> human asked 'why did you do this?' i don't remember bro, context already evaporated

(In a thread about 'how I stopped losing context'). What a fun idea!

The leaf is password-protected

yeah i took down :/ The password is a natural force, often caused by water, that reshapes landscapes.

> ...that it was too difficult or inconvenient to write out full HTML by hand

It's not necessarily that writing HTML or other markup flavors is harder (obviously it is), but the beauty of Markdown for me is that it's perfectly readable in its raw form as well as with an applied styling.

And speaking of customizing the 'look' of markdown, a shameless plug for a markdown editor I've been working on with extensive customization options: https://kraa.io/about

Off-topic a little bit, but some feedback for your editor:

I saw Kraa when you posted it here on HN, and decided to give it another go, even though I remembered that I dismissed it quickly the first time.

I only got shy beyond the first line -- Kraa breaks words anywhere to wrap to the next line, really a no go for me, at least in Markdown (it's different if I enable word-wrap in my code editor).

Played around a little more and the editing experience is not great (for my needs):

- Kraa hides '#', so I can't remove the header style from headers. The context menu does not offer to change to paragraph style. - Kraa uses non-standart '[]' for tasks, instead of the more common '- [ ]' and '- [x]'.

Slick UI, sure. However if I cannot edit Markdown, I don't consider it a Markdown editor. Like Notion is also not a Markdown editor, even if I can type '# ' to get a heading.

Thank you, this is great feedback. I hope you will try to give Kraa another chance in the future as it should have at least these points covered.

- An option to render markdown syntax vs immediate translation is coming

- The horrendous bug around word-wrap (in firefox only) should be fixed within days

- adding [ ] for tasks as an alt to [].

As for changing paragraph style, this is purposefully 'hidden' inside the leaf settings (with tons of customization options for everything, not just paragraphs).

I've looked at your product before, but given that I can't self-host it and thus not control it, I think it's too vague on the security details. It does say some in the privacy policy, but there's no real details there. Given the potential sensitivity of personal notes, let alone work ones. Though, if that's no concern, I do think it looks good. So kudos in general. :) You planning to monetize it eventually?

Thanks! And fair enough, self-hosting isn't something we can easily do right now, but I can see why that would be a super valuable feature. For monetizaton – yes, we will soon have a 'pro' tier that will have more storage space for media.

Almost. <br> is sometimes requires, like multi-line table cells, which also requires the use of monospace fonts.

Blank page with JavaScript disabled says to me: nothing to see here, move along.

A missed opportunity to not have all of these examples inline. The page/blog-post would be so much more convincing if it utilized all of these HTML replacements instead (or in addition) to linking to codepen.

Absolutely mind boggling. I've seen it many times before. There's some FooMaker v1.0 announced and you click on it thinking it will allow to easily make Foo and the example is how to disable FooMaker's lights l while AC is running or some other obscure edge case that affects like one in a million people, no examples how to actually use it for most common use case or how the result look like.

I had assumed this was a 25 year old article at first glance. Those dithered gifs sure are a throwback!

I was also frustrated to find the examples weren't inline, but I think this is a guest blog post which makes it a bit more understandable.

I really like this from a privacy point of view. So much so that I'm thinking about adding a purely URL-storage solution as an option in my https://kraa.io editor.

From a privacy point of view, you might not want to use textarea.my since it includes some tracking bits at the end:

    <script defer src="https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vcd15cbe7772f49c399c6a5babf22c1241717689176015" integrity="sha512-ZpsOmlRQV6y907TI0dKBHq9Md29nnaEIPlkf84rnaERnq6zvWvPUqr2ft8M1aS28oN72PdrCzSjY4U6VaAw1EQ==" data-cf-beacon='{"version":"2024.11.0","token":"6a22b097a2b44fa4af0a95817ce96ab5","r":1,"server_timing":{"name":{"cfCacheStatus":true,"cfEdge":true,"cfExtPri":true,"cfL4":true,"cfOrigin":true,"cfSpeedBrain":true},"location_startswith":null}}' crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

The tracking isn’t in the html, and as it’s static, you can host it any other way you like

https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.githubusercontent...

From a privacy point of view how is it any better than just using a local, native text editor?

From purely privacy point of view it’s not. But if you also want markdown features, custom typography and easy sharing, this starts to make more sense.

Start writing / Leaf list Settings Press on "add tag to filter by" Type any character

Aand im dropped back to empty editor with just that one character visible

(Firefox 146.0.1 (Build #2016132551), 86bb7f6af6312ba3c0161085f854bcdff68f1a91 GV: 146.0.1-20251217121356 AS: 146.0.2 OS: Android 14)

I'd say about 60% correct: https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/levmiseri (not against Notion, plus some other made up stuff from the LLM)

But definitely a fun read!

A text editor that doesn't use AI is pretty much what I Show-HN-ed few days ago: https://kraa.io/about

I'll wait 10 years to post it again.

There is something oddly beautiful in invisible complexity. These little tweaks and minuscule details without which the whole would suffer in quality.

Fully agree on the importance of taking notes and writing in general [1], but I absolutely do not want to train a model on my texts or attempt a personal style imitation. I can't fully put my finger on why exactly other than that it feels icky and that it would hinder my long-term writing quality rather than help it.

[1] I made an app to be my lifelong companion for this: https://kraa.io/about – No AI integration.

It's free. And whatever you can use now will remain free. We will make sure to make this more obvious.

Our planned revenue is from a 'pro' tier that will have more storage space and potentially some advanced features and from selling short URLs (e.g. kraa.io/123).