With the recent changes to the scratchpad system, a question I'd been wanting to ask for quite a while popped back into my head: "Would it be possible to have two different scratchpads, one for public consumption and one for private use?". I know I can't be the only monk who wishes to be able to have a place to post things publicly and a separate 'sheet' to place things that are meant to be private. Currently, one could use their homenode as their 'public scratchpad', and then their scratchpad for their private use, but homenodes tend to contain a bunch of junk that doesn't really fit in with the scratchpad end of things.

I had feared asking this earlier because of the old implementation; surely this would have been more difficult and/or tedious to implement before now. Now that scratchpads are given their own node, it seems that permitting two scratchpads would be much easier to implement. Giving a separate node for the public/private scratchpads would most likely be extremely easy to do, though perhaps a combination of both on the same node would be better.

If the 'two scratchpads, one node' path were to be taken, it'd really only take an addition of another column to the nodetype table for scratchpads (priv_scratchpad or some such), and some (hopefully) minor changes to the code used to display the scratchpad nodetype. Anyone with access to the code is welcome to correct me on my 'this should be easy' attitude if it would not be as trivial as I think.

Is anyone else with me? Or am I alone with my desire for an additional scratchpad?

Sidenote: Super Search currently returns results to scratchpads that are private (demerphq, moen, 914, tos and zengargoyle may think their pads are private... but I know they all have 'foo' somewhere in the text!). Just pointing out an annoyance when searching; anyone who can do enough super searches to piece together what someone has on their private scratchpad deserves that reward :)