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MonoURL – stores text in the URL

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I was going through Simon Willison's blog and came across a post that featured this GitHub repo, and I was intrigued with the simple yet brilliant idea. I used textarea.my for a bit and then decided to build a better version for personal use.

And I did create one and hosted it on a subdomain text.deepakness.com where you can try it, and you can also see the GitHub repo since it's open-source. Basically, it's a simple index.html file that contains HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and that makes everything possible.

Some of the features I created in my version are:

  1. Has light and dark mode theme options that can be switched between by using the keyboard shortcut ctrl/cmd + shift + L
  2. Spellcheck can also be toggled off or on by pressing ctrl/cmd + shift + K
  3. The note can be downloaded by pressing ctrl/cmd + S or by clicking on the download icon at the top
  4. The share URL can be copied by clicking on the copy icon at the top
  5. Saves the note locally, so just visiting the main URL loads the text that you last wrote
  6. Also shows the number of words and characters at the left-bottom side

To give you a better example, here is the note containing the entire 750+ lines of index.html file saved in the URL itself. Try opening it, the URL is too long, but it works.

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