I don't really think I mean "link up," more something like I want to figure out how to publish in a "News Product" fashion the list of links and notes I collect each day. I guess it's the "LinkBlog" tab I see in people's blogs, but haven't figured out how to implement. Still lagging in mastering Drummer. (Still haven't tackled the header picture..." It's something I'm liking about Feedland: I feel I already know how to use it...#

Solved an E/D problem yesterday, by deleting the names of uncloseable tabs from the prefs.json file. Shouldn't be necessary but it worked.#

I don't think it'll be as easy with Drummer.#

That was a little alarming: I clicked the little arrow at the bottom of an Old School Drummers Reading List item and suddenly I'd tweeted it. I was just clicking: usually a safe way to experiment... #

(Of course you can always do this using aliases anyway)#

Why not do both?#

Some outline nodes have the little "page" icon at the left, which results from clicking the "plus" button, and some have the little triangle icon, which results from hitting the Return key. Both are type:outline. What (hidden?) attribute tells the node which icon to use?#

In the absence of a working "Links" tab, I will once again irresponsibly hazard the Mass Dump Experiment:#

Just rewrote yesterday's post to get the quote marks right: don't like looking illiterate.#

NTS: Catch up from Dec. 8th to today. #

I like collecting articles for a personal magazine, and do it in a few ways:#

Add things to Instapaper#

Add things to Drummer with the bookmarklet#

Star things in FeedWrangler and they go into a feed that I collect in NetNewsWire#

Star things in NetNewsWire and they go into a list called Starred. This isn't exportable as a feed, but it can be "shared" to Mail.app, where it creates a list of all the items. This can then be pasted into Drummer for rearranging.#

My new favorite place to have things end up is in Drummer, because I can organize them. Headings, categories, catalogs, projects, workflows. Tiago Forte's Projects, Areas, Resources, Archives. #

The missing piece is this: the list I can paste in from NetNewsWire contains the top posts weeded from all the other sources, but it comes in the form of unclickable HTML addresses, line by line. What I'd love to get some help with is a script to turn each line into a Drummer clickable link, with the URL inserted into the URL attribute of the node. I can do it manually, but it's begging to be automated. Sadly, I don't know how to write such a script -- i fact, I haven't even got it clear in my head where such a script would live and how it would be invoked. A lot of ignorance going on. #

A new issue with Drummer, which has me worried. I noticed my "Scratchpad" tab was missing, so I reopened it from the file menu. It appeared, but in an odd placement off on the right, making a second row for itself, an then it magically renamed itself to "Notes," and yep, suddenly I had two Notes tabs, but no Scratchpad. I can replicate this just by quitting Safari and going through the same steps. The "Empty cache" command from the "Develop" menu, followed by a restart didn't solve the problem either.#

For the forseeable it appears this will be a blog on the topic of learning Drummer as a sometimes heralded "poet", in the land of the friendly Plumbers.#

(Slowly, slowly... )#

Forming a strategy for making entries on the Drummer River Reading List: assemble the posts to make sure the one you want is at the top, don't make it too long, and then add posts as you like below, but they won't get prominence.#

There's some frequency of updating, or period during which all new postings are put under the first of the day (daily?)#

Trial and error is not that good a look now, is it?#

Testing "collapse" attribute#

Well, "collapse" worked, except it wouldn't uncollapse for the reader...#

Since the Awesome Drummers discussion area hasn't really kicked off yet (I mean to jump in, but feel a need to assemble a sensible contribution in order to justify it), and the Support GitHub is a little slow-moving (or I haven't stumbled on the more active part lately), it's almost like this River could become a kind of discussion thread. Hmm. Probably another bastardization...#

I'm liking DayNotes's idea of an archive document, since I'm paying a lot of attention to the SAVED times in the upper right of my documents, and noticing them getting longer and longer.#

Decided to just post my Notes tab and see what happens:#