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Scribbleton - minimalist "wiki"
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Posted by Paul Korm
Aug 25, 2014 at 01:10 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.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Aug 25, 2014 at 02:57 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.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Aug 25, 2014 at 03:08 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.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 25, 2014 at 11:21 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
>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.