Ask HN: An instant personalized info dump for the web.

So, Hacker News,

I was sitting with a couple of friends last week at their office and we were going over a bunch of notes and potential solutions for their website. At the end of the session I wanted to make a quick note of all the tabs I had open, just dump the relevant google searches and URLs with notes on what they'd be good for.

But this wasn't my computer. I had my iPhone but I wasn't about to retype all the information that was already on my screen, on my little phone, just to get into Evernote. I could have logged into Evernote or Backpack from there and copied it in, but I didn't want to go through the hassle; I eventually went through the similar hassle of logging them out of GMail, logging myself in, sending us all a message, then logging myself out. That was clearly less than optimal; in addition to the time and many clicks and loadtimes (and 'no, don't remember my password' boxes) I had to wonder how many cookies I was strewing all over their machine.

What would have been nice is a box that I could navigate to on the web and enter text into, which would accept any input I pasted in. It wouldn't let me see it afterwards, of course, because it wouldn't ask for auth first; I'd have to log in later and see all my items. I would just need some unique (google-invisible, I guess) URL.

I've got my own server, so I could host an install; I could also of course simply reserve for crux.myawesomeapp.net and have someone else do it. Does this thing exist? If not, what do others do for this kind of thing?

  • So input requires knowing unique URL -- what about if the retrieval did too instead of it being behind a login?

    If interested, see: "What's a private pastebin and how do I get one?"

    http://pastebin.com/pastebin.php?help=1

  • What about Jottit? http://jottit.com

    I'm absolutely in love with it, using it as a simple personal wiki.

    After you create one the first time you can make it private/password-protected if you wish. Just dump info in, hit submit, done.

  • How about an input box at the secret URL that sends an email. Someone at work uses that trick for a quick, anonymous documentation feedback option on each doc page footer.