
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…
There would be extra complexity for sure, especially with key management, but I don't think it would affect sync much. It's end-to-end so by definition it should only happen client-side, and instead of sending plaintext to the cloud your send the ciphertext.
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#18Hiya 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…
Looks cool! Curious how you envision the difference between using something like Obsidian (+ github for sync) or LogSeq vs Writedown? Do you plan on supporting networked thought features like concept graphs via hashtags & [[keyword links]] ?
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#19Been looking for a good mobile markdown editor for a blog so I love this. A few things:
* Github login is broken for me
* Lots of extra vertical space on the edit page on mobile when in landscape.
* Would be great if one of the publish options was to publish to a github repo for use with github pages!
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#20Where can I download an executable binary I can run directly on my system, ideally without having to make an account either? Those are two pretty important things for me