Thinking out loud 
It's fun to think out loud . . . . and to see someone else do it as well.
| another idea: i like having Today's outline in the same area on my screen at all times so it's a no brainer when i want to capture a thought. still though, it takes up room. would be nice if i could easily pull up the window with a hotkey and have it go away when i'm not typing in it. By dwatts@gmail.com (Donovan Watts). [Donovan's thoughtStream] |
That sounds like a widget . . . although widgets are much too slow on my G4 laptop. But this gave me an idea. I held down the option key, selected Community>Open Your OPML Weblog>Open Today's Outline. This brings up the menu for Community with Open Today's Outline selected. In the bottom left corner I selected Set Command Key . . . and typed 0 (that's a zero). Now when I want to see Today's Outline I type Command-0 and my Today's Outline opens.
Of course OPML needs to be in front for this to work.
Out of real-time chat
Thanks Donovan!
| i'm helping peter with the thoughtStream theme via blog entries. fun! so, peter, i haven't figured out how to turn an opml document into an html document yet. you'd think that was a natural thing but apparantely not. so, instead of test.opml, copy the index.html file that i include in my thoughtStream theme and call it test.html. edit the body text and then try navigating to http://hosting.opml.org/petercook/test.html again. Perhaps not the best solution but it works for my site. i'd love to have my opml files turned into html files as well. |
I'm sure that works. But . .
| can anybody explain how to do this so peter and i can get on with outlining? By dwatts@gmail.com (Donovan Watts). [Donovan's thoughtStream] |
Please oh please?
The thing is I'm less interested in getting content up on this site by whatever means than I am in getting my opml files rendered as html. We've all bought into the idea of writing in outliners and the concept of opml. Now we want want to share the information in those files via html.
One could do a kludge with the Print Outline Tool. I also see Donovan pointing to an opml renderer for WordPress. That would be fine. In fact, it may solve my current needs more elegantly. But I think it requires that the plug-in be installed on the server. Must look into this some more.
Timestamps
I like timestamps. If I look at Donovan or Dave's feed in NewsRiver I see timestamps on the permalinks. If I look at my feed I do not see timestamps. I see the date with the title of the post appended. Actually I see a mix of each in Donovan's feed.
What determines when a permanlink gets a timestamp? I know that if I hit return and leave a top level node with no text I'll get a little # with the timestamp at that point in my blog. In fact I've been doing that on purpose just to timestamp when I make a post. But I really want just the # . . . and I'd rather not have those big blue arrows.
Wait. Just had a thought and need to do a test.
Here's test 1
test 1!! I predict blue arrow, no timestamp.
Here's test 2. Test 2!! I predict timestamp, no blue arrow. 
Got it!
If I type everything on the top node and do not indent I get a timestamp at the end of the post and I do not get the blue arrow. Nor do I get bolded text. OK. At some point we'll dig into the renderer and change this behaviour. I want to indent (this is an outliner!). I want bold. I want timestamp. I do not want blue arrow. I'd really like my node 2 level text to be indented.
I want I want I want. Oh dear! I'll be patient ;-]
Wee bug?
I've seen this a number of times. I'm writing away in the "today's outline" on 2nd and maybe 3rd level nodes. Now I want to navigate back up to the top level. But there's no way to get there. I arrow key up the 2nd level nodes and then left arrow to where the top level node should be but not only can I not see the top level node but the left arrow won't get me there.
If I hit New Entry the original top level node I'm working in suddenly appears. Good. But there is no new entry. Which is ok. I'm just trying to describe what I'm seeing.
Step by step
Donovan offers help.
| peter makes me think that perhaps i need to add a bit more docs to my thoughtStream theme so that others can see how i've added tabs and such. it's a little hard to figure out but once you see how it works, it ain't so hard. peter, for everything other than your blog posts, use this URL instead: http://hosting.opml.org/petercook/ By dwatts@gmail.com (Donovan Watts). [Donovan's thoughtStream] |
I have a guess at how I might edit the template but trying it out is more than I can take on at the moment. Maybe you need more docs. Or maybe I need to read more! ;-]
A higher priority for me is to solve the upstreaming mystery. OK, thank you for the hosting tip. Here's what I did.
| Created a new outline |
| named it test and saved it to |
| ~:OPML:www:test.opml |
| The Event Log shows that the file has been upstreamed. |
| If I navigate to here I get a 404 |
| http://hosting.opml.org/petercook/test.html |
| If I navigate to here I see the text of the opml in my browser |
| http://hosting.opml.org/petercook/test.opml |
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