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creating a new note by double clicking would be nice, since the rate of notes created by mistake would be lower :) plus the image url feature doesn't work with any of my browsers (Mac OSX 10.6.5 Safari 5, Chrome 8, Firefox 4)
Thanks! Noted. For the image url, are you pressing enter after pasting your URL? Let me know if that doesn't work, and if not, we'll drill down into why it's not working for you (def want to fix it if it isn't).
Off topic as usual, but interesting from the developer and user point of view. If you are going to give me a 10 char ID, please make it all lower case and without numbers, I hate hitting shift or having to move my eyes from the keyboard to the numpad and back. So, aren't 26 lowercase chars enough? 26^10 = 141,167,095,653,376 A hundred and forty trillion options! * Hey Tim, nice app btw.
But let's talk about the ID. Sure, it's a hundred and forty trillion, but it's also less than 48 bits. Note that every visit to the site's root URL generates a new ID, and compare with The Fridge which (very reasonably) uses a 128-bit-equivalent ID: 25 alphanumerics!
I'm not buying this "hard to type" argument. First, an app would ideally just allow you to get a more-typable version if you specifically request it. Second, how often are you typing in IDs? When the URL is on paper or on another device? I'm thinking it's not often enough to truly affect usability. Third, I use a keyboard that doesn't even have a numpad and somehow I get by.
Finally, let's say we spec out that we do want at least 47 bits of IDs. The site can get there by using 10 lowercase letters or 8 of all alphanumerics. Game over. Now the lowercase option comes down to adding two characters for the sake of better typability, which is a crummy trade. Not only for Twitter reasons but because the longer the URL is, the less shareable it looks.
Doesn't work with some character sets. I just entered: これは、いくつかの日本です Then went away and came back, and all the characters had turned to question marks.
It would be nice to be able to zoom in and out to see more or less at a time. In general, this concept lands itself well for Google maps API where you model your board as a map and it handles scrolling and zooming for you. Edit: something similar to this http://www.conwaylife.com/
Doesn't work with some character sets. I just entered: これは、いくつかの日本です Then went away and came back, and all the characters had turned to question marks.