Installation & Usage

Installation

Visit the URL Notoy PWA at GitHub Pages and you can install the app if you have a mobile device or a computer with Chrome or Edge.

Firefox does not allow to install the app and cannot share the note with other programs or the clipboard. Therefore the Install- and Share-buttons are missing:
Screenshot of the website in Firefox

On mobile devices you have to click the Install Notoy to Home Screen-badge at the bottom of the site. See: YouTube video of the app on Android

Here you can see the Install-button marked in the upper right corner of a Chrome browser. After clicking, the app is installed on your computer.You do only need connection to the internet if you want to get the name of your location from the website BigData.
Screenshot of the installation of the desktop app using Chrome
The same Install-button on Edge.
Screenshot of the installation of the desktop app using Edge
Below are two screenshots of the installed app on a computer, the first is using Chrome, the second Edge.
Screenshot of the installed app in Chrome

Screenshot of the installed app in Edge

Usage

See the YouTube video on how to share a website to Notoy and save the note: YouTube video of the app on Android

Notoy can save the note in one of three formats: as markdown to be used with programs like Obsidian, Zettlr, Joplin, … as an Org-Mode file to use with Emacs or as a simple, plain text file.

Privacy Policy

Notoy (the progressive web app) does not send any data at all to any other host as long as the reverse geolocation is disabled in the options - which is the default.

If you enable the option to look the GPS coordinates up at BigData, a request is send to BigData to get the name of the city this position is nearest to. BigData adheres to the the EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).

The privacy policy of BigData can be seen at BigData Privacy Policy

Usage with Your Own Server

You need to have npm installed, included with NodeJS: NodeJS Downloads

If you want to host Notoy on your own HTTPS server, checkout the Git repository or unzip the downloaded zip-file. In the Notoy-PWA directory, run npm install and npm install purescript and then npm run bundle. Now the Notoy progressive web app is contained in the http directory - serve this directory as root / using your HTTPS server. You need HTTPS to be able to install the app.