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vallode | 1 year ago

For what it's worth, I have a bookmarklet with these contents:

  data:text/html,<body contenteditable style="line-height:1.5;font-size:22px;max-width:75ch">type here...

I use this _all_ the time for very quick note taking and writing that will later be copied elsewhere, think one to three sentences and then offload.

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pferde|1 year ago

I just hit Win+K, and my OS runs a simple text editor of my choice for me.

Maybe I'm getting old, but using a browser for something you have available natively seems like an antipattern to me.

stronglikedan|1 year ago

Those type of people live and work in the browser. Everything's a PWA. Little to no native app use. Like to manage apps (windows) by browser tab management instead of OS management. At least it's consistent across devices!

dspillett|1 year ago

Nice. I'll have to look into how localStorage works in such contexts, and if that is not badly maybe knock together a bookmarklet that does that but keeps text in case I accidentally close the window before I should (or Windows, when I'm using that, decides to reboot, as it is wont to do).

crazygringo|1 year ago

Oh thanks, that's genius! I just modified it to be monospace and I can guarantee you it'll be my new favorite bookmark.

Too bad its contents won't persist across a restart or accidental close tab, but as a scratch pad it's fantastic.