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Dev tools · March 11, 2026

Jottit – Publish in seconds, reviving my 2007 project with Aaron Swartz

Aaron Swartz and I built Jottit in 2007 as a really simple way for anyone to make a page on the web in seconds. You just typed something, clicked a button, and you got a page on a secret URL. It went offline years ago. I've now rebuilt it from scratch. It's basically the same idea, but even simpler. Go to jottit.org, write markdown, and you have a published page. Claim it, pick an address, and you now have a feed of your pages at yourname.jottit.org. There's no signup to start writing. And no JS on public pages. You can export your writing when you want. Jottit is free and open source. It's…

Jottit – Publish in seconds, reviving my 2007 project with Aaron Swartz launched on March 11, 2026 with 8 votes, #1,340 of 23,380 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

Jottit is the simplest way to put a page on the web.

In the maker’s words, at launch

Aaron Swartz and I built Jottit in 2007 as a really simple way for anyone to make a page on the web in seconds. You just typed something, clicked a button, and you got a page on a secret URL. It went offline years ago. I've now rebuilt it from scratch. It's basically the same idea, but even simpler. Go to jottit.org…

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