Tag: OWL

  • 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…

  • Questions for 2014 : #1 Mind Traffic Control

    I’m not going to be making predictions for 2014. Or promises that I may or may not keep. Or even resolutions. At least, not public ones : who knows what crazy trajectories my life will take this year? But I do have a couple of questions. These are the things occupying my mind at the…

  • Outliners, WTF?

    Alert readers of my recent post on writing in wiki who followed the link to the old SDI Philosophy post may have noticed that I said : Outliners are surprisingly bad for managing todo-lists. So what’s with OWL? Well, er … yes … the truth is, I am now using OWL very heavily. Pretty much…

  • OWL Bug Fixed

    Hopefully that OWL bug I mentioned a few weeks ago is now fixed in the repository. It was really just a a bit of configuration that failed on new installs. But I wanted to test that my fix was really working. Hope it is now. Looks like it is for me.

  • OWL Broken

    Doh! Actually OWL is very broken. Will be posting fix shortly. Will keep you informed.

  • OWL Fix

    There’s a big fix for OWL today. There were some mysterious times when pages that I thought I was changing were getting reverted. I thought originally that this was a glitch from me btsync-ing between my laptop and tablet. Or maybe my attempts at doing background synchronization between the browser localStorage and the server were…

  • OWL Server

    OWL now has a simple Python server that saves OPML files to your local machine. More here.

  • Introducing OWL

    I love outlining. I love wiki. What do you get when you create a mutant cross-breed of the two? A fucking power tool, that’s what! It’s just a rough draft, at the moment, a rough mashup of Concord and ideas from SdiDesk. But I think you can see it’s compelling …