Subject: Re: [TS] Another app with possibly useful ideas...
From: Ben Darnell (ben@thoughtstream.org)
Date: Wed Aug 09 2000 - 01:50:47 EDT
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 01:34:09PM -0700, wtanksley@bigfoot.com wrote:
> - a pretty outline view (I'm impressed with the way it works in
> LifeBalance); this isn't critical, but it does make building "normal"
> schedules a LOT easier
A pretty outline view is on my list (and has been since the beginning);
it's just a daunting task on a machine like the Palm. I think someone
once said they wanted to make an outline widget in a shared library;
this is probably the best way to go.
> - a list-view which can filter out everything except leaf-nodes, where a
> leaf-node is an idea which has no outgoing links to 'uncompleted' items
This wouldn't be too hard to hard-code in, but I'd like to see a more
general solution (i.e. advanced searching/filtering)
> - some basic concepts for tasks, such as 'completion' (either a checkbox or
> a %complete).
The checkbox concept is already there in the current version (although
last time I checked it was broken). I want to modularize things more in
the future, so maybe someone could write a 'task' module to do this sort of
thing. (although it would be difficult to partition the modules such
that the leaf-filter described above would work, so maybe this would be
better off in the core)
While we're on the subject, here's a couple other sources for
interesting ideas:
* Nestor - http://www.irpeacs.fr/~zeiliger/nestor.htm
Saw this on ohs-dev. I haven't had a chance to try the software yet,
but from the look of the web page, it's the closest to an actual
implementation of the Memex that the world has ever seen.
* WebDAV - http://www.webdav.org
This extension of HTTP looks like an ideal protocol for communication
between ThoughtStream clients and servers.
-Ben
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