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This is Lisa Williams' first blog outline.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Thoughts about using an outliner to write a weblog

 I wonder how writing an outline with an entire day's posts

 as opposed to indivdual posts

 would change my weblog.

 Would my weblog become more cohesive

 if I could see very easily how one post flowed into another immediately in the editing window

 rather than only after publishing?

 It seems like it would be much easier to have daily "themes"

 and of course it would be much easier to change the order of individual posts.

Saving. Interesting, I just saved this and it automatically named it 25.opml.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

I wonder where this is being saved.

Let me click View.

Hmm. That didn't do anything that I could see immediately. Perhaps I'm supposed to use it in a different context.

 Oh! I get it.

 it's called 25.opml because that's today's date.

 Nifty!

 The entire URL ends with 2005/7/25.opml

 Easy to do interesting things with chronology that way.

"Save" works differently in the "Your OPML Weblog" context than it does in the "New [Outline]" context.

 When you hit "Save" in the "Your OPML Weblog" changes are saved automatically to the web.

 When you hit File>Save when writing a new outline, you navigate to My Documents>OPML>www, save into that folder, and *then* it gets saved to the web.

 Perhaps that latter operation also works with the OPML weblog, so that there are two ways to save.

 

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