This is actually not on handwritten.blog, but on the site of the person where I got the original idea from! Maybe I can incorporate something like this on handwritten.blog too (e.g. a way for people to send in comments via email).
I can assure you it was written by my own hand (but appreciate it might sound like marketing - perhaps I can change it a bit so it sounds more natural :)
Fantastic idea! I think the hardest part for people to adopt this will be overcoming atrophied handwriting skills and no autocorrect.
One thing that doesn't seem clear to me from reading without signing up is how do you actually upload content? Do you have to have paper and pen and then take a picture of it, or do you provide some kind of excalidraw-like canvas for writing? I notice there isn't any paper background or line rules, which I think would also be nice for those who fancy a bit of structure when reading/writing.
I was very disappointed, when that happened, that the paper aspect of it was purely at authoring time; that it was converted into text. This one gets it right, preserving the handwriting aspect.
this seems to be great for like a single page exhibition or something, but reading long form content from something like this, personally I feel this to be not so intuitive
I like the concept too. People are losing the ability to read handwritten letters and notes. I'm just curious, how does this all work? Can I simply take a photo of a page?
As a writer, a lot of times I am writing over 5,000 words in a single article. I can type at around 170 wpm but my wrist starts hurting the moment I write more than three pages in my journal. I also use a split ergonomic keyboard which helps my hands a lot. I also revise my writing heavily which is very hard to do with handwritten stuff.
For readers, it will maybe be a novelty but I don't really see why anyone will prefer reading content that is handwritten since it has a lot of accessibility problems which are solved with proper typesetting.
I could see the value if it was a collection of interesting notes or unique handwriting styles etc. But i don't think its usuable as a blogging platform imo
I love that the comments on some of the posts (like this one) are written by hand too!
https://handwritten.danieljanus.pl/2022-10-01-hyperlinks-in-...
This is actually not on handwritten.blog, but on the site of the person where I got the original idea from! Maybe I can incorporate something like this on handwritten.blog too (e.g. a way for people to send in comments via email).
Ironically, "No feeds. No algorithms. No likes." reads like copy that is, well, not handwritten.
I can assure you it was written by my own hand (but appreciate it might sound like marketing - perhaps I can change it a bit so it sounds more natural :)
Fantastic idea! I think the hardest part for people to adopt this will be overcoming atrophied handwriting skills and no autocorrect.
One thing that doesn't seem clear to me from reading without signing up is how do you actually upload content? Do you have to have paper and pen and then take a picture of it, or do you provide some kind of excalidraw-like canvas for writing? I notice there isn't any paper background or line rules, which I think would also be nice for those who fancy a bit of structure when reading/writing.
Thanks! This is good feedback.
Yes, you can upload a photo through the backend, or just email it to a publish email address.
Good idea about the line rules and paper background - this could land as "theming" in the future.
Is this moderated in some way? It is the internet. Hard to see how this doesn't fill with doodles of penises and other similar things or worse.
It's not moderated. You own your content (including doodles of penises and other similar things).
Reminds me of E. W. Dijkstra's digitized hand-written manuscripts:
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/index13xx.html
Indeed!
How about a blog that contains its entire source code inline in the blog itself? [0]
[0] - https://mjwg6zy.blog/
Such that copy pasting its contents reconstructs the blog byte for byte
This is cool - I love quines!
Reminds me of tinyprojects.dev Paper Website project from 2021
https://paperwebsite.com/
I was very disappointed, when that happened, that the paper aspect of it was purely at authoring time; that it was converted into text. This one gets it right, preserving the handwriting aspect.
Interesting, thanks for sharing.
Might be missing something but I expected a way to browse the blogs - maybe even a 'random blog' link!
I have a "discovery feed" on the backlog, but people would need to opt in for their blogs to appear there in any case.
this seems to be great for like a single page exhibition or something, but reading long form content from something like this, personally I feel this to be not so intuitive
I think I agree. I think it's more for the writer than for the reader.
Very human, well done! Thank you!
Thank you!
cool idea, but doesn't this prevent translation for foreign audiences? or even screen reader integration
There are transcripts. I'm assuming those can be translated and read by screen readers, but good reminder, let me check!
Well I hoped it was some kind of SVG with alt text for copy.
Turns out it's just a webp.
Intersting idea!
Hi Emile
I like the concept too. People are losing the ability to read handwritten letters and notes. I'm just curious, how does this all work? Can I simply take a photo of a page?
Hi cmbza - yes, you take a photo, which you can then upload through the site or email to a publish address.
Very cool, maybe add a more prominent header link to https://handwritten.blog/how-it-works. I had to read the comments here to find it
Good idea!
love the idea! I had a similar thing on my todo list :) Glad u made it.
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Similar but for typists, https://onetypedpage.com/
Interesting, thank you for sharing!
i really like this. my issue is usually i read while selecting so my eyes follow which unfortunately the website won't support
Yeah I can imagine that's tricky to do in this case. Maybe I can think of something.
This is beautiful!
Thank you!
Who is this for though?
As a writer, a lot of times I am writing over 5,000 words in a single article. I can type at around 170 wpm but my wrist starts hurting the moment I write more than three pages in my journal. I also use a split ergonomic keyboard which helps my hands a lot. I also revise my writing heavily which is very hard to do with handwritten stuff.
For readers, it will maybe be a novelty but I don't really see why anyone will prefer reading content that is handwritten since it has a lot of accessibility problems which are solved with proper typesetting.
I could see the value if it was a collection of interesting notes or unique handwriting styles etc. But i don't think its usuable as a blogging platform imo
For myself, it's really about slowing down my thinking. It's definitely not meant for _efficient_ writing :)
Blog posts don’t need to be 5000 words nor do you need to write them on one sitting (or under 30 minutes).
For wrist fatigue having better paper and pen help a lot, but part of it is just using the muscles and not having a death grip.
This being said I don’t like that this is hand writing with a device. It just isn’t the same as actual physical media.