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Simple text editor has over 15k monthly users
- keyle 7y agoYou know it's fairly trivial to do this in html with a few lines of code... HTML Editable, save to local storage; pretty handy stuff. Has anyone built a substantial one like this for their own use?
- ent101 7y agoI wonder what people use this for as it is too simple -- in my opinion at least.
- cocochanel 7y agoUse myTextarea to type plain text to remove markup from text to count words and characters
- bentcorner 7y agoFor the first two I usually do Win+R, paste, Ctrl+A, copy.
- acid__ 7y agoTry Ctrl+Shift+V instead of Ctrl+V for a “plain paste”
- egypturnash 7y agocmd-shift-v does this on Macs, as well.
- skrebbel 7y agoI've found that this doesn't consistently work across applications (win 10), does anyone else here experience the same and/or have an idea why this is the case?
- JoBrad 7y agoI thought it was something an application had to implement, but apparently it is a Windows function that applications have to enable. Definitely wish it was an OS-wide shortcut. https://www.howtogeek.com/186723/ask-htg-how-can-i-paste-text-without-the-formatting/ https://www.howtogeek.com/186723/ask-htg-how-can-i-paste-tex...
- einr 7y agoPro tip: https://stevemiller.net/puretext/ https://stevemiller.net/puretext/
- keyle 7y agoyeah I do that with sublime text...
- HenryBemis 7y ago1) Notepad 2) Notepad 3) Word offline trustworthy solutions for Windows And most of all I don't have to worry about losing control over the text. The only benefit I see (if it is possible) is collaboration, but on a work-related environment why use a text instead of Google Docs (which I don't use either, but I see the benefit of audit trail)
- JoBrad 7y agoNotepad2 does all of this.
- brntn 7y agoI build a little scratchpad for personal use: https://sesh.github.io/scratchpad/ https://sesh.github.io/scratchpad/ I guess for the most part these sort of things start off solving a personal problem. Getting 15k monthly users is very impressive!
- taneq 7y ago> You know it's fairly trivial to do this in html with a few lines of code If it wasn't then it wouldn't be a very good "world's simplest text editor", would it now? :P Edit: It looks small enough that you could probably turn it into a bookmarklet so it wouldn't even need a server. Now that would be awesome.
- bachmeier 7y agoIf you want to save to local storage with a fancy WYSIWYG, here's an 18-line html file that calls the Trix CDN: https://gist.github.com/bachmeil/7c19e72b9a5c49a85e8cecb0b7a7f3ca https://gist.github.com/bachmeil/7c19e72b9a5c49a85e8cecb0b7a... Can't say I use it very often, but it was cool being able to do it in a few minutes even though I'm not a web developer.
- qwerty456127 7y agoGiven the amount of unused space in the toolbar I believe you can safely add some handy features without making it worse in any sense so even more people would appreciate it. I'd add regex search&replace (with support to add/replace newline and tab symbols) and codepage conversion (including support for decrypting wrong codepage text and encoding/decoding the selected text as a URL replacing non-latin symbols with their codes and vice versa).
- mkoryak 7y agoRight now it does this one thing pretty well. Adding more features is not always the answer.
- hajimemash 7y agoWow! How do you know it has over 15k monthly users?
- ent101 7y agoIt says so in the "Show info" section. Alexa stats check out too.
- Mikhail_Edoshin 7y agoThere seems to be Google Analytics in the source.
- dang 7y agoStarted on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3631917 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3631917 Follow-up a year later: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6366724 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6366724
- scrame 7y agoHuh. Pretty cool. I can't set a filename on firefox, but I like that the style is bigger than the actual markup.
- goodside 7y agoThat’s not the world’s simplest text editor. This is: data:text/html, <html contenteditable> That’s a working URL. Paste it into your browser. Bookmark it for later. No distracting GUI. No superfluous features like “save” or “open”. Does not track active user statistics. Works offline.
- jabits 7y agoNeat! So simple.
- ent101 7y agoThat's actually pretty awesome!
- sandoooo 7y agoI don't think it counts if it can't actually edit text, i.e. open and save at minimum.
- goodside 7y agoIt’s a text editor. It can edit text just fine. If you need to do esoteric stuff like opening/saving you might as well install Visual Studio or something.
- zzo38computer 7y agoYou can open and save. Just use the browser's save function, to save a local HTML file. (At least on my computer, this saves the text you put in, at least if you select the "complete" option when saving.) You can then recall that file just as easily. Of course, it will only save as HTML and recall the same HTML file you saved in this way, and doesn't support plain text files. But, nevertheless, you can open and save.
- _carl_jung 7y agoYou can even export as PDF and print
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- starpilot 7y agoNow... is it ramen profitable?
- classified 7y agoGood question. It will only be a matter of time until you need a browser and an internet connection to blink your eye or take a breath. Google will be up your every orifice. I bet they'll find a way to make a profit from that.
- bostik 7y agoMaybe they can convince and buy pro.be domain from the Belgian registry (who have marked it as "not available"). That way you could have a subdomain for every conceivable phenomenon, surface and orifice.
- Galaco 7y agoInteresting idea, but realised that I can't use undo/redo after pressing Tab (at least on FireFox); it immediately made the experience awkward and more complicated.
- classified 7y agoWorld's simplest text editor is: $ cat > edited.txt Enter text, hit ^D when you're done. If you pray hard enough, Google will find a way to let you do that in a browser, so someone can count MAUs.
- raverbashing 7y agoYeah but can you edit text? You can only input it. Readline and shell edit commands are a better text editor than simply cat. echo "Your text here edited as you want" > edited.txt
- classified 7y agoYou are right of course, I was just aiming for the simplest possible editor. Would you agree that having support for backspace still just barely counts as editing?
- Drakar1903 7y agoOnly in the same way as when you can write down 10^20 as 10+10+10+10+10+...
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- rhabarba 7y ago"World's simplest text editor" sends 13 requests to a web server, including one to world's leading spyware company. No, thank you.
- vijucat 7y agoExactly. I can't imagine why anyone would use a web site for drafting text, especially "temporary" drafts, which are probably more in need of privacy than the subsequent text that we publish / send out! What I do is have OneNote open all the time. It's blocked by the firewall from contacting the web and all notebooks are local. As an upside: if the temporary text turns into something substantial, you can use OneNote's organizing features to organize it, too. AKOO: Always Keep OneNote Open :-)
- rhabarba 7y ago(Insert the usual discussion about org-mode here.) ;-)
- mostlystatic 7y agoI use https://bigtextbox.com/ https://bigtextbox.com/ a lot, as a nicer way to leave a note in the browser than doing a Google search.
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- torgian 7y agoAs I'm sitting here with my pencil, paper, and eraser ( some pencils come with erasers! ), I wonder what could be easier than this kind of text editor.
- tiborsaas 7y agoI use this site for utilising the browsers spell checker :)
- purplezooey 7y agoHow does the author make any money... I see no ads
- JDiculous 7y agoHere's a free minimal text editor I wrote: https://www.writepad.xyz https://www.writepad.xyz (or https://writepad.netlify.com https://writepad.netlify.com) Features: - Works offline - Autosaves to local storage - Downloadable as PWA (Progressive Web App) on mobile - Dark mode