Writebox – Syncs with Dropbox. Chrome, iOS, Web

Looks cool. I corrected some of your spelling and grammar errors. Many US customers distrust sites that have poor English in their copy. Hope it helps.<p>ID and Password<p>We don't store your Dropbox and Google Drive passwords. (We cannot access this information.)<p>We store your OAuth token for Dropbox and Google Drive in our server.<p>We store a cookie in your browser.<p>We store your e-mail address for Dropbox and Google Drive in our server. This is for you to identify what account you use on Writebox.<p>File Contents<p>We don't store your file contents in our server, but save in your local cache.<p>We don't read your file contents, we just convert file encoding to show characters correctly.<p>We store the filepath of the thing you last opened in Writebox in our server. This is for syncing the last edit of the file across devices.<p>Logging<p>We collect analytics data through Google Analytics when you using Writebox. This is for the purpose of service improvement.<p>We don't track individual users.

Probably not spelled right... but funny.<p>We don't store your file contents in our server, but save on your local for cash.<p>Need to change cash to cache maybe?... or maybe not. Nice biz model. :)

Chromebooks out of the box lack any kind of straightforward text editor which will edit local files and/or files on Google Drive. (Google Drive is much more convenient to use on chromebooks than Dropbox.) Writebox looks as if it might be a candidate to fill this void, for it loads and saves files on Google Drive, even though 'distraction-free' tends to be code for 'featureless'.<p>Unfortunately, it's got a serious bug, fatal for my usage, which the developer promised to fix over a month ago but which has not been fixed yet. If you edit and save a web page (i.e. an .html file) on Google Drive, Chrome OS no longer recognizes the file as a web page to be viewed in the browser, but only as a text file, to be viewed as text or edited.<p>Eventually, this might be a good app. In the meantime, if you need a text editor for a chromebook, put it in developer mode, install Ubuntu 'cli-extras' with the Crouton script, and 'sudo apt-get install nano'. (Vim is also automatically installed by Crouton.)

This looks brilliant. I agree with Kluny's first comment; if someone has an email for @kazuhiroshibuya, please tell him there is currently a spelling and grammatical error on the landing page. Suggest the second sentence be changed from: "Writebox helps you to concentrate to writing and seamlessly sync your wiring text accross all your devices." To: "Writebox helps you concentrate on writing and seamlessly syncs your text writings across all your devices."

Definitely a nice app in a crowded market though. What do you offer that say something like Draftin.com doesn't?

I really appreciate the prominently placed policies about credential and data storage.

This is awesome. I've been looking for a web-based simple text editor (an iA Writer for the web) and this is the best one I've seen yet. Will definitely be using it.

This looks great. I appreciate your efforts to keep the editor minimal but effective. Congrats!<p>I would like to request a feature to sync with Evernote.

To save on Dropbox you have to give it access to your <i>entire</i> dropbox? Maybe that's a dropbox limitation, but no thanks.

I would love this if it had markdown hinting support (impossible to escape in a hacker news comment...)

Simplenote's reliability hasn't been so great lately. This looks like a nice alternative.

It says Chrome - does it not work properly in firefox?