Writebox – Syncs with Dropbox. Chrome, iOS, Web (opens in new tab)

Looks cool. I corrected some of your spelling and grammar errors. Many US customers distrust sites that have poor English in their copy. Hope it helps.

ID and Password

We don't store your Dropbox and Google Drive passwords. (We cannot access this information.)

We store your OAuth token for Dropbox and Google Drive in our server.

We store a cookie in your browser.

We store your e-mail address for Dropbox and Google Drive in our server. This is for you to identify what account you use on Writebox.

File Contents

We don't store your file contents in our server, but save in your local cache.

We don't read your file contents, we just convert file encoding to show characters correctly.

We store the filepath of the thing you last opened in Writebox in our server. This is for syncing the last edit of the file across devices.

Logging

We collect analytics data through Google Analytics when you using Writebox. This is for the purpose of service improvement.

We don't track individual users.

Probably not spelled right... but funny.

We don't store your file contents in our server, but save on your local for cash.

Need to change cash to cache maybe?... or maybe not. Nice biz model. :)

Chromebooks out of the box lack any kind of straightforward text editor which will edit local files and/or files on Google Drive. (Google Drive is much more convenient to use on chromebooks than Dropbox.) Writebox looks as if it might be a candidate to fill this void, for it loads and saves files on Google Drive, even though 'distraction-free' tends to be code for 'featureless'.

Unfortunately, it's got a serious bug, fatal for my usage, which the developer promised to fix over a month ago but which has not been fixed yet. If you edit and save a web page (i.e. an .html file) on Google Drive, Chrome OS no longer recognizes the file as a web page to be viewed in the browser, but only as a text file, to be viewed as text or edited.

Eventually, this might be a good app. In the meantime, if you need a text editor for a chromebook, put it in developer mode, install Ubuntu 'cli-extras' with the Crouton script, and 'sudo apt-get install nano'. (Vim is also automatically installed by Crouton.)

This looks brilliant. I agree with Kluny's first comment; if someone has an email for @kazuhiroshibuya, please tell him there is currently a spelling and grammatical error on the landing page. Suggest the second sentence be changed from: "Writebox helps you to concentrate to writing and seamlessly sync your wiring text accross all your devices." To: "Writebox helps you concentrate on writing and seamlessly syncs your text writings across all your devices."

Definitely a nice app in a crowded market though. What do you offer that say something like Draftin.com doesn't?

I really appreciate the prominently placed policies about credential and data storage.

This is awesome. I've been looking for a web-based simple text editor (an iA Writer for the web) and this is the best one I've seen yet. Will definitely be using it.

This looks great. I appreciate your efforts to keep the editor minimal but effective. Congrats!

I would like to request a feature to sync with Evernote.

To save on Dropbox you have to give it access to your entire dropbox? Maybe that's a dropbox limitation, but no thanks.

I would love this if it had markdown hinting support (impossible to escape in a hacker news comment...)

Simplenote's reliability hasn't been so great lately. This looks like a nice alternative.

It says Chrome - does it not work properly in firefox?