nips/37.md

NIP-37

Editable Short Notes

draft optional

This NIP describes a flow for clients that want to support editable short notes without breaking the experience of clients that don't and keeping kind:1 a safe place.

The idea is that editable notes are published as kind:31000 notes that follow all the same rules of kind:1, except for the fact that they can be replaceable anytime.

{
  "kind": 31000,
  "created_at": 1730820000,
  "content": "I like dogs",
  "tags": [
    ["d", "c2huy3f"],
    // other kind1 tags
  ]
}

Clients that want to support edits would automatically only publish kind:31000 notes, then immediately publish kind:1 notes that quote the kind:31000 note.

{
  "kind": 1,
  "created_at": 1730820000,
  "content": "naddr1...",
  "tags": [
    ["q", "31000:...:c2huy3f"]
  ]
}

Clients that support this NIP would then fetch the kind:31000 and display it normally in place of the kind:1. Other clients would display the editable event embedded inside the kind:1.