Scribbleton - minimalist "wiki"
Started by Paul Korm
on 8/25/2014
Paul Korm
8/25/2014 1:10 pm
Scribbleton. A donation-ware minimalist "wiki"-like app available on Linux, Windows, OS X. Exports to text or HTML, though IMO neither export is very useful. Text export makes a plain-text file (i.e., no links) for each "page". HTML export produces mal-formed links between "pages", that are useful only with a particular folder structure.
https://scribbleton.com
https://scribbleton.com
MadaboutDana
8/25/2014 2:57 pm
To be fair, it is only an alpha version. And it looks very nice! I've noticed:
a) poor export, as you suggest (looks like somebody forgot to specify the 'scribbleton' folder as part of the export process).
b) clever avoidance of overwriting (exported pages have numbers added to their names automatically if they already exist in the target folder)
c) no search function (no tagging either, rendering the wiki effectively useless as an information repository)
d) nice navigation bar (keeps everything simple but pleasantly easy to use - presumably in anticipation of a mobile app in the near future)
Definitely one to keep an eye on, however.
a) poor export, as you suggest (looks like somebody forgot to specify the 'scribbleton' folder as part of the export process).
b) clever avoidance of overwriting (exported pages have numbers added to their names automatically if they already exist in the target folder)
c) no search function (no tagging either, rendering the wiki effectively useless as an information repository)
d) nice navigation bar (keeps everything simple but pleasantly easy to use - presumably in anticipation of a mobile app in the near future)
Definitely one to keep an eye on, however.
MadaboutDana
8/25/2014 3:08 pm
Oh, and another thing it doesn't do (yet) is use Apple's automatic elegantification function ('substitution'), which automatically converts straight apostrophes/quotation marks to curly ones. That's essential in a writing app, in my view. I believe it's built into the OS, so should be accessible to any app.
Alexander Deliyannis
8/25/2014 11:21 pm
MadaboutDana wrote:
I must say that I've had major issues with such 'elegantification' substitutions, which eventually end up as completely irrelevant characters when displayed in some other programmes--including Internet Explorer. So no thanks... I also assume that this kind of OS-intrinsic functions are difficult to provide in a multi-platform app.
Oh, and another thing it doesn't do (yet) is use Apple's automatic
elegantification function ('substitution'), which automatically converts
straight apostrophes/quotation marks to curly ones. That's essential in
a writing app, in my view. I believe it's built into the OS, so should
be accessible to any app.
I must say that I've had major issues with such 'elegantification' substitutions, which eventually end up as completely irrelevant characters when displayed in some other programmes--including Internet Explorer. So no thanks... I also assume that this kind of OS-intrinsic functions are difficult to provide in a multi-platform app.
