*protoTyping

Putting it together one Note at a time

A Tinderbox Toolshed

The Front Door

*protoTyping

There's No Place Like Home

The Fridgedoor

Quick Notes

About Me

Random Lists

A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words

*protoPhoto

Recent Notes

A System for Success

A Document with a View

Tinderbox - In Color

Still Getting Things Done

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The Workbench

Ideas

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Canceling a move 9/14/03 ::permalink::

The best way to cancel the movement of a note is to hit the escape key before you finish your move. Its the same trick I use in the Finder to cancel the movement of a file or directory.

Different ways of sorting the index 9/14/03 ::permalink::

The index page of *protoTyping is created by an agent that collects forty of the most recent entries collected from a container note. The content of the agent is then sorted by Modified (reverse). This allows me bring old items back to the forefront when I revise or modify the note.

I've considered doing this on my personal weblog but it creates timeline discontinuities when I correct something minor like spelling or grammar in an old note. So, I'll stick with sorting on "Created (reverse)" for The Fridgedoor.

Simplify, simplify! 5/4/03 ::permalink::

During the course of working with the another simple website, I realized that my trainitem template could be simplified. There really isn't a need to do a Level check and it should be possible for notes to go many levels deep.

I am looking for a way to view a complete Story within Tinderbox. A Story is made of many. It's difficult to edit the story by looking only at individual notes in Explorer View.

But it looks like the Nakakoji View will allow me to to see the entire Story with all the notes flowing together.

I select the parent of the notes (or individual notes separately) and choose View: Nakakoji View. Here I pick the appropriate radio button or go with the default which is to view the selected note and it's children and choose a template.

If I choose one of the text export templates included with Tinderbox, I can view just a text version of my story. I can also edit this template to modify the view by clicking on the Edit button. I just want title and text.

Great, now I have the whole Story in one window! The only problem is that the text is so small I can barely read it. Must make appointment to see eye doctor -- eyes failing.

Color link by note color 3/31/03 ::permalink::

Here's an idea -- make permalinks in the same color as the color of the category note. That would be cool!

A prototype change 3/31/03 ::permalink::

Went through and changed all the prototype names. Removed the asterisk in preparation for my planned trainItem.html template consolidation project.

protoNote becomes protoNote

Next I will convert the individual category img labels to a generalized label that inserts the appropriate img based on ^Get(Prototype). All preceded by an appropriate conditional that I am still pondering over.

Perhaps this one:

^if(^exists(^ childLinks))

some code to format a list of links to the child notes

^ endif

if this note has any children,

the end of the if construction^

But what will that do to the sidebar? Have to think about what distinguishes a multilevel project.

Done!

Sorting of the index is strange. It seems to be grouping, then sorting by date, when what I want is to sort only by publication date. Look at the corresponding collection agents.

Solution: (?) Sort by PublicationDate (reverse) AND id (reverse). I don't completely understand this solution but I'll take it!

* Now I sort by Modified(reverse) and id(reverse). That way I can bring an old topic back to the top as I solve or revisit issues. **

Note however, the new sort on Modified only happens after the document is reopened. I would rather have it dynamic.

Done!

Is there an easy way to get all the html discussion to easily show on the published web page? Special commenting lines? I seem to recall a setting about no markup. Need to explore later.

The TB and xml logo aren't showing up on the Read more page. Check it out.

Need to modify template to include new categories. Is there a more general way to do this? ie with category classes (*proto2Level etc)

Otherwise new categories won't show up until the editing.

Cutting and pasting like sections works ok

Done!

Edit template with -if then- commands to set up new window condition for links within and outside of *protoTyping.

Solution:

New attribute; Target

Export template; uses a Get(Target) in link

Done!

I need to go into the trainItem.html template and add the new categories to the "if - then" conditionals.

Done!