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February 27, 2016 2:16 PM

I want to hide on my website a page that I can just cleanly add, edit, and delete items to a list from any browser, mobile or desktop, if we know the url. Basically like google tasks, but with no login. Is there a simple way to do this? It's basically so my partner and I can have a running errand and grocery list.

I can handle basic js, css, html. The simpler the better.

posted by history is a weapon to Computers & Internet (10 answers total)

Probably the easiest way is a shared text file and Dropbox. That way you have easy access from all your devices. A wiki could also work, although without a password they'll get hacked eventually.
posted by COD at 4:29 PM on February 27, 2016 [1 favorite]

Could you use something like Simplenote or Workflowy and share the login?
posted by still_wears_a_hat at 4:54 PM on February 27, 2016

Response by poster: I really don't want to do dropbox, simplenote, workflowy, google docs, anything log-in based. Basically a hidden one page wiki, but ideally simpler than a wiki in set up and upkeep.
posted by history is a weapon at 8:09 PM on February 27, 2016

I haven't tried this, but what if you just set up a free wordpress blog or similar and install a wiki plugin for the whole site? Then the whole website is a wiki but it doesn't matter because you and your partner can just use the one page.
posted by aniola at 11:13 PM on February 27, 2016

TodoMVC's purpose is to compare development frameworks by making ToDo lists in all of them. So you could download their code for one of their ToDo lists and just FTP it onto your site. Here's their plain javascript version demo and code.
posted by FiveSecondRule at 11:28 PM on February 27, 2016 [1 favorite]

How about a single tiddlywiki file on Dropbox?
posted by techSupp0rt at 2:40 AM on February 28, 2016

Google Drive allows you to create a document, then make a sharing link for it, then set the link permissions to allow anybody with the link to edit the document; no login required. Here's one I prepared earlier.

You could embed such a link into a non-indexed page of your own, or just use a URL shortening service like goo.gl to make an easier version.

posted by flabdablet at 5:27 AM on February 28, 2016 [1 favorite]

I bet you could use HTML5's canvas feature to do this. Have it open a "flat" text file located on the server, have it save changes to that same flat file.

https://www.everythingfrontend.com/pages/canvas-text-editor-tutorial.html
posted by getawaysticks at 6:59 AM on February 28, 2016

Tadalist did exactly this and was free, but 37Signals closed new signups for it some time ago. (which I didn't know about, since I went straight to my account rather than logging in from the homepage).

There are a couple lookalike projects on Github -- tadalist looks like the same thing but probably isn't(it's in QML and C++, while as far as I can recall 37Signals has always been a Rails shop). At the same time, node/mongo on the server and modern browsers supporting HTML5 should make this a lot easier to develop than what 37S had available in 2006, so hopefully there's something straightforward to grab and unpack now.
posted by ardgedee at 3:35 PM on February 28, 2016

PiratePad, or some other Etherpad clone would do the trick.
posted by signalnine at 5:31 PM on February 28, 2016