Oddbean new post about login | logout The ability to paste/share a noteid like you would share a url. So something like nostr://noteid123456789 where “nostr” has a default handler registered with the OS.
btw- I didn’t mean to add this to nostr clients (they already know how to handle note ids). I’m magic wanding the ability to easily share notes via non-nostr clients.
Address you using Amethyst? It defaults to this for sharing: https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9tgfut2fteguv34pk06eruay7tk4z3lyzgk270xhxz87sragqk0cpzemhxue69uhkzarvv9ejumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgq3qe2wl43nfgraz603hd0xx0f89lveyjxz7xawctyst0p65fmh65j4sxpqqqqqqzl7warv
That doesn’t let me generically share a note via text message, twitter, facebook, email, etc by just pasting in a note id. What I’m suggesting is work be done to get “nostr://“ generally recognized as a protocol in a uri such that the OS then seeks a handler for it. Just like it does for http, wss, and ftp. The handler might be amethyst, or damus, primal. When I send someone a url to a website, I have no idea what web client they’ll use to view it.
Nos has this and it links to an njump.me page that then has links to various apps for viewing the content in app. Here’s the njump link for the original post to this thread. https://njump.me/note1vu20t2lwxx3xxsev6xwgca2tyncjeksnyfwrkxskxhs3qsczr3hq0uu0hd Copy link in the menu will give it to you. I’m curious if this what you mean or if you are asking for something else? https://image.nostr.build/e00b45612f1ccdaf7bf61ecdb4e0b751acd4554a693335f26bcd1cdb2bef4d88.jpg
Thanks Linda. Yes, several (most?) clients have a web landing page for this. So if you “share” a note from that client, it copies a website link pointing to their landing page with that note displayed. So that somewhat achieves it. But that’s different than using a generic nostr uri in say, an email, or a PDF, and when the user taps/clicks the note link in the email or PDF, the app they’re using works with the OS to launch the preferred nostr client to view the note.
This is helpful. Are you clicking on Nostr links often outside of the Nostr apps? For example are you seeing a lot of links on X and frustrated by that experience? I am trying to understand the problem behind this request.
None of that. Magic wanding. The example you shared works well, but not all clients offer a share functionality with their own landing page. Aside from that, I had been thinking that it would be great if notes always displayed in the user’s preferred/default client - without any prompting. I used website URLs as an example, but phone numbers and addresses are others. When viewing content with a url, phone number, or address, many apps present them as links. When the user taps/clicks, the app usually launches another app to view it. The author didn’t specify what app to use. The content client or OS makes the decision. BUT after more consideration, it seems that wouldn’t be best for all situations because some notes (long notes, shopping, recipes, etc.) should probably be viewed on sites tailored to that note kind. So I guess doing it like Primal, Nos, and Amethyst is probably best.
