notepad with tagcloud and multiple tag selection

Posted February 2, 2008 by osta in tagcloud notepad multipleTags

TagCloud: -multiple tag selections via click by click.

  • once selected tags are excluded in selectable tags in tagClouds. -positive tag/negative tag searching.
  • ((+)application) ((-)apple) ..etc -bookmarkable tag selections.
  • directly create a notes that tagged on already selected tags. -automatic tag suggestion from word count , when finishing a note
  • this looks same feel of tag cloud. -show various list type of tag cloud.
  • new~old, Item counts, Access Numbers, Alphabetical....etc.

NOTE: -outlines. -cross link. -checkbox. -strikethrough style view option for changed note contents. -filelink -indexing

!!no directory structure !!just tags only.

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jesse - February 3, 2008 8:38 AM

Is this something that you would like to build and try to sell on the Hog Bay Software website?

Anyway, I like the idea of a plain text "notes" app, it something that I've even started to sketch out myself a few times, before realizing that I just didn't have time. But "generic" notes apps are a pretty crowded app category, so I think to make it work you'll need to stand out in some way, and I'm not sure if just adding a tags interface is enough. For me tags are interesting, but in the end I'm not sure that that are the best central organizational metaphor for a notes based app.

In my mind wiki's are a more powerful basic metaphor to organize plain text notes with. App's like VoodooPad already have the "standard" wiki ironed out pretty well, but I think there may be room for something simpler that's plain text based instead of rich text based.

Here are some ideas that I think might be interesting...

  1. Each page is a separate plain text file.
  2. Since you have plain text you can't support "text attributes" like Voodopad does. Instead the text content in your app should be in a plain text format like markdown. When someone wants to edit a page they hit the edit button and and when someone browses the pages that markdown should be transformed into html.

That's the basic system, I think a pretty good example of this was released as "Instiki" a few years back. But that app needed to be run in a separate browser I think. This app should be build as a OS X app from the ground up, it can use a WebView to display it's content.

Longer term after the basics are working I think you can add interesting features that make it hackers can use to build their own solutions. If the app is built around the idea of a a "plain text" edit mode and a "web browser" view mode then you have lots of flexibility that you can add inbetween as the text is transformed from to be viewed. For example you could have a page that automatically lists all your todos' to do that you could allow the user to specify some sort of query in the "plain text" mode who's results would be displayed in the browsing mode.

Hope all that makes some sense. I think the idea of a two mode notebook could be pretty powerful. It's not a new idea, most web based apps already work this way, but I think they work that way because they have to so that development is easy, not because they really want to. I think if you designed an app with the two modes as an explicit feature then you would have something fairly original on your hands.

Jesse

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osta - February 3, 2008 3:39 PM

thanks for replying.

is there any notepad supports 'tagCloud' and 'multiple tags searching' ?

i couldn't found yet.

that's the core concpet.

wiki is too complicated to personal use.

i' want to hogbay make 'tag cloud with multiple tag selectible notepad' for note maniacs.

it can be a GTD solutions with tag scripts.

and minimal wiki solution with contents link.

THAT'S NOT WORK IN TWO MODES I MEAN.

it happens some misunderstand thing i think. because of my poor english and this wield markup..

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jesse - February 4, 2008 10:50 AM

A pure tags based notebook might be pretty popular, I don't really know. But for me personally I think it would be to limiting. Anyway I don't have time to start another project, but I would certainly love to see an play with a tags only based notebook, I don't think that it's a bad idea, just doesn't excited me personally at that much.

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