new tool project

[Miles Fidelman]

Hi Folks,

Some of you might be interested in a tool I'm working on. The short
form is "smart documents that talk to each other."

Basic idea is:
- start by writing and sending an HTML email to a group of people (say
everyone involved in working a trouble ticket)
- on receipt, the copies establish a peer-to-peer connection - updates
to one copy propagate to every other copy

Synchronized copies of documents, rather than sharing one copy via
Google Docs. Sort of like Git, but for things like action items,
trouble tickets, work plans, reference documents, rather than software -
with all the code pushed into JavaScript libraries embedded into the
documents themselves. (Maybe more like Fossil's embedded wiki - pushed
into the browser).

If you're interested, take a look at:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1947703258/smart-notebooks-keeping-on-the-same-page-across-th


Support, likes, tweets, +1s, ... welcomed!

Miles Fidelman

--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra

[Miles Fidelman]

Brian Mathis wrote:
>
> If you're interested, take a look at:
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1947703258/smart-notebooks-keeping-on-the-same-page-across-th
>
> Support, likes, tweets, +1s, ... welcomed!
>
> Miles Fidelman
>

> Have you ever seen Gobby?
> http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/
>
> It allows multiple people to edit a document at the same time. It's
> peer to peer, though I think it only works over the local network.
> It's also open source.
>

Gobby looks interesting, but seems to be for real-time collaboration
only. Thanks for the pointer.

Miles

[Miles Fidelman]

Actually, to clarify:

- JavaScript doesn't really work in most (all?) email clients
- goal is to distribute HTML+JavaScript as an attachment, view/edit in
browser, with static content readable in email client
- ideally, there will be some functionality, using links and forms,
available within the mail reader, but nothing active

Miles

Robert Hajime Lanning wrote:
> Talk about a security breach waiting to happen.
>
> Last thing I was is active JavaScript in my email.

[Morgan Fletcher]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu

:-)

Morgan

[Miles Fidelman]

Now that's an oldie but a goodie :-)

Of course there's also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex