I'm not sure where to start or how long to ramble...

Take for instance Turstep's user page with all that good juicy information. It must be a pain to edit in a little browser text area. (yes there's cut-n-paste to vim and back..) but every little change requires uploading the whole thing back to the server. There are 26 screens (my browser) of info there. To break it up and organize it turnstep would have to do something like I tried, create a place to put nodes, only there's nowhere to do this (that I know about) that doesn't open it up to public comment (you can't comment on a scratch pad or user page). That may be good or bad.

On the same form is your scratch pad, every time you update it you're uploading your bio information again.

The more you keep the more you task the server. The more you edit the more you task the server.

So in the perfect world of my head a monk has some nodes to organize with.

Say there are some special monk nodes (get created if they don't exist, etc.) like a Favorites monknode. It's a Personal Nodelet replacement ;) and it's editable contents looks like this: 

<li>[id://145647|zengargoyle]
<li>[id://6041|turnstep]

[download]

The Favorites Nodelet just adds links to the end of the node. A monk can now edit this, change the titles, change the order, and have a really usefull nodelet without resorting to clicking checkboxes and adding links one at a time.

This Favorites node is also nice to bring up when answering a question, cut-n-paste the link, change title.

IMHO the bio, scratchpad and personalnodeletlinks each as a seperately editable node would be an improvement. That was the start of the monk nodetypes idea.

Ok, the dark place was the fortune quote when I posted the thread, It seemed to fit at the time.

Ramble off.

I have nothing but respect for turnstep's effort, I think it's time to browse more user nodes.

Having the bio and scratchpad on the same page will give me a tinge of guilt and a touch of fear every time I change either moreso when they get bigger.

If nothing else, here is an easy feature request: A textbox and stubmit button in the personal nodelet. If there is text in the box and it's stubmitted use the text as the title of the link.

I really wish the personal nodelet worked the way I described above. Monks could edit and organize the links without form bashing.

Nothing has made me loose/gain/loose/gain.... experience points than this thread. Think it broke about even.

In reply to Re: (crazyinsomniac) Re: dark place by zengargoyle
in thread You have moved into a dark place. by zengargoyle

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