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Re: Show HN: A ridiculously simple personal wiki

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Post by martinpllu »

CraneWorm wrote: post #2

The only thing I found confusing is that # button allways jumps to the "All Content" edit. I'd find it more intuitive if it was "Current Page" edit. I like your simplistic approach. It has this "clean" feeling to it. Also, a fun toy-use for local storage.

Thanks! The intention is that you are always editing the current page - each page is just a textarea really. The # button shows the json content of the entire wiki, which you can edit as well. It's absolutely a toy like you say! But quite fun.

Re: Show HN: A ridiculously simple personal wiki

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Post by martinpllu »

martinpllu wrote: post #3
CraneWorm wrote: post #2

The only thing I found confusing is that # button allways jumps to the "All Content" edit. I'd find it more intuitive if it was "Current Page" edit. I like your simplistic approach. It has this "clean" feeling to it. Also, a fun toy-use for local storage.

Thanks! The intention is that you are always editing the current page - each page is just a textarea really. The # button shows the json content of the entire wiki, which you can edit as well. It's absolutely a toy like you say! But quite fun.

I changed the welcome message to make it clearer that you can just edit the page without going in to an 'edit mode' like most wikis. Thanks!

Re: Show HN: A ridiculously simple personal wiki

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Post by CraneWorm »

martinpllu wrote: post #3
CraneWorm wrote: post #2

The only thing I found confusing is that # button allways jumps to the "All Content" edit. I'd find it more intuitive if it was "Current Page" edit. I like your simplistic approach. It has this "clean" feeling to it. Also, a fun toy-use for local storage.

Thanks! The intention is that you are always editing the current page - each page is just a textarea really. The # button shows the json content of the entire wiki, which you can edit as well. It's absolutely a toy like you say! But quite fun.

I had no problem with editing pages. It's just that a separate "edit mode" for a wiki page is what most users (well, at least me ;> ) expect. That way it's harder to edit "by accident", and you can use some markdown for styling.

But if you added all that it wouldn't be so simple or different from normal wikis, would it ;).

Re: Show HN: A ridiculously simple personal wiki

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Post by martinpllu »

kenrick95 wrote: post #6

Nice concept. But isn't it better to move the JS & CSS of the HTML page out to a separate file for browser caching purposes?

Thanks - I could split them out, yes. Given that it's just a toy/POC I preferred to keep them all in the same file for now.
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