Subject: RE: [TS] Another app with possibly useful ideas...
wtanksley@bigfoot.com
Date: Wed Aug 09 2000 - 13:29:18 EDT
From: Ben Darnell [mailto:ben@thoughtstream.org]
>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.
That makes sense. With that in mind, imagine my happiness when I saw this
listed on Palmgear.
http://progect.sourceforge.net/
It looks _good_.
>> - 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)
Oh, absolutely.
>> - 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)
Perhaps. Let me work on that for a while -- I've been talking with a guy
who's documenting a new design pattern called 'relevancy'. Essentially, a
relevancy contains not only a link between related items, but an interface
which helps determine under what conditions that link is valid.
He's using it to implement a configuration management tool, so you can (for
example) tell what security holes your network has at any given date (based
on CERT releases and such).
>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.
Hmm. I'll check it.
>* WebDAV - http://www.webdav.org
> This extension of HTTP looks like an ideal protocol for communication
> between ThoughtStream clients and servers.
Really. That's cool.
However, there's at least one patent on it, which might be incompatible with
the GPL (its owner allows anyone to use, but megaprofits companies have to
pay for a license). IMO the patent is valid (I used to program for Geos, so
I know exactly what the patent covers).
>-Ben
-Billy
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