This is a rephrased repost, but the original note got no attention and I'd really like to hear opinions on this.
I have some gripes with the Personal Nodelet as is:
- It only understands very simple links: "nodename", "nodeid" and "nodename|arbitrary link name"
- Of those, it turns "979|the fearless" into the equivalent of [979|the fearless] instead of [id://979|the fearless].
- It allocates an entire line to even very short links.
- Editing is very awkward, particularly if you want to rearrange the links: you have to "copy link location", extract the node ID from the link, paste it in the textbox, select the old element for deletion, and if you had given the link a custom title you have to copypaste that separately. Then you can submit - but beware: don't forget to check "Modify Personal Nodelet". Yeuch.
I'd find it tremendously more useful if it also understood the other variants, esp "http://absolute.link.com/foo" ones. Then, I could have a link directly to my scratchpad where I keep oft posted links ready for copypaste. I could also keep external links like cb Last 35 there. This could be addressed by supporting the entire PM link dialect for the nodelet, however this leaves the other concerns unaddressed.
What I want to propose is to make the Personal Nodelet a freely editable piece of text. Anyone could put anything in there and format it to their own liking. Editing the content would be much easier. Also, it would allow putting non-links in there - I'd try if I like the copy paste templates from my scratchpad in there, avoiding having to load another page to get at them every time I need them. The "add to personal nodelet" link would work just like the "add to scratchpad" one does.
Makeshifts last the longest.
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