Works on Safari, Chrome, Firefox, but not in IE
Turn your browser into a notepad with one line
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Re: Turn your browser into a notepad with one line
#52http://dontpad.com can help you guys! :)
Minimal and disposable browser notepad with friendly URLs being used to save/password protect files.
Re: Turn your browser into a notepad with one line
#53Forgive me for the shameless plug...but thought this might be useful for other HNers and related to OP. I put together a little project that uses the browsers localstorage so you can jot notes down and come back to them, I find it useful as I'm always in the browser, hope you do too: http://a5.gg
FYI local storage is not reliable, so you may want to think about a fallback, or at least putting a disclaimer explaining that what you write will probably but nitndefinitely still be there when you come back.
Re: Turn your browser into a notepad with one line
#54This is what the scratch (EDIT: read scratch as * scratch * without the spaces--is there any way to escape that properly on HN?) buffer is for in Emacs, and I find it extremely useful. Also, unlike using a different tool, it allows me to use all the Emacs-specific features I usually rely on. (For example, I can easily type special characters like r₁ × r₂ ≈ r₃ using the TeX mode.) If you want more than one scratch buf…
There's also a "scratch" plugin for vim that offers similar functionality: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=664
Re: Turn your browser into a notepad with one line
#55In the summer of 2011 an infinite textarea was posted to HN. You'd be in replace mode per default, and you could share it by URL. It would automatically save. I'd be delighted if someone knows its name.
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#56I think the best part is how short and elegant it is.
I assume a lot of people won’t realize you can bookmark that URL since it looks so weird. Also, once you’re bookmarking, you can cheat and put more logic into the page. I made a slightly improved one with a dark background and larger font (hard to post the link on HN, so on a separate page):
Re: Turn your browser into a notepad with one line
#57For even more fun, turn your notepad into an interactive JavaScript environment: data:text/html, Then you can upgrade it by pasting in something like this: this.onkeyup = function () { this.style.backgroundColor = 'white'; try { eval(this.innerText); } catch (e) { this.style.backgroundColor = '#FFAAAA'; } }
Typing `alert("hi")` was a bad choice.
That's exactly what I did.
Re: Turn your browser into a notepad with one line
#58Now I just need to code up a quick "send to Gist" bookmarklet and I'm set.
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#59This is the best post since Al Gore invented the internet!
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#60Ah shoot. If Chrome allowed localStorage to be accessible from file:/// then we could add save (CTRL+S) and automatic load using this: data:text/html, window.onload=function(){var a=document.body;a.innerText=localStorage.mydoc;a.addEventListener("keydown",function(b){b.ctrlKey&&83==b.which&&(localStorage.mydoc=a.innerHTML,b.preventDefault())},!1)}; Firefox will save it to localStorage but clear the local storage afte…
That is so cool :). I just slapped together a (really) simple chrome ext for opening up a new tab in "contenteditable" mode. It saves the contents into localStorage, thats it for now :) Here it is if anyones interested https://github.com/jwaterfaucett/textpad