notes-pico 0.8

Notes Pico is a simple note-taking web application. It was originally written by Charles Leifer as a demo of how to write a simple, but slick web application using the Flask web micro-framework. The application is described in the blog post http://charlesleifer.com/blog/saturday-morning-hack-a-little-note-taking-app-with-flask/ . Notes Pico is a port of this application to Picoweb web pico-framework for MicroPython. It was ported by Paul Sokolovsky.

To install and run the application, you should install MicroPython “Unix” port as described at https://github.com/micropython/micropython . Once you have micropython executable in your PATH (recommended, but not strictly necessary), change directory to where you want to install the app (~/tmp/ should be good for a quick test) and install notes-pico package:

micropython -m upip install -p app notes-pico

app (argument of -p option) is a subdirectory into which to install the application. To run the app, execute:

MICROPYPATH=app micropython -m notes_pico

This will initialize note storage and output a URL to open in a browser:

* Running on http://127.0.0.1:8081/

Open the link and start adding notes (after typing text press “Add note” button or press Ctrl+Enter). Note that Picoweb port is intended to be simple and low-resource, so supports only plain-text notes, unlike the original Flask application.