publishing

there is one form for everything. you give your thing a path, paste the text, and choose who can see it. that is the whole flow.

the path decides the type

bimbooo reads the extension on your path and serves the file to match. you do not pick a type from a menu; the name is the choice.

• ending in .md renders as markdown
• ending in .html is served as your own html, exactly as written
• anything else is served as plain text, an extension or none at all

so notes is plain text, notes.md is a rendered page, and index.html is a web page.

who can see it

• public appears on your site and can be found
• unlisted opens only for someone with the link
• private is a draft. it is not served on your site at all; you read it from your desk

one step back

every entry keeps the text it had before your last edit. if you paste over something good, the editor offers to put the older copy back, with the time it was written. there is only ever one copy, and putting it back replaces what is there now, so it is an undo rather than a history.

two things clear it on purpose: making something private again, and ticking "read once, then gone". if you take something down, the words you took down go too. and if your shelf is very full, a save will go through without leaving a copy behind, because saving matters more than being able to undo it.

the raw and download links

add ?raw to any address for the plain text, and ?download to save it as a file. these are query parameters, so they never clash with a path of your own.

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