[Q] Open a morph on startup - but only once
Daniel Vainsencher
danielv at netvision.net.il
Wed Sep 10 12:58:00 UTC 2003
Yup, more or less the kind of usage I have in mind.
Daniel
Ingo Hohmann <uysl0l402 at sneakemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Daniel
>
> Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
> > Cool. BTW, you mentioned that it is Garden based. Since Garden is meant
> > as a quick and ongoing exploration of that design space, I'm curious
> > what you did/changed...
>
> Weeell, it all started with me downloading garden, and thinking, "that's
> exactly what I need", but then I realized I was missing rich text
> editing features, on the other hand, I felt it has too many dependencies.
>
> In the end I threw out everything but the UI and created my own
> WikiMarkup parser (by brute force) and a "sort of" persistence engine
> (hold it in memory, but write out everything at the earliest possible
> moment to be able to read it in in case of a crash.
>
> What I am really aiming at, is to integrate this with my yet to write
> calendar tool, mailreader, mindmapping tool, you name it.
>
> <future>
> You see in your calendar a meeting for the current day. The meeting
> description has a link to the topic in the wiki, and to the notes from
> the last meeting. In the Wiki you find links to emails you have recieved
> on the topic, and a link to a relevant webpage.
> You find it a bit hard to understand the flow of information, so
> whereever you are, you openAsMindMap your current info snippet, it is
> turned into the main entry of a mindmap, with all relating data layed
> out around it ...
> </future>
>
> Now it is just a question of who is first, me or the future ... ;-)
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Ingo
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