The minimalist note-keeper automatically saves your notes in your browser, so you never have to worry about losing your important ideas.
I wrote the code for this a very long time ago, and I would like to completely rewrite it. The notes are stored in your browser in sessionStorage, so clearing your browser history will clear your notes. Don't use this tool for anything important, in other words. I don't know if there's a bunch of bugs right now, but I'm uploading this project anyway to showcase my passion for building things! :-)
You can try it here.
I've tried a bunch of different note-keepers, and liked none of them. One of the more minimalist tools called Bear is a paid service, and simple tools like Notepad don't offer very good organising structures. So I set out to build the perfect tool for myself, allowing me to organise notes into folders, save them in my browser and make .txt backups to my computer, all while keeping the design and usability very simple. Two features that meant a lot to me was having word and character count being visible at all times, and being able to quickly search to find what I needed.
I learned that you can do a lot without a database, if you trust your data to sessionStorage. For important data I wouldn't recommend doing so, but for quickly prototyping a blog post or writing a song lyric it served my purposes. This project gave me experience with developing a full product, from concept to design and then code, and relying on my own sensibilities to determine what a good editor should feel like. I went through a lot of iterations while building ctrl, which taught me the value of trying out different things and seeing what sticks. Do I want icons? Do I want a hacker design? Do I want to make it more simple? Do I want it to be customisable or barebones? I didn't know at first, but that's the beauty. You don't need to get it right the first time.