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The most annoying aspect of blogging for me is terrible phone support. If someone can figure out how to get iOS Notes published on the internet, I would love t

The most annoying aspect of blogging for me is terrible phone support. If someone can figure out how to get iOS Notes published on the internet, I would love that workflow.

cssanchez 2y ago
Might be able to find services that publish posts from emails. Then it's just a matter of writing an email from your phone.
- zimpenfish 2y ago
  > Might be able to find services that publish posts from emails. Posterous[0] used to do that and it was good. Then they sold their souls to Twitter and, obviously, all the good went away after a year. (one of the founders then launched Posthaven[1] but a) fool me once, etc., and b) he's an intensely problematic lunatic.) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterous [1] https://posthaven.com https://posthaven.com
- n_ary 2y ago
  Might not be a blog, but hxxps://daft.social posts are done by sending an e-mail. P.S. Not affiliated
aspenmayer 2y ago
I haven’t used this service, but it does have some kind of integrated publishing feature. https://standardnotes.com/ https://standardnotes.com/
voltaireodactyl 2y ago
Take a look at these, which provide exactly that: 1. https://docs.alto.so/mac https://docs.alto.so/mac 2. https://montaigne.io/ https://montaigne.io/
devrsi0n 2y ago
I build https://quotion.co https://quotion.co just for this purpose, you can publish blog with just Apple Notes. Feel free to give it a shot
simonw 2y ago
I did an experiment with ChatGPT for this recently. I run my blog using Django, and the Django Admin has a feature where you can construct a link to an "add post" page with query string parameters that pre-populate that form. I set up a GPT (a custom ChatGPT with a system prompt) with these instructions: You help me write new items for my link blog by generating URLs to the Django admin that prefill the new blog entry form The URL you generate always starts like this: https://simonwillison.net/admin/blog/blogmark/add/?use_markdown=1 Then you add more URL encoded pairs: link_title is the title of the link link_url is the URL slug is the URL slug used on my site - it should be the title in lower case with dashes instead of spaces and with stop words removed via_url is optional - it’s the via URL via_title is optional too commentary is the longest field - it’s the markdown for my blog entry. It should usually include more markdown links. I will paste in notes, you turn them into a link to this URL Now I can copy and paste rough notes from my iPhone notes app - with the title of a link, the URL, a bunch of notes and maybe a "via XXX" text at the bottom - and it will generate a working link like this one: https://simonwillison.net/admin/blog/blogmark/add/?use_markdown=1&link_title=Zero-latency%20SQLite%20storage%20in%20every%20Durable%20Object&link_url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.cloudflare.com%2Fsqlite-in-durable-objects%2F&slug=zero-latency-sqlite-storage-durable-object&commentary=Kenton%20Varda%20introduces%20the%20next%20iteration%20of%20Cloudflare%27s%20%5BDurable%20Object%5D(https%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.cloudflare.com%2Fdurable-objects%2F)%20platform%2C%20which%20recently%20upgraded%20from%20a%20key%2Fvalue%20store%20to%20a%20full%20relational%20system%20based%20on%20SQLite.%0A%0AThis%20is%20a%20fascinating%20piece%20of%20distributed%20system%20design%2C%20enabling%20a%20really%20interesting%20way%20to%20architect%20a%20large%20scale%20application.%0A%0AThe%20key%20idea%20behind%20Durable%20Objects%20is%20to%20colocate%20application%20logic%20with%20the%20data%20it%20operates%20on.%20A%20Durable%20Object%20is%20a%20code%20instance%20on%20the%20same%20physical%20host%20as%20the%20SQLite%20database%20that%20it%20operates%20on%2C%20resulting%20in%20blazingly%20fast%20read%20and%20write%20performance. That example won't work for anyone who isn't me because you need to be signed into the Django Admin to view the link, but here's a screenshot of what I get: https://gist.github.com/simonw/3bb63ff855854c0bc7856567f7a5e8e3?permalink_comment_id=5234772#gistcomment-5234772 https://gist.github.com/simonw/3bb63ff855854c0bc7856567f7a5e... I haven't been using it though, because it takes too long for ChatGPT to type out that URL one URL-escaped character at a time.
indulona 2y ago
blogging from your phone is a sign if insanity.
- msephton 2y ago
  I do it often, to get a draft down or an edit done. But not really from blank file to published post.

The most annoying aspect of blogging for me is terrible phone support. If someone can figure out how to get iOS Notes published on the internet, I would love that workflow.

cssanchez 2y ago

Might be able to find services that publish posts from emails. Then it's just a matter of writing an email from your phone.

zimpenfish 2y ago
> Might be able to find services that publish posts from emails. Posterous[0] used to do that and it was good. Then they sold their souls to Twitter and, obviously, all the good went away after a year. (one of the founders then launched Posthaven[1] but a) fool me once, etc., and b) he's an intensely problematic lunatic.) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterous [1] https://posthaven.com https://posthaven.com
n_ary 2y ago
Might not be a blog, but hxxps://daft.social posts are done by sending an e-mail. P.S. Not affiliated

aspenmayer 2y ago

I haven’t used this service, but it does have some kind of integrated publishing feature. https://standardnotes.com/ https://standardnotes.com/

voltaireodactyl 2y ago

Take a look at these, which provide exactly that: 1. https://docs.alto.so/mac https://docs.alto.so/mac 2. https://montaigne.io/ https://montaigne.io/

devrsi0n 2y ago

I build https://quotion.co https://quotion.co just for this purpose, you can publish blog with just Apple Notes. Feel free to give it a shot

simonw 2y ago

I did an experiment with ChatGPT for this recently. I run my blog using Django, and the Django Admin has a feature where you can construct a link to an "add post" page with query string parameters that pre-populate that form. I set up a GPT (a custom ChatGPT with a system prompt) with these instructions: You help me write new items for my link blog by generating URLs to the Django admin that prefill the new blog entry form The URL you generate always starts like this: https://simonwillison.net/admin/blog/blogmark/add/?use_markdown=1 Then you add more URL encoded pairs: link_title is the title of the link link_url is the URL slug is the URL slug used on my site - it should be the title in lower case with dashes instead of spaces and with stop words removed via_url is optional - it’s the via URL via_title is optional too commentary is the longest field - it’s the markdown for my blog entry. It should usually include more markdown links. I will paste in notes, you turn them into a link to this URL Now I can copy and paste rough notes from my iPhone notes app - with the title of a link, the URL, a bunch of notes and maybe a "via XXX" text at the bottom - and it will generate a working link like this one: https://simonwillison.net/admin/blog/blogmark/add/?use_markdown=1&link_title=Zero-latency%20SQLite%20storage%20in%20every%20Durable%20Object&link_url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.cloudflare.com%2Fsqlite-in-durable-objects%2F&slug=zero-latency-sqlite-storage-durable-object&commentary=Kenton%20Varda%20introduces%20the%20next%20iteration%20of%20Cloudflare%27s%20%5BDurable%20Object%5D(https%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.cloudflare.com%2Fdurable-objects%2F)%20platform%2C%20which%20recently%20upgraded%20from%20a%20key%2Fvalue%20store%20to%20a%20full%20relational%20system%20based%20on%20SQLite.%0A%0AThis%20is%20a%20fascinating%20piece%20of%20distributed%20system%20design%2C%20enabling%20a%20really%20interesting%20way%20to%20architect%20a%20large%20scale%20application.%0A%0AThe%20key%20idea%20behind%20Durable%20Objects%20is%20to%20colocate%20application%20logic%20with%20the%20data%20it%20operates%20on.%20A%20Durable%20Object%20is%20a%20code%20instance%20on%20the%20same%20physical%20host%20as%20the%20SQLite%20database%20that%20it%20operates%20on%2C%20resulting%20in%20blazingly%20fast%20read%20and%20write%20performance. That example won't work for anyone who isn't me because you need to be signed into the Django Admin to view the link, but here's a screenshot of what I get: https://gist.github.com/simonw/3bb63ff855854c0bc7856567f7a5e8e3?permalink_comment_id=5234772#gistcomment-5234772 https://gist.github.com/simonw/3bb63ff855854c0bc7856567f7a5e... I haven't been using it though, because it takes too long for ChatGPT to type out that URL one URL-escaped character at a time.

indulona 2y ago

blogging from your phone is a sign if insanity.

msephton 2y ago
I do it often, to get a draft down or an edit done. But not really from blank file to published post.