Journal, reloaded

This page details the work being done on "next generation" Journal ideas.

Source code

For the brave only at this point. I'll have RPM and DEB packages available when the code is at the "everyone should try this out and let me know what you think" stage (ie, not quite yet).

Journal2

gitweb .tar.gz snapshot

Patched version of Pinot

gitweb .tar.gz snapshot

Talks

• User:CScott gave a talk on 2008-10-15 on his journal work.
  • Slides: ODP PDF
  • Screencasts: part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 (on YouTube)
  • IRC transcript of the talk
  • Ogg and flash player of MP3 soundfiles from the talk.
  • MP4 video of the talk.

• Screenshots
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  Journal mockup

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  Working journal

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  Embedded journal in Firefox (via GtkFileChooser)

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  Journal contents exported as Atom feed

Related

• Eduardo's Epiphany tagging writeup
• Experiments with unordered paths (lots of links here)
• Wumpus paper - describes the races inherent in inotify when subdirectories are created (more on Wumpus)
  • A description of one problem
  • Chris Ball's description of the problem
  • The Love-Trowbridge solution -- always use the scan-and-watch algorithm when you see a new directory created
• fschange patches for Linux: the Wumpus solution.