I always forget what link I need to follow from my home node, to edit the data on my scratchpad. Is it under "change your user settings" or under "edit your user information"? The kernel of this problem (if it isn't exaggerated to call it that) is that editing your scratchpad actually doesn't belong under either. It isn't a user setting, like changing the CSS to use for the site, is. But it isn't personal information either, because the scratchpad doesn't appear on your personal nodelet: it is a separate page. But most of all: while your personal nodelet doesn't change that often — it often remains unchanged for weeks, or longer; the scratchpad may change several times a day. So, in my view, it's on a whole different level.

So, my point is simply this: why isn't editing your scratchpad a separate page as well, with its own link on your own homenode? It would then look like this:

Change your user settings.
Edit your user information.
Edit your scratchpad.

which removes, at least, my confusion.

The page to "edit your scratchpad" need only to contain the textarea to edit it, the checkbox to make it public, plus, in addition, preferably a preview option — just like the preview mode when editing any other node — as well. Because editing your scratchpad, and checking out what the result looks like, is harder than it could be: it requires two browser windows, one for the edit and one for the view, which both need to be submitted/reloaded for each change. Having both in one page would make editing your scratchpad easier, perhaps lowering the threashold to make more use of it.

In reply to Edit your scratchpad... should be easier to reach by bart

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