Re: [Fenfire-dev] JoDi article process

[Benja Fallenstein]

Tuomas Lukka wrote:
> I'm getting more and more the opinion that a layout on a 2D canvas is
> a very personal thing. Two people editing a text together will do much better
> than when they edit a canvas full of notes together.
>
> It's like my desk - if someone else uses it, I don't know where things are after
> that.
...
> Anyone can categorize, by placing on *their* canvases.
> Anyone can import, but please place it in their own space.
>
> In the space I have, I want to remember what I've read and what not yet.

Tuomas and I discussed this on VoIP and agreed that it's also very 
useful if we do the categorization as a group, i.e. if I find something 
related to linking, I can put it into the "Linking" category shared by 
the group; we could each have our own categorizations, but then I'd 
always have to look at what the others categorized and copy that into my 
own categories, not fun.

So for now, we agreed on a simple model where some canvases are owned by 
a person and some canvases are shared. The program doesn't know about 
this; when you create a canvas, you simply put in your name, or else 
"Common canvas" or some such, and you don't edit other's canvases.

(If anybody doesn't like this or has a better idea, please speak up, 
naturally!)

I would like to additionally propose (we haven't discussed this yet) 
that people are allowed to create link anchors on others' canvases (a 
text node that just reads "<--" or something like that). The canvas's 
owner could then move those link anchors around. What do you think, does 
that make sense?

Cheers,
- Benja