I made a local web-based notes app in the spirit of "One Big Text File"
Textpod is a simple UI on top of a single notes.md file + a few features I always wanted: - add + in front of a link to fetch a local copy of the page (downloaded in the background using monolith[1]) - search is integrated into the note input, just start typing with / - attach images and other files (stored in 'attachments' directory) I made a 1-minute demo video (no sound) [2]. When you start the binary, the data is served from the current directory: the notes file and the attachments directory are created automatically. Run multiple instances from different directories, if needed (I…
I made a local web-based notes app in the spirit of "One Big Text File" launched on October 28, 2024 with 7 votes, #1,457 of 5,185 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
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Extremely simple note-taking app inspired by "One Big Text File" - freetonik/textpod
Local, web-based note-taking app inspired by "One Big Text File" idea. Short demo: cargo install textpod Via Homebrew (macOS and GNU/Linux) brew tap freetonik/tap brew install textpod In order to download webpages, you need to have monolith installed. cargo install monolith or brew install monolith (macOS). See monolith for more details. Run textpod in any directory. It will create a notes.md file if it doesn't exist. It will create attachments directory for file and image attachments. Webpages are saved in attachments/webpages . You can specify the port with -p flag, e.g. textpod -p 8080 and/or the address with -l flag, e.g. textpod -l 0.0.0.0 . You can customize keyboard shortcuts by…from github.com
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Textpod is a simple UI on top of a single notes.md file + a few features I always wanted: - add + in front of a link to fetch a local copy of the page (downloaded in the background using monolith[1]) - search is integrated into the note input, just start typing with / - attach images and other files (stored in…
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