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Show HN: Blank Slate, just start typing
- __xtrimsky 12y agoThere are many similar services, I personnaly prefer this one that generates a URL I can share with someone: http://notepad.cc/ http://notepad.cc/
- character 12y agolooks like Blank Slate can also do that (notes start as private but you can "publish" them, giving you a public URL). Other cool things about this one are that it is open source (https://github.com/tomasienrbc/notes https://github.com/tomasienrbc/notes) and that there are extensions, for instance to turn your note into a Google Doc. It also works with markdown so you can make bulleted lists and such.
- personlurking 12y agoAlso one can enter the following in the URL bar: data:text/html, <html contenteditable> But it's different from Blank Slate in that it doesn't allow for saving quickly (I make a PDF or take a screen shot if I need what I write for later referencing).
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- captn3m0 12y agoSigned up. Like it. Tried changing urls, got 200 on private links. Should be a 401, or a 404.
- normloman 12y agoThis is what I use http://pcache.alexa.com/images/settings/windows7/notepad-blank.bb647ae001a4fc7d168c240e01088787.png http://pcache.alexa.com/images/settings/windows7/notepad-bla...
- lmnm 12y agoI'm also a big fan of using standard notepad programs (this, TextEdit on OS X) but struggle to find a good program for mobile note taking. Any suggestions for iOS or Android?
- danuker 12y agoDoes Evernote suit your fancy?
- mynegation 12y agoI use Notebooks[1] on iOS. The big draw of this application for me is the ability to synchronize via WebDAV. I do not want to store my notes on any 3rd party server, but want to be able to access them on mobile devices and this is the compromise that I found. On Mac OS X, I use nvALT[2] setup to use the same directory. The directory itself is inside EncFS filesystem, which is mounted over cyphertext directory inside Dropbox so there is continuous encrypted sync as well. [1] http://www.notebooksapp.com/ http://www.notebooksapp.com/ [2] http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/ http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/
- tnorthcutt 12y agoI use iA Writer on iOS, coupled with nvAlt on Mac. They both read/write from the same dropbox directory. You might also like Drafts for iOS - it's really more for write --> push to x service, but it does that really well.
- bananaoomarang 12y agoI use Jotterpad on Android and it works well, also can sync to Dropbox (though I can't testify that works well, as I haven't yet)
- chadk 12y agoI Use nvALT on OS X, and Drafts on Android.
- FreakyT 12y agoI love that you have automatic bulleted lists! Any chance it'll have automatic numbered lists as well in a future version?
- Milner08 12y agoI got an SSL error on Ubuntu, also it showed me the OSX keyboard shortcut's (At least the icons were for an apple keyboard)
- Nusyne 12y agoTyped the following : hello ----- hello a scroll bar appeared, could not see first line anymore without scrolling up.
- Sir_Cmpwn 12y agoYet another entry in the growing list of websites whose creators didn't bother testing in anything other than Chrome.
- readme 12y agoYou could have just said: "you need to test this in other browsers" http://blog.ycombinator.com/new-hacker-news-guideline http://blog.ycombinator.com/new-hacker-news-guideline and your comment would have been more concise and less gratuitously negative. Same goes for the commenter bragging about how many bugs he's found and how "insecure" this app is. You could just tell him what the problems are. It's a show and tell project, be nice.
- Sir_Cmpwn 12y agoI was intentionally shaming him. The problem is becoming much more widespread and it's the product of simple laziness.
- tomasien 12y agoSupporting Firefox and IE are decisions. I choose not to do it until something I've built had had consistent usage for a few months. Then I spend the time and support them but it's a pain. I test on chrome and safari web and mobile (blankslate is not a good mobile experience mind you). I'll jump in and fix the known Firefox layout weirdness soon but it's not laziness, it's a choice. Instead of doing that I built a google docs integration and PDF converter, I felt that was more worthwhile. You don't, that's fine. As for the commenter saying he hacks my stuff, he has told me the problems and I appreciate it as I always do. He's always been a dick about it for some reason but that's his prerogative. I hope he keeps hacking what he thinks of as my projects (almost everything he's hacked before was something I was either re-coding or didn't code at all).
- Sir_Cmpwn 12y agoThis is your project? This is a choice, sure, but it's a choice to be lazy, at the expense of 10-20% (depending on your source) of users. It's probably higher still for a technical audience, which effectively removes IE and boosts Firefox through anti-google users.
- blueflow 12y agoOnly 3 lines are visible and my Keyboard doesn't have that 88-Key. Seems to be a Mac-Only thingie.
- tomasien 12y agoUse "control" not the Mac key sorry! Are you windows? What browser? I don't have the ability to test on Windows or IE and neither does my co-creator (who posted the link).
- pluma 12y agoIt also shows the Mac shortcuts on Linux.
- cheeseprocedure 12y agoMicrosoft has a number of free VMs available for testing various Internet Explorer/Windows platform combinations: https://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools https://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools
- blueflow 12y agoIm using Linux Debian stable and firefox
- temuze 12y agoUbuntu 12, Firefox - could only see three lines before a scroll bar happened. Also, I was able to type outside of the main textbox for some reason.
- halosghost 12y ago> Unacceptable TLS Certificate It would be really nice if the new services commonly showcased on "Show HN" would take the time to correctly implement HTTPS. In fact, since my browser is set to strict-ssl enforcement, I cannot load the webpage at all.
- hn_ 12y agoI have my browser set to everything default and I get: blankslate.io uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because no issuer chain was provided. (Error code: sec_error_unknown_issuer)
- agwa 12y agoIndeed, the site is being served without a proper certificate chain: https://whatsmychaincert.com/?blankslate.io https://whatsmychaincert.com/?blankslate.io
- larssorenson 12y agoAlso vulnerable to POODLE. https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=blankslate.io https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=blankslate.io
- rubyrescue 12y agoThis is similar to http://wrttn.in http://wrttn.in, which a HN member created.
- kirchhoff 12y agoNot a fan of overriding default shortcuts (ctrl-p)
- SaltyMaia 12y agoOnly 3 lines visible on scroll. Why would i use this over Sublime Text? Why is it even trending?
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- kkl 12y agoThis is a poisonous attitude to have with regards to the security of applications that you built. I hope that you take these claims seriously. Otherwise, I have no desire to use anything that you have built.
- tomasien 12y agoI took the claims seriously and fixed the problems. I take people being a self aggrandizing jerk on a show HN just as seriously. I certainly may deserve shit but the OP my co-collaborator on the project certainly does not, nor does anyone who comes here to share their projects. Helpful criticism and critique is what we come here for. We can get crapped on needlessly anywhere else on the Internet
- espitia 12y agoA bit off topic but pertains to your question: I made an iOS app with Parse.com for my backend[1]. Should I worry about others breaking in to my user's info? What can I do to protect their data? [1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/habit-streaks-create-good/id888808618?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/habit-streaks-create-good/id...
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- ebbv 12y agoI'm really surprised the author would release this without even making Command+A (Select All) work.
- xasos 12y agoResponsiveness breaks on iPad 4th Gen
- tomasien 12y agoIt's not a good mobile experience yet. It uses almost exclusively native functionality to the <textarea> element without modification and that just sucks in basically all mobile browsers. I've been thinking about the best way to sustain a solid mobile version, I'll crack that code eventually.
- floor__ 12y agoThis is so cool. What a creative idea. Wish I had thought of it :(
- hellbanner 12y agovim i: just start typing