Using static websites for tiny archives

Lots of folks mentioning Markdown in the comments. +1 to that. Plain text FTW. I think a lot about my own data hoarding / archiving, and plain text is such a key part of that. Very future-proof.

Ever since WordPerfect I've preferred more deterministic, lightly-formatted documents with some way to see formatting characters directly. Markdown is brilliant, basically a DSL (domain-specific language) for HTML.

The key to plain text is tooling! A couple Markdown tools I haven't seen mentioned here yet (even though they've come up on HN before) are:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/markdown-view... - pretty-render Markdown right in the browser

https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/ - standalone web-friendly Markdown formatter with many features

I use GitHub to host my markdown files. A bit more information is in this article I wrote about it. I actually have 4 or 5 similar articles with various thoughts on this. I'm trying to find a way to make it simpler, maybe even for non-technical users, but I'm not there yet.

https://joeldare.com/using-neat-css-on-github-pages

Hey, I made a small JS that allows you to host a markdown file directly (no pre-conversion or plugin needed). It is rendered in the browser as HTML.

It can definitely be used in such a local website, giving the convenience of just writing plain markdown.

=> https://www.tducret.com/pure-markdown/

(source code) https://github.com/tducret/pure-markdown

Looks more like you just made an HTML page that invokes "marked. Min. Js" from the npm cdn. Neat demo.

Same here. I have been doing more and more of Plain Text. I wrote about my thoughts on it for my archives at https://brajeshwar.com/2022/plain-text/

Google/Search tends to send quite a lot of people looking for how to take notes with Plain Text, and they seem to have benefited from my simple write-up.

This is nice. I have used https://ndossougbe.github.io/strapdown/ to quickly throw out MarkDown files for people to see as rendered HTMLs. I love the cleanliness of your script. Thanks.