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Ask HN: An instant personalized info dump for the web.

3 pointsby cruxover 16 years ago
So, Hacker News,<p>I was sitting with a couple of friends last week at their office and we were going over a bunch of notes and potential solutions for their website. At the end of the session I wanted to make a quick note of all the tabs I had open, just dump the relevant google searches and URLs with notes on what they'd be good for.<p>But this wasn't my computer. I had my iPhone but I wasn't about to retype all the information that was already on my screen, on my little phone, just to get into Evernote. I could have logged into Evernote or Backpack from there and copied it in, but I didn't want to go through the hassle; I eventually went through the similar hassle of logging them out of GMail, logging myself in, sending us all a message, then logging myself out. That was clearly less than optimal; in addition to the time and many clicks and loadtimes (and 'no, don't remember my password' boxes) I had to wonder how many cookies I was strewing all over their machine.<p>What would have been nice is a box that I could navigate to on the web and enter text into, which would accept any input I pasted in. It wouldn't let me see it afterwards, of course, because it wouldn't ask for auth first; I'd have to log in later and see all my items. I would just need some unique (google-invisible, I guess) URL.<p>I've got my own server, so I could host an install; I could also of course simply reserve for crux.myawesomeapp.net and have someone else do it. Does this thing exist? If not, what do others do for this kind of thing?

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timfover 16 years ago
So input requires knowing unique URL -- what about if the retrieval did too instead of it being behind a login?<p>If interested, see: "What's a private pastebin and how do I get one?"<p><a href="http://pastebin.com/pastebin.php?help=1" rel="nofollow">http://pastebin.com/pastebin.php?help=1</a>
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mikeyurover 16 years ago
What about Jottit? <a href="http://jottit.com" rel="nofollow">http://jottit.com</a><p>I'm absolutely in love with it, using it as a simple personal wiki.<p>After you create one the first time you can make it private/password-protected if you wish. Just dump info in, hit submit, done.
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timfover 16 years ago
How about an input box at the secret URL that sends an email. Someone at work uses that trick for a quick, anonymous documentation feedback option on each doc page footer.