ib design pipeline

ib design pipeline

ib - make a list of all the places that would need to change for a more automated fields/serialization solution - including re-writing old entries when adding / removing fields - then, add a second timestamp (minor revision)

when logged in, display private categories
at end of category list, display "uncategorized" link
here's an idea about how list UI could work: mouseover near list item bullet, bullet is highlighted and horizontal box pops up, first line excerpt from text, below, buttons: delete, move to top of doc, top of section, bottom of section, mark as done, then a button for each _Section_ (move to that section - maybe left side prepends and right side appends?)
just switch to Markdown - that or make _bold_ and *italics* work
switch to flat tagging structure, including, yes, private tags
email pair support - config apache to include cookie info in logfile?

i want a two-pane AJAX interface, like Yojimbo, with tags on the left and a list of entries on the right
- should be able to tag tags, so on the left you have the tag you're looking at, a list of tags that are tagged with it, and (maybe) a list of things it's tagged with
- left pane: browse mode (see above), list: by # entries, by mod date...

smarttext->html happens in javascript _only_. page loads with hidden textarea(s) with entry text, then adds entry html to the DOM tree
- incidentally, add in-page editing to this, and you're close to a situation where every entry is a self-contained file (see TiwyWiki) - add Groove and you now have an offline-capable wiki (assuming the relative links will find their way back to the docs stored in Groove)
debug expand/collapse on IE
expand/collapse +/- bullet images
"views": on a per-entry basis, be able to choose a "view" - module used for editing/viewing, e.g. to-do list view with clicky UI shit and shit
microcontent-type display
rate entries: how? slider? stars? hmmm
checkbox: "this is a category"
- what happens to child entries/categories if parent is no longer a category?
  - they just get moved up the hierarchy (ie, they get their former parent's categories)
- what if a category entry is private?
  - check vip cookie, if yes, display in italics wherever categories are listed, if no don't display
- what needs to happen for this to occur?
  - add checkbox / entry field
  - change get_categories()
  - display stuff as "category (parent 1, parent 2, ...)"

passwordless editing
every entry has a "last major modified" date and a "last modified" date
then, implement some sort of version control system: view old versions of an entry, rollback to a version.
THEN in-place editing (which auto-saves, with no cancel button?)

mobile - cookieless login, links to next actions by project (based on first word? up to first dash?) link to single-line new entry box

mindmap-style editing via ajax or whatever
- nodes are just titles until you open them up
  - can default to nodes open or closed
- smart about stuff: eg, pasting a hyperlink on a node makes the node a link
- category nodes are special: just containers for links to other nodes (?????)
this may or may not simplify things: but analysis and synthesis as two separate activities? (ie analysis: trad. outliner/mindmap mode, quick keystrokes to add children/peers; synthesis: re-drawing as a non-hierarchical concept map, marking stuff as categories)
- hey wait a minute, yeah: tags and then playlists on top of those (for like "LA Music") or whatever

ability to check off items in lists (see basecamp to-do lists)
script to auto-move Notes with leading "-"s to ibnextactions on phone/Outlook sync?

also see: notes about the PIM i want to build

ok: start with succinct problem definition? maybe even use cases?

want to add structure to entries (outliner/mindmapper)
want more rational tagging structure (Music/LA, Other/LA, Music/Events -> Music, Events, LA - but with easy access to intersections: Music LA, Music LA Events)
want faster, 100% keyboard-based editing etc

why am i resistant to storing work notes in ib?

stuff i've done!

~~fuck it, let's just make titles the first line~~
~~make the entry title the html page title~~
~~striphtml~~
~~private check sets edit screen bkgrnd gray~~
~~smart lists v1~~
before in-place editing: write changes to _two_ files, ibcurrent.db and ibfull.db. ibcurrent is what gets displayed; old versions of revised entries are cleaned from ibcurrent.db. ibfull has every version of everything.
~~keyboard shortcut to expand/collapse all~~

last modified: 15:21:29 02-Aug-2002
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