Cowyo (portable browser based markdown editor)

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Cowyo (portable browser based markdown editor)

#1 Post by Midas »

This is one nifty idea manifested in 18MB single executable that to the best of my knowledge is portable -- it only creates a 'Data' folder for content in the program folder -- but I was unsure whether to classify it a CLI or not, so I'm posting to "Discussion".

The Markdown flavor cowyo supports is pretty basic (e.g., no tables) and I am still unsure on how to make use of its wiki features but none of that makes it any less remarkable, IMHO.

A feature-rich wiki webserver for minimalists. cowyo is a self-contained wiki server that makes jotting notes easy and fast. The most important feature here is simplicity. Other features include versioning, page locking, self-destructing messages, encryption, and listifying. You can download cowyo as a single executable or install it with Go. Try it out at https://cowyo.com.
To view it, just go to http://localhost:8050 (the server prints out the local IP for your info if you want to do LAN networking).

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Furthermore, a companion CLI utility named cowyodel can be used to exchange encrypted info between computers relying on cowyo.
There is now a command-line tool, cowyodel to interact with cowyo and transfer information between computers with only a code phrase: schollz/cowyodel.
cowyodel allows simple and secure sharing of text/data between computers. cowyodel temporarily transfers your data (with optional client-side encryption) to a cowyo server where it resides until the other computer downloads it using the provided secret code phrase.

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Download cowyo latest Windows release (v2.12.0, dated 2018-04-22, 64-bit only) from https://github.com/schollz/cowyo/releases. Cowyodel downloads (v1.2.3, dated 2017-08-18, 64-bit only) are at https://github.com/schollz/cowyodel/releases.

FYI, cowyo's dev is also behind the forked online editor at https://notepad.js.org/.

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Re: Cowyo (portable browser based markdown editor)

#2 Post by webfork »

Great addition with a lot of features I've seen requested many times. The ability to set it to run on a web server to collaborate, along with the ability to add passwords to a given entry is a great idea.

Maybe the most unique addition is the self-destruct feature, which I must say I've used a few times in Signal. Less for privacy and more for clearing out old info. I'd like to see a an optional timer on the confirmation window, as I can see some notes living past a certain age as a problem rather than just killing notes after closing. But that's a small concern.

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Re: Cowyo (portable browser based markdown editor)

#3 Post by Midas »

webfork wrote:Maybe the most unique addition is the self-destruct feature, which I must say I've used a few times in Signal.

Ever used Fugacious (https://fugacio.us/)? It's built around this idea...

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