Chris

https://chrisatmachine.com

Working on nostr stuff

- comet.md
- notebin.io
- notestack.com
- relayrunner.org
- relaywizard.com

NIP-C0 author

Public Key

npub1ygzj9skr9val9yqxkf67yf9jshtyhvvl0x76jp5er09nsc0p3j6qr260k2

NIP-05 Address

chris@nostrings.news

NIP-57 Address

chrisatmachine@strike.me

Profile Code

nprofile1qqszypfzctpjkwljjqrtya0zyjegt4jtkx0hn0dfq6v3hjecv8scedqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsccp9a0

Publishing to

relay.damus.io

nos.lol

relay.notestack.com

Author Public Key

npub1ygzj9skr9val9yqxkf67yf9jshtyhvvl0x76jp5er09nsc0p3j6qr260k2

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Last Notes

2025-04-27 10:23:08

You probably shouldn’t be running a public relay if you don’t have the time to moderate it.

2025-04-14 04:54:27

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Ok I think i understand now after finding these: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/data-vending-machines/tree/master/kinds
I'll adapt this nip to a job request.

2025-04-14 04:42:20

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If I understand DVMs correctly I would have to pay a relay for this data though right?

2025-04-14 04:21:33

Zap Reducer NIP: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1877/files
It's like NIP-45 Counts but allows you to reduce filtered zap amounts to based on some function like:
- sum
- avg
- min
- max
- count
relays that implement this nip will allow the client to just ask for the sum of all zaps rather than streaming all of the zaps and summing on the client.
#grownostr

2025-04-09 23:20:22

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it should already publish to all of your NIP-65 write relays, assuming it can find your 10002. I'm not sure about drafts yet.

2025-04-09 23:08:17

How do you think relays should be handled on https://notebin.io?

2025-04-09 22:20:45

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Some really cool stuff happening with NIP-C0 code snippets, might be a good way to get more developers into nostr.

2025-04-09 02:58:39

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yes, the hardest part was finding a good rich text editor to integrate well with react native but with dom components this editor should translate pretty nicely to mobile. i'll work on a mobile client once cross platform encrypted sync is implemented on the desktop.

2025-04-08 23:54:34

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fair point

2025-04-08 23:50:40

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An information junkie that buys ram so he doesn't have to close any tabs.
I still see this as an experimental project overall, one of my biggest issues has been trying to decide what to do with relays, with multiple columns you can just have the user decide what relays they want to read from per column.

2025-04-08 23:19:21

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yea but there are already mobile clients with single feeds that are doing that task well.

2025-04-08 23:09:56

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it seems like a good fit for nostr, you can mix and match all kinds of feeds

2025-04-08 23:02:36

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ok i'm just realizing now that this is based on tweetdeck/xpro which i've never seen until now. Maybe i should take notestack in this direction 🤔

2025-04-08 22:54:53

Are clients with multiple column feeds the future?

2025-04-08 08:05:22

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Never heard of freenet tbh

2025-04-08 08:04:24

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I haven’t thought about dms but I do plan to build in encrypted sync cross platform for your notes.

2025-04-08 08:01:59

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🤝 A simple desktop note taking app that allows you to write markdown in rich text and publish articles to nostr. Still in alpha tho so if you test it make sure to save your notes outside of the app until 1.0.

2025-04-08 07:58:38

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I’ll consider it out of alpha once encrypted sync is working, and when that’s done I should be able to put together a mobile client but that’s a little further out.
In the meantime let me know what features you’d like to see!

2025-04-08 07:53:25

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I’ll give it a shot for the next release.

2025-04-08 07:11:07

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yea it's a desktop note taking app you can use to publish long form content. I'm planning to add regular notes and code snippets soon. It's still in alpha so if you test it out make sure to back up the notes somewhere else until 1.0.
you can download it at https://comet.md

2025-04-08 05:36:45

You can now sort by last edited, created at and title in Comet.
Title is particularly useful if you're writing a book or course where you can number the titles.
Each notebook should have it's own sort state.
https://v.nostr.build/UYI1ZMXp3FfKlwsL.mp4

2025-04-08 04:58:06

You can now tag your code snippets on notebin.io, this will allow for enhanced lookup with MCP serviers:
https://v.nostr.build/aQ0sJT93wQh6HCZx.mp4

2025-04-08 00:28:41

I refactored the code snippet MCP code to use typescript and be simpler to understand, if you're just learning how to integrate nostr with MCP I recommend checking out the tools directory:
https://github.com/nodetec/nostr-code-snippet-mcp/tree/master/src/tools

2025-04-07 17:49:37

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It’s back.

2025-04-07 17:34:33

The domain for Tauri (the rust desktop application framework) has expired. Reminder that if you have a good domain to put it on auto-renew. Hopefully they’re able to get it back.
https://tauri.app

2025-04-07 09:19:00

NIP-C0 supported landed in rust-nostr: https://github.com/rust-nostr/nostr/pull/830
#grownostr

2025-04-07 06:29:34

If anyone is looking to:
- show x results per page (not infinite scroll feed)
- save paginated state when navigating to a post and back
- reduce number of calls that need to be made to relays
checkout how I'm doing pagination for notebin snippets:
https://notebin.io/archive
I think this is about as good as you can do when you only have the created_at timestamp to work with.

2025-04-06 20:44:29

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MCP and UDS signer code: https://github.com/nodetec/nostr-code-snippet-mcp (make sure to spin up the UDS signer first if you wanna test publishing)

2025-04-06 20:26:35

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also just realized I put and @ and not a # 🤦‍♂️

2025-04-06 20:24:57

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Here is the nip to sign via Unix Domain Sockets: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1862

2025-04-06 20:22:10

In this demo we ask Claude to post a simple python code snippet. The MCP server reaches out via unix domain socket to have the event signed so Claude nor the MCP server needs to know the private key. This will allow you to have Claude post code snippets that you like on your behalf without needed to expose your private key/nsec.
@grownostr
https://v.nostr.build/VyJH6QCH6Q5RgAV8.mp4

2025-04-06 02:28:43

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Yea I don't artifacts support this atm. Seems like doing something like this could be risky tho.
https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/9487310-what-are-artifacts-and-how-do-i-use-them

2025-04-06 02:22:06

I just realized that an MCP server is another good place to test out a remote signer via UDS on the desktop, I’ll try to get a demo out for it soon.
The basic idea is that you could have the agent post notes on your behalf without giving it or the MCP server your nsec.
Or you could give the agent/MCP server an npub and it could have it’s own identity.

2025-04-06 02:09:00

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I don’t think you can give an agent some JS code for instance and have it execute it in node. At least afaik. Maybe just write a good tool for an MCP server with all the params it might need for the complex query?

2025-04-06 02:01:40

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I recently got a Levoit core 100s, mostly for allergies and stuff. It’s pretty interesting watching the light change from blue to orange when i open a window or cook something.
I went with this one since there’s a lot of controversy around ozone and stuff with a lot of the popular air purifiers, and since i don’t understand any of that I just opted for one without plasma wave tech.
I don’t recommend any of the round ones from Levoit though.

2025-04-05 20:40:25

Does anyone know of a good search relay implementation?

2025-04-05 13:19:22

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beginning work on one for code snippets: https://github.com/nodetec/nostr-code-snippet-mcp

2025-04-05 11:26:22

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🤔

2025-04-05 11:19:52

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I don't think I understand custodial in this context.

2025-04-05 11:15:17

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you can zap code snippets on https://notebin.io

2025-04-05 11:09:52

How does Primal show reply count, zap sums, like counts and repost counts so fast?

2025-04-04 23:41:25

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MCP typescript-sdk with since it works with fiatjaf’s nostr-tools lib
typescript-sdk: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk
nostr example for kind 1337: https://github.com/nodetec/nostr-code-snippet-mcp

2025-04-04 21:59:07

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I would recommend building something simple with nostr-tools to get started then (my first project was notebin.io). Maybe checkout ndk later. You might also consider spinning up your own relay for testing or personal notes so that you can see how it all works together, for that I'd recommend relayrunner.org. And for cli and local relay purposes I'd recommend nak.
https://github.com/nbd-wtf/nostr-tools
https://github.com/nostr-dev-kit/ndk
https://relayrunner.org/
https://github.com/fiatjaf/nak
I would say the things that I have found the hardest to get right on nostr are:
- caching
- batching
- relay UI/UX
- pagination
- counting
I can go into more detail if you wanna drill down on anything in particular.

2025-04-04 21:18:45

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I can point you to some libraries, open source projects and patterns i have found helpful. What are you looking to build?

2025-04-04 17:53:55

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you could probably give it an nsec and just have it post every time it generates some code. But yea it could definitely write and post code snippets, just change the input to the snippet content and change the function to publish with a nsec from an env var or an external config file (or just hardcode it)

2025-04-04 05:54:30

Simple example for NIP-C0 code snippet Mode Context Protocol Server:
https://github.com/nodetec/nostr-code-snippet-mcp

2025-04-03 23:32:24

I wrote a simple MCP server for fetching recent code snippets, this one just gets recent ones but you can imagine how useful this could be if you're running your own relay with a curated list of composable code snippets that already work.
This would be even cooler if you were using a search relay and could have claude search for public code snippets that match what you're trying to do by filetype and function name.
This is just scratching the surface.
https://v.nostr.build/RSMqDK9pwTIm6bxu.mp4

2025-04-03 08:50:50

I pretty much only find new people on here when accounts I already follow repost content. So we should probably be abusing reposts.

2025-04-03 06:04:23

The pagination on the archive page for notebin has been improved, feedback is welcome, let me know if it doesn’t behave how you’d expect:
https://notebin.io/archive

2025-04-03 02:52:35

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Are you aware of an implementation/currently running relay that supports nip-45?
stryfry for instance has an issue out for it but it doesn’t seem like it’s priority: https://github.com/hoytech/strfry/issues/77
also this doesn’t seem to address the other issue for reducing zap events to a total amount, is there some way to do this yet?
also i’m aware of nip-45 but i’ve also seen that it has been a controversial subject in the past, apparently the original author deprecated it but i guess it was un-deprecated in a more recent PR: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/842

2025-04-03 02:21:31

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I don’t think DVMs will scale for my use case, I essentially want to show counts for comments, likes and amounts for zaps (taking each zap event for an event and reducing it to an amount) for posts.
Streaming each event in and counting on the client seems wrong but there is no way to ask a relay for counts (leaving aside zap amounts for now, which would be slightly more complex).
I don’t think paying a relay every time I want a comment count for a post is a good solution. Unless I’m misunderstanding something.

2025-04-02 12:30:10

Any good algo relay implementations yet?

2025-04-01 05:08:54

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You shouldn’t let the desktop apps that exist today sour your opinion on the platform as a whole. I haven’t tried gossip, but maybe i’ll give making a kind 1 desktop client a shot.
Also can you try comet and let me know what you think?
https://comet.md

2025-04-01 04:17:23

The desktop application is the most sovereign platform available and is mostly uncontested territory.

2025-03-31 22:10:37

NIP-5F: Remote Signing via Unix Domain Sockets
This NIP will allow desktop applications to communicate offline with a signing application running locally on the users machine.
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1862

2025-03-31 07:05:32

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how do i install this chat app btw?

2025-03-31 07:02:38

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what lists would be featured on the site/app tho? even if the lists are created by users someone would need to also curate that list.
maybe i’m just not thinking about it right.

2025-03-31 06:53:45

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seems like it would need a manual curation process which sounds like tedious work.

2025-03-31 06:50:16

I’m setting up a project for comet so can keep track of what i’m working on bugs/features etc..
https://github.com/orgs/nodetec/projects/7/views/2
if there’s something you’d like to see in comet notes add an issue to the repo and it will automatically show up in the backlog
https://github.com/orgs/nodetec/projects/7/views/1

2025-03-30 00:59:47

There must be something interesting we can do with this code snippet kind and the new MCP stuff but I have no idea how it works yet.

2025-03-29 21:49:32

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Well I wanted to name it C0DE which is all hex but i figured it would be too long, if I can I'll give you C0 😅

2025-03-29 21:40:18

NIP-C0: Code Snippets is merged
NIP: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/C0.md
Reference implementation: https://notebin.io
Repo: https://github.com/nodetec/notebin

2025-03-29 06:32:22

https://notebin.io now has an archive of snippets you can page through: https://notebin.io/archive

2025-03-26 04:13:05

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then maybe on the root site users can create a community similar to how reddit works, only you’ll spin up an entire relay and have moderation capabilities when you create the community. if the main site decides they don’t like you anymore and shuts down your subrelay you can just make sure to back up all notes to an external relay on your own domain. and users can just add that domain to their list while preserving all of their data.

2025-03-26 04:05:29

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maybe one domain could also have multiple relays and use the subdomain to advertise what kind of content a user could expect to see there.
baking.damus.io
webdev.damus.io

2025-03-26 03:58:33

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You would also ideally only read from one relay at a time and just swap them out when you want to see differently themed content.

2025-03-26 03:53:47

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i’ll work on that next, since it shares the editor with comet right now the title is chosen based on the first line with a single hashtag markdown title. I think that fits the ui for comet, but I’ll likely need a separate text input for the title on notestack in the future to avoid this confusion.

2025-03-26 03:51:22

relays should implement some sort of algorithm chosen by the relay runner rather than just spewing the most recent events or making the client come up with some sort of hacky global/main filter.
It would be cool to see different feeds from the perspective of a programmer, designer, baker, gardener etc… rather than some algo that has overfit what it thinks i want to see.
Once you get stuck with a bad algo on twitter/x for example you’re kinda stuck with it and you have to artificially interact with posts that are similar to the kind of content you want to see again even tho you’re not necessarily interested in that post.

2025-03-26 03:44:17

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Ok publishing when logged in with an nsec should work now. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

2025-03-26 03:22:26

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Well it’s hard for initial discovery, but I think the main feed from relays should be curated at the relay level. Instead of just spewing the latest events.

2025-03-26 03:11:50

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hmm, i tested it recently I’ll fix it and let you know when it’s done.

2025-03-26 03:07:15

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Yup notestack is mine as well, it’s using basically the same editor as comet. i need to tweak the publish step on notestack (to make sure the title doesn’t show twice on other sites) but it works. Also on notestack try pasting an npub into the editor and hovering it. I’m working on some rich text nostr editor components.

2025-03-26 02:52:13

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i think you can do that on jumble.social

2025-03-26 02:50:50

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Interesting, I see it on notestack when i’m connected to the damus relay filtered by latest:
https://notestack.com/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzptagg5um7h9vhumqxmjm4gh7pjpfngqjs9cu5sh6zr7y7hnt4c8hqy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hsqznr8qenyvpn89jxgdskj96d3
I can see it on habla too but I have to click on the damus relay so I’m not sure how habla is handling their global/all feeds
https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzptagg5um7h9vhumqxmjm4gh7pjpfngqjs9cu5sh6zr7y7hnt4c8hqq9xxwpnxgcrxwtyvsmq0g6ccs
I think it’s a good idea to be able to copy the naddr from a right click context menu on a published note. I’ll try to add that in the next release.
Thank you for the feedback!

2025-03-26 01:47:32

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idk what that is

2025-03-26 01:45:23

I think it’s better to just read from one relay at a time.

2025-03-25 23:39:38

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maybe we can do something like this with https://relaywizard.com

2025-03-25 14:56:45

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Thanks, I’ll take a look

2025-03-25 07:55:58

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Thanks I’ll check that out

2025-03-25 07:46:08

Or maybe some reducer api for zaps so I can ask for a zap kind and for the relay to sum up all of the amounts.

2025-03-25 07:41:12

Can we ask relays for counts yet?

2025-03-25 07:20:27

A new version of Comet is available
This update includes a fix so that Comet is more compliant with existing long form clients.
When publishing, the title (the first line that starts with a single hashtag) will be stripped from the content
Also you must choose a cover image when publishing if you want one to be present.
you can download the new version at https://comet.md

2025-03-24 19:18:34

Code snippet nip updates: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1852
- swapped out a few tags
- simplified the nip explanation

2025-03-23 11:05:02

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never used ipfs, but in this case it’s just text with some metadata, not sure why i’d need much more than what nostr provides.

2025-03-23 09:43:46

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Not sure, I guess I could just put a character limit if it becomes an issue.

2025-03-23 09:18:11

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cool stuff, maybe you can help me work on a nip so the sites can work together: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1852

2025-03-23 09:11:06

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https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1852

2025-03-23 09:09:22

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Cool, maybe we can work on a nip so they can interop.

2025-03-23 09:00:09

Code Snippet NIP proposal: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1852/files
reference implementation at https://notebin.io

2025-03-23 08:45:13

Some new update to https://notebin.io a platform for sharing code snippets
https://notebin.io/nevent1qvzqqqq98ypzqgs9ytpvx2em72gqdvn4ugjt9pwkfwce77da4yrfjx7t8ps7rr95qy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hsz8nhwden5te0wfjkccte9e3ksunfwdshgmtpvd5xjmn99e3k7mgqyzzr7zupcwn896pm5cxn82v32frsy98hfn2u2zk2wvtrrmpfh85q5n0q7hp
you can find the code here: https://github.com/nodetec/notebin
https://v.nostr.build/imvrW1biICMENqOy.mp4
#grownostr

2025-03-21 05:05:06

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they all should, you can control which relays you publish to on comet and read from on habla for instance. Comet uses relay.damus.io by default.
I’ve never used rpm as a package manager but try uninstalling first before reinstalling, maybe something like:
dnf list installed | grep comet
dnf info comet
sudo dnf remove comet
it may have version in the package as well not sure so i just used comet as the package in this case.

2025-03-21 04:11:14

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Check a nostr longform site like habla.news, highligher.com, or notestack.com.
There is a separate kind for markdown structured notes that these sites support.

2025-03-21 03:51:28

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I had a similar problem with obsidian, i kept having to refactor the folder structure and it let me do way too much nonsense imo that stopped me from just writing content/taking notes. In comet there is a tag view scoped to each notebook so you can break a notebook up by tag (without the notebook being polluted by all tags), and even further the more tags you add. You can add a tag by just putting a hashtag in the note content.

2025-03-21 03:37:21

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yea i’ll add in the plaintext view soon, but i truly hate notebook nesting notebooks/folders tbh, so i’ll likely never add that feature. If you notice that they’re are too many notebooks in the sidebar i recommend hiding them (since you rarely are probably using more than like 5 at a time) or collapsing the section. Also consider using tags to improve filtering notebooks. That way the sidebar and your notes can stay “flat”.

2025-03-21 03:30:19

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Also maybe i can see what the creator of npub.pro thinks about my approach, maybe we can get everything in sync. I’m willing to change how comet works when publishing so that it parses the first h1 markdown title and allows you to choose a different image as the cover image if we’re all agreeing that’s the standard.

2025-03-21 03:17:50

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i’ll look into adding descriptions soon for both comet and notestack.

2025-03-21 03:12:34

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Try reading the article on notestack.com, the way i handle titles and images is a little more sane in imo, it accounts for the title and cover image so that they aren’t shown on the article page.
that way everything can be contained in the content.
As an example checkout this article on both notestack and habla:
https://notestack.com/liminal@gitcitadel.com/mfayffebPrMI520ftzIlE
https://habla.news/u/liminal@gitcitadel.com/mfayffebPrMI520ftzIlE
you’ll notice that the cover image is not included in the article (because it’s not in the content) which is similar to how medium does things. It also parses out the first top level header if it matches the title tag so they aren’t duplicated.
Also if you like the editor in comet notestack uses basically the same one, I’m keeping them in sync until i can provide the editor as a resuable library/component that other longform sites can use.

2025-03-21 00:29:59

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It’s available at https://comet.md hopefully I’m supporting the platform your on, I’ll try to setup builds for windows and Intel Mac soon.

2025-03-21 00:26:01

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A desktop notetaking app, where you can publish your long form notes to nostr.

2025-03-21 00:15:33

A new version of ☄️ comet is available at https://comet.md
Updates:
- improved search highlight
- improved publish dialog
- cross platform note sync (requires you to setup your own couchdb server)