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Show HN: Evernote powered website/blogging platform

58 points by nerdburn 13y ago

We built this 2 months ago, but put a new landing page on it, added some features, and made it publicly available without requiring an invite.

bollockitis 13y ago
Clever idea. The only problem I see with this is that rare occasion when that poem you were writing for your Bronies is accidentally tagged as "Published."
- nerdburn 13y ago
  Hey, you could be accidentally famous ;)
cavemangeek 13y ago
This looks great! Evernote is one of my favorite apps and I use it daily. The Markdown support is just icing on the cake.
- geekforbrains 13y ago
  Ha ha yea, I'm a big fan of Markdown, one of the main reasons we added it. Can't beat normalized data ;) Would love to hear any other suggestions/feature ideas you have.
- okalex 13y ago
  Agreed, but the markdown formatting didn't seem to work on my first test post. Still, a really cool idea. Nice job, guys!
  - geekforbrains 13y ago
    You have to enable Markdown in your site settings. Its a checkbox near the bottom.
  - nerdburn 13y ago
    Did you set your "site" to use Markdown? You can edit that when you create / edit a site on Postach.io.
andygcook 13y ago
You should add a button to a demo on the homepage. It would be nice to see what a Postach.io blog looks without having to register.
- abdophoto 13y ago
  Agreed. A demo would be nice.
- nerdburn 13y ago
  I totally agree - we're working on that right now :) Thanks!
  - Hansi 13y ago
    Great, I recommend a live demo and screenshots too. Maybe a quick tutorial showing the process from creating a new note to publishing etc.
- wilfra 13y ago
  http://wilfra.postach.io http://wilfra.postach.io Set that up in under a minute. If they support custom domains I'm in - but don't really like using subdomains. edit: they don't seem to support images, i uploaded a screenshot of the admin area and it didn't render on my blog.
  - geekforbrains 13y ago
    Images should be working, I'll check that out. As for custom domains, we absolute support it, just getting ready to roll it out. You can see custom domains in action on my site (also run via Postach.io) http://geekforbrains.com http://geekforbrains.com Cheers
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    - wilfra 13y ago
      my bad images do work if you click the link - i didn't understand the homepage was just a preview. http://wilfra.postach.io/post/hello-world http://wilfra.postach.io/post/hello-world
anologwintermut 13y ago
Who needs a blogging platform? With Evernote's lovely security practices your data is likely public anyway.
uslic001 13y ago
Very easy to use. Great idea. Published my first blog post already.
geekforbrains 13y ago
Anybody looking for some examples, here's a couple sites: http://geekforbrains.com http://geekforbrains.com http://blog.quoterobot.com http://blog.quoterobot.com http://docs.quoterobot.com http://docs.quoterobot.com http://crunchycorner.postach.io http://crunchycorner.postach.io
ryanSrich 13y ago
Super easy to customize and use. I'll be playing around with this more tonight. Made this in a couple minutes (http://onthoughts.postach.io/post/test-post http://onthoughts.postach.io/post/test-post)
- geekforbrains 13y ago
  Awesome, glad to see you were able to hack a custom theme pretty quick too! Looks great. We'll have some in-depth theme docs coming later this week.
ritonlajoie 13y ago
I like the website, but it lacks some documentation on how it works, what are the features you provide, etc... I would like to know more without being forced to register. How do these blog post work exactly ? How to make an article ? Does it work by tagging evernot notes with a special tag ? How does image inclusion works ?
- geekforbrains 13y ago
  Hey, sorry for the lack of details. We're still working on that. Basically, Postach.io looks in a notebook you specify when creating a site, for notes that are tagged as "published". This will make a post on your public site. Any images are pushed to our CDN. If a note is tagged with "page" as well as "published" its made public as a page. When a note is deleted or the tag "published" removed, it will be removed form your public site as well as any images from our CDN. Hope that answers your questions ;)
  - ritonlajoie 13y ago
    yes, thanks!
bmac27 13y ago
I'll definitely give it a shot as I've become a fairly heavy Evernote user and the templates look great. The problem is most of what I post to Evernote is typically in the form of short notes, ideas, lists, bullet points or anything that I've typically "notepaded" in the past. In other words, nothing that would be considered "blog-worthy" out of the box. (edit: maybe Tweet-worthy?) So I would have to flesh out these thoughts into something worth reading on this platform the same way I do now with any notes I compile: in a word processor. (Note that I have no idea whether my habits fit the typical Evernote use case but I figured I'd throw it out there even if I'm my own cohort.)
- nerdburn 13y ago
  I've got the same issue actually - I've been thinking of using Postach.io as a way to collect random musings and photos of text in books I'm reading / pondering.
  - ejp 13y ago
    Evernote is perfect for using as a commonplace book [1] for exactly this purpose. The only drawback is that it's hard to view in a chronological order, which is a key part of the commonplacing idea. Seems like a blog platform on top of it could solve this right away. Now I just need to get around to reading those books I want to excerpt from... [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplacing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplacing
    - julianz 13y ago
      ?? Evernote lets you view by created date or updated date, I use both of those all the time.
brandonb927 13y ago
I love Evernote and this has gotta be the most useful and easy-to-use platform out there, if not the only one I've seen!
theguild 13y ago
This is an idea whose time has come. I've also seen Evernote used as a game distribution platform [1-2]. With how much Evernote is expanding as a platform and as a way to store and index information, maybe the next threat to Google isn't Facebook but Evernote itself. [1] http://flowandzonegames.com/break-bad-habits-addictions-card-game/ http://flowandzonegames.com/break-bad-habits-addictions-card... [2] http://flowandzonegames.com/hypnotic-visions/ http://flowandzonegames.com/hypnotic-visions/ EDIT: Was Postach.io a bookmarking app in it's past life (and a pretty good one too)?
- geekforbrains 13y ago
  As far as I know, Postach.io wasn't a bookmarking app. Not one we were running anyway.
forrestblount 13y ago
Would it be possible to allow custom post paths? I'm looking to move off of posterous and I'd like to preserve the link structure domain.com/title.
- nerdburn 13y ago
  This is a great idea - we'll add it to our roadmap :) Thanks!
- geekforbrains 13y ago
  love this idea!
raferx 13y ago
This is cool. -Rafe from Evernote.

58 points by nerdburn 13y ago

We built this 2 months ago, but put a new landing page on it, added some features, and made it publicly available without requiring an invite.

bollockitis 13y ago

Clever idea. The only problem I see with this is that rare occasion when that poem you were writing for your Bronies is accidentally tagged as "Published."

nerdburn 13y ago
Hey, you could be accidentally famous ;)

cavemangeek 13y ago

This looks great! Evernote is one of my favorite apps and I use it daily. The Markdown support is just icing on the cake.

geekforbrains 13y ago
Ha ha yea, I'm a big fan of Markdown, one of the main reasons we added it. Can't beat normalized data ;) Would love to hear any other suggestions/feature ideas you have.
okalex 13y ago
Agreed, but the markdown formatting didn't seem to work on my first test post. Still, a really cool idea. Nice job, guys!
- geekforbrains 13y ago
  You have to enable Markdown in your site settings. Its a checkbox near the bottom.
- nerdburn 13y ago
  Did you set your "site" to use Markdown? You can edit that when you create / edit a site on Postach.io.

andygcook 13y ago

You should add a button to a demo on the homepage. It would be nice to see what a Postach.io blog looks without having to register.

abdophoto 13y ago
Agreed. A demo would be nice.
nerdburn 13y ago
I totally agree - we're working on that right now :) Thanks!
- Hansi 13y ago
  Great, I recommend a live demo and screenshots too. Maybe a quick tutorial showing the process from creating a new note to publishing etc.
wilfra 13y ago
http://wilfra.postach.io http://wilfra.postach.io Set that up in under a minute. If they support custom domains I'm in - but don't really like using subdomains. edit: they don't seem to support images, i uploaded a screenshot of the admin area and it didn't render on my blog.
- geekforbrains 13y ago
  Images should be working, I'll check that out. As for custom domains, we absolute support it, just getting ready to roll it out. You can see custom domains in action on my site (also run via Postach.io) http://geekforbrains.com http://geekforbrains.com Cheers
  - deleted 13y ago
    [deleted]
  - wilfra 13y ago
    my bad images do work if you click the link - i didn't understand the homepage was just a preview. http://wilfra.postach.io/post/hello-world http://wilfra.postach.io/post/hello-world

anologwintermut 13y ago

Who needs a blogging platform? With Evernote's lovely security practices your data is likely public anyway.

uslic001 13y ago

Very easy to use. Great idea. Published my first blog post already.

geekforbrains 13y ago

Anybody looking for some examples, here's a couple sites: http://geekforbrains.com http://geekforbrains.com http://blog.quoterobot.com http://blog.quoterobot.com http://docs.quoterobot.com http://docs.quoterobot.com http://crunchycorner.postach.io http://crunchycorner.postach.io

ryanSrich 13y ago

Super easy to customize and use. I'll be playing around with this more tonight. Made this in a couple minutes (http://onthoughts.postach.io/post/test-post http://onthoughts.postach.io/post/test-post)

geekforbrains 13y ago
Awesome, glad to see you were able to hack a custom theme pretty quick too! Looks great. We'll have some in-depth theme docs coming later this week.

ritonlajoie 13y ago

I like the website, but it lacks some documentation on how it works, what are the features you provide, etc... I would like to know more without being forced to register. How do these blog post work exactly ? How to make an article ? Does it work by tagging evernot notes with a special tag ? How does image inclusion works ?

geekforbrains 13y ago
Hey, sorry for the lack of details. We're still working on that. Basically, Postach.io looks in a notebook you specify when creating a site, for notes that are tagged as "published". This will make a post on your public site. Any images are pushed to our CDN. If a note is tagged with "page" as well as "published" its made public as a page. When a note is deleted or the tag "published" removed, it will be removed form your public site as well as any images from our CDN. Hope that answers your questions ;)
- ritonlajoie 13y ago
  yes, thanks!

bmac27 13y ago

I'll definitely give it a shot as I've become a fairly heavy Evernote user and the templates look great. The problem is most of what I post to Evernote is typically in the form of short notes, ideas, lists, bullet points or anything that I've typically "notepaded" in the past. In other words, nothing that would be considered "blog-worthy" out of the box. (edit: maybe Tweet-worthy?) So I would have to flesh out these thoughts into something worth reading on this platform the same way I do now with any notes I compile: in a word processor. (Note that I have no idea whether my habits fit the typical Evernote use case but I figured I'd throw it out there even if I'm my own cohort.)

nerdburn 13y ago
I've got the same issue actually - I've been thinking of using Postach.io as a way to collect random musings and photos of text in books I'm reading / pondering.
- ejp 13y ago
  Evernote is perfect for using as a commonplace book [1] for exactly this purpose. The only drawback is that it's hard to view in a chronological order, which is a key part of the commonplacing idea. Seems like a blog platform on top of it could solve this right away. Now I just need to get around to reading those books I want to excerpt from... [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplacing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplacing
  - julianz 13y ago
    ?? Evernote lets you view by created date or updated date, I use both of those all the time.

brandonb927 13y ago

I love Evernote and this has gotta be the most useful and easy-to-use platform out there, if not the only one I've seen!

theguild 13y ago

This is an idea whose time has come. I've also seen Evernote used as a game distribution platform [1-2]. With how much Evernote is expanding as a platform and as a way to store and index information, maybe the next threat to Google isn't Facebook but Evernote itself. [1] http://flowandzonegames.com/break-bad-habits-addictions-card-game/ http://flowandzonegames.com/break-bad-habits-addictions-card... [2] http://flowandzonegames.com/hypnotic-visions/ http://flowandzonegames.com/hypnotic-visions/ EDIT: Was Postach.io a bookmarking app in it's past life (and a pretty good one too)?

geekforbrains 13y ago
As far as I know, Postach.io wasn't a bookmarking app. Not one we were running anyway.

forrestblount 13y ago

Would it be possible to allow custom post paths? I'm looking to move off of posterous and I'd like to preserve the link structure domain.com/title.

nerdburn 13y ago
This is a great idea - we'll add it to our roadmap :) Thanks!
geekforbrains 13y ago
love this idea!

raferx 13y ago

This is cool. -Rafe from Evernote.