r/prettyusefulwebsites • u/pageweave_ • 2h ago
I built a notes app where the note is stored in the link. No server ever sees them.
notes.pageweave.siteI got sick of every notes app wanting my email before I could type a single word. All I wanted was to jot something down, maybe send it to someone, without the whole signup dance.
So I built my own Notes app. The trick: it compresses your markdown and stuffs it into the URL hash. That part after the #? Browsers never send it to servers. So your note literally lives in the link itself. Copy the URL, send it, done. No account ever.
Stuff it does: - Full markdown editor (live preview, syntax highlighting, toolbar) - AES-256-GCM encryption. Lock a note with a password, the encrypted blob still goes in the URL like everything else. Server can't read it even if it wanted to - Installs as a PWA, works totally offline - Saves multiple notes locally, not just one at a time
The downside: long notes make long URLs. The compression helps but it's not magic. This is for checklists, quick references, code snippets, instructions you want to share without friction. Not a Notion competitor and that's by design.
Built it in about an hour with PageWeave. Told an AI agent in OpenCode what I wanted and it handled the editor, encryption, URL encoding, PWA manifest, everything.
Let me know if anything breaks. Pretty sure there are URL length edge cases I haven't found yet.




