This has been honestly the best no-barriers blogging experience for me. No publishing, no committing. Just open an editor and create or edit files. They sync via Dropbox. Made a typo in a published article? Just edit the file. Handles HN front page without any issues (it’s a static site deployed to a cdn). Author has been providing amazing support.
Also very convenient for casual writing/editing from any device where an app can sync via Dropbox. Can fix a typo on an iPhone via something like 1Writer while on the go.
Looks nice. A few notes: The 'Draft' and 'Files' folders should be inside the blot folder. An optional blot.exe in the folder could have help, check on rules (like underscore), open the website's editor for templates, upload/sync local files, etc...
i have been considering similar ideas when i was working on a blog frontend for my object storage platform. i can edit text files with any editor, upload them to the platform, and the system will convert them to an article.
one of the things i was considering was to make it possible to embed images without any markup. the idea was to have an article represented as a folder, with images and text parts as multiple files. all files would be sorted and then assembled into one article with images and other objects.
Also very convenient for casual writing/editing from any device where an app can sync via Dropbox. Can fix a typo on an iPhone via something like 1Writer while on the go.