Questions for 2014 : #2 Project ThoughtStorms

Second in a series of questions occupying my mind at the beginning of 2014. Which may (or may not) inform what I’ll be working on.
2) What About Project ThoughtStorms?
Unlike the first question in the series, this one is relatively light.
It’s obvious that OWL is the new SdiDesk. And where my private personal organizer / wiki-notebook etc. work should now be focussed. It’s equally obvious that it’s not, in itself, a publication medium. Smallest Federated Wiki is still looking good for that. SFW also has some great features : federation being one. The embedded media types being another. It’s actively improving. And looks like it’s become the “official” wiki in the node.js library. ThoughtStorms isn’t moving off SFW in the foreseeable future.
So Project ThoughtStorms is still, largely, about tools that support SFW. At the same time, this dichotomy between one tool for writing and one tool for presenting is a little bit … disconcerting. It’s natural in the outlining world, of course, a separation between outliner as authoring tool and blog / slide-show / book as rendering. But in the wiki world, where writing / editing / reading are all blurred together in a kind of closed loop, it feels wrong.
Nevertheless, there’s little real question there. In 2014 OWL is my writing tool. SFW is my public thinking space. The open question is about what bridges to build between the worlds.
Should OWL export complete SFW pages? (Easyish, I think). Should it import them? (To be consistent with my promise not to abandon SdiDesk users?) Should I try to get it to speak the federation protocol of SFW? Where should I be capturing quick notes and draft thoughts that aren’t (yet) ready for publication?
No great soul-searching here. But a bit of quizzical head-scratching required.
(Next question coming soon.)


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