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by saola-app 3822 days ago
The reason I created this is that I use plain text most of the time. It was great when using my laptop. With Emacs and shell scripts I could do a lot of things. Keep track of issues, my finances and all. But it was so difficult to keep it online. When I want to access it from my mobile it was not possible. Yes there are several platforms which allow you to store files. But none which allow you to script on them. Its like bringing the shell scripting and plain files of UNIX to the web. Its up to you how you use it. You could store book marks, list issues, take notes. What I think is interesting is the scripting part especially that you can execute a script by making a POST request. This allows you app to react on statuses from other apps.
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How about storing plain text files on a cloud server with Syncthing? https://syncthing.net/ (I'm not affiliated with them.) I think it works on mobile and looks like it exposes a rest api too.

So you can have local scripts that affect the files and the changes will be synced for your other devices to see.