I’ve noticed several folks on micro.blog are also using Blot, which is a blog platform centered on Dropbox. Blot is not the first blogging platform that uses Dropbox as the content store, the first that I am familiar with was Fargo. The difference is that Fargo included a UI as well as ... frankmcpherson.blog

@frankm A number of Dropbox-based blogging tools have fallen by the wayside, but the one I miss most is Fargo.

@jack Fargo was the most robust of Dave's platforms, I suspect the closest to Frontier/Manilla. If were a Nodejs programming I would try to figure out the code, I think most of it is here: github.com/scripting... Although, I think the Stream type is the format I used for my blog. I still run the publisher.js on a server to provide access to my old Fargo sites like webnotes.frankmcpherson.org.

@frankm @jack Fargo was really great, I used it like a Workflowy/Dynalist and then leveraged the publishing features to share results with co-workers for technical/specification documents. There's really not anything like it as a SAAS offering anymore.

With that said -- anything locked down to Dropbox isn't useful to me anymore which is why I haven't given Blot a try. (For family reasons we're all in on iCloud Drive so paying again for Dropbox isn't not an option for me.) Hopefully the storage layer is somewhat pluggable - maybe someone with time/energy could make it work with AWS S3?

@soypunk I'm pretty sure Blot works with git now, in case that's an option. Haven't tried it myself, though. Fargo is what sort of ruined Workflowy for me, since the way it handles keyboard shortcuts was so different. I've never recovered :) /cc @Blot

@jack Me too. I'm still using Dave's remaining outliner, Little Outliner 2. I think I first discovered Dave via his outliner videos, not this one, but one like it. A whole new word opened up for me. Why did I get Workflowy? Couldn't I just use LO2, only disadvantage being that it requires login via Twitter?