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Products that do what Simplenote – Notes with support for publishing (hosted, Markdown) does
I use Simplenote for journaling and creating itineraries for my wife and I (publish as a webpage and send link). It's great. Robust export options too. I used to use Obsidian + iCloud sync daemon to facilitate continuity between my Windows desktop and my Macbook, but I started getting sync issues on Windows and a couple BSODs due to how the iCloud daemon handles timestamps. I picked up Simplenote and it's been working flawlessly. Very underrated IMO.
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I wanted to see how far I could go building a notes app using only what modern browsers already provide – no frameworks, no storage APIs, no build step. What it does: Single HTML file, no deps, 111 loc Notes live in the URL hash (shareable links!) Auto-compressed with CompressionStream Plain-text editor (contenteditable) History support Page title from first # heading Respects light/dark mode No storage, cookies, or tracking The entire app is the page source. https://textarea.my/
Dec 2025 · github.com
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I'm not the author of the app (nor i have any connection with them, just a random user). iA Writer and Writer Pro aren't well suited for me as a developer. They feel quite "strange" to me. Mou is a good option (free too) but still missing some features. So far this, this editor is the most complete user-friendly. Hope it helps!
2013 · clockworkengine.com
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2018 · umbrellanote.com
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2017 · mikescher.github.io
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