How I came up with the idea for PostOwl
by Tom AtkinsI like writing:
- blog posts
- journal / diary
- letters to friends and family
These three types of writing are spread over different apps. I wanted them all in one place. PostOwl is the solution.
It needed to be Open Source so that people will trust it.
It needed to be for the long term. All your data is in a SQLite database so it's easy to back up and since SQLite is a long term archival format I can be confident that people will be able to read it in the future even if the app around it stops working. I can leave a single file with all my writing after I die - a bit like how we used to find a perons's diaries, letters and books in the attic.
PostOwl needed to be easy to edit. No confusing admin panel or build steps like for a static site generator. Using SvelteKit, ProseMirror and SQLite we've made PostOwl instantly editable in-place on the page - see the video on the home page for what it's like.
