For several months I have had a /msg I sent myself at the top of the CB nodelet that has one link directly to my scratchpad in edit mode and another in view mode. For you, this would look like this.

/msg Aristotle <a href="index.pl?displaytype=edit&node_id=114691">edit
+</a> <a href="index.pl?node_id=108949&user=Aristotle">view</a>
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It's not a complete answer to all your problems, but it might be useful until such times as a better solutions presents itself.