I've been quiet for a bit (moving house, painting walls) but I also made a big decision about Jottit.
When Aaron Swartz and I built Jottit in 2007, it was a very specific thing: the simplest way to make a web page. You'd type something, hit save, and you had a page. That was it.
When I started rebuilding it last year, I kept adding things. Blogging features, RSS feeds, dark mode, image uploads. All good things on their own. But at some point I looked at what I was building and realized it wasn't Jottit anymore. It had drifted into something else, trying to be a wiki and a blog and a publishing platform all at once.
So I split it in two.
jottit.org is Jottit. The original idea, rebuilt. Minimalist wiki-style editing. You get a site, you edit your pages, that's it. As close to what Aaron and I made together as I can get it.
tinypost.blog is the blogging tool. Markdown, RSS, all the things I'd been building. Still minimalist. But now it has its own name and its own identity instead of stretching Jottit into something it was never meant to be.
It felt like the right call. Jottit should stay Jottit.
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