An new instant note-taking web app.

would also be cool to have a code highlight.. (ala https://refheap.com/paste )

Feedback:

1. The inability to protect a note or do anything beyond create a note may fit the "simple" mantra it does not create good usability. There are so many essential features (no matter how simple the site is) that are missing. What if someone guesses my URL? What if I don't want anyone else to see my note(s)? I tried signing up and got "Thank You for signing up. We will notify you when user-specific features become available."

2. The ability to edit other peoples notes can create value with collaboration but it needs to be real time. If I open a note in another tab, edit it then switch back to the first tab and edit it I've just overwritten everything that the other edits contained. This is a big problem.

3. (Personal opinion with no real justification beyond personal preference) why have you put adverts on this? For me if you're building something that is "simple" and then putting adverts on it seems a contradiction, now instead of a basic notepad I have a basic notepad with a flash advert distracting me from the actual purpose of the site: typing. Yes, if you had large costs to cover it would be understandable, but you don't.

This isn't a bad start, the design is nice but "simple" is not synonymous for "lack of features", it means something is easy to use but has enough depth to make it usable, this doesn't. A very basic revision history is necessary at the very least, although personally I'd use one of the already existing text tools (pastebin, pastie, hastebin) or for collaboration google docs.

Personally I think if you were to expand this into having real time collaboration, customisation of permissions (using the "account" system?) and revision history it would become something worth having bookmarked :)

Edit: seems this is just a resubmit from a couple of days ago, not sure why it seems to match the previous comments, have you made any changes? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3719057

This is similar to http://notepad.cc but not better than it.

The homepage gets stuck in an refresh loop in some browsers (i.e. IE9). You've missed the 'url=' directive in the attribute:

Use this instead:

Or, better yet, just set 'document.location' (adds history item) or use 'document.location.replace()' (no history item) in script.

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_refresh

http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/reback

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/document.location

'tab' should insert a tab character, not kick me out of the text box =(