A radically simple web publishing tool. Write markdown, get a beautiful page with a shareable URL.

The original Jottit was co-created by Simon Carstensen and Aaron Swartz in 2007. This is a spiritual successor.

Live at jottit.org

1. Click "Create a page"
2. Write markdown in the split-pane editor
3. Hit publish, get a shareable URL

No account required. Claim your page later with just an email to create an account.

• Flask + Jinja2 (server-side rendered)
• Vanilla JS (admin only, no JS on published pages)
• Vanilla CSS
• PostgreSQL

# Create the dev database
psql -c "CREATE DATABASE jottit_dev;"

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Run the dev server
flask run --debug

pytest

This project was made possible by the generous support of Paul Graham. Thank you, PG.

Jottit was built using Claude Code.

AGPL