xanthus

just finished the iliad for the first time & can say decisively that the funniest moment in all 24 books is when a horse who has previously never spoken speaks just long enough to prophesy Achilles' death & Achilles, very understandably, is like "shut the fuck up. you're a horse"

I should be writing a conference talk for Thursday and working on my thesis, but instead I am working on a replacement for the bad pensieve which I wrote three years ago.

To remind myself

(Original list)

The good

• I like the templating features of bucvac.
• I like /v/coffee.
• Random long and short fortunes.
• Archiving things worked perfectly.
• Tags worked well.
• Geogebra embedding was useful, I wish I had a better use for it.
• The task manager (buctask) worked well and I used it a lot.
• Pinning a document to the front page. (I like the restriction to a single thing.)
• The idea of a recent documents page.

The bad

• No way of 'linking' related documents together in a linear way.
• No way of hyperlinking between documents easily.
• No way of storing related documents/files together (e.g. images with source code).
• Running bucvac was really slow.
• No way of linking to external URLs easily so I could find them again.
• JSON databases are not scalable.

The ugly

• Search!
• The document interface (the iframe holding PDF) was clunky.
• The document storage backend was kind of hacky.
• Version control is hard when storing PDFs.
• The implementation of the recent docs page was really hacky.

Another list

• Writing Xournal++ plugins in Lua
• A similar system written in Mathematica
• Flask
• XKCD 1024, XKCD 1743
• SE api

Thus, a list of features for the new thing.

• Tags
• Long/short fortunes
• Recent documents
• Search (?)
• Xournal++ integration
• Heirachical structure with top-level indexes that can store related links (external links, and "see also" links) etc --- store files in the filesystem (so editable) with metadata in hidden files and then run a script to generate HTML and push online
• Embed images
• Embed PDFs
• Version control integration
• Task manager
• Pinning documents

Things not to be included

• LaTeX integration (too much hassle & too annoying)
• Geogebra embedding (not very useful)