Free nodelet templates make scratchpads _freer

[tye]

You can now add links to your public and/or private scratchpads via your Free Nodelet. For example, just add something like the following to your Free Nodelet (via Free Nodelet Settings after you've enabled it via Nodelet Settings):

<ul><!--todo-<li>[id://`id`]
</li>-->
</ul>
[href://?node_id=`id`;op=_freer;at=todo|Add]
[`id`] above,
[href://?node_id=`id`;op=_freer;at=ad;in=pub|Promote],
[href://?node_id=`id`;op=_freer;at=ad;in=priv|Watch],
[href://?node_id=`id`;op=_freer;at=ad;in=priv;in=pub|Both].

And add the following to the public and private areas of your scratchpad:

<hr />
Nodes of interest:
<ul>
<!--ad-<li>[id://`id`]</li>
-->
</ul>
<hr />

And you'll see links like:

Add 490843 above, Promote, Watch, Both.

in your Free Nodelet and clicking the "Promote" one will add the current node to the list on the public part of your scratchpad, clicking the "Watch" one will add it to the private part, and "Both" will add it to both lists.

See Free Nodelet gets templating features for more about using these templates and Free Nodelet freed for the original announcement of the Free Nodelet and some other ways to make use of it.

The technical change is that the op=_freer now accepts one or more in= CGI parameters that can each be "free", "pub", or "priv" to have the template expansion applied to (respectively) your Free Nodelet (the default), your public scratchpad, and/or your private scratchpad.

[demerphq]

Cool tye. Lets just hope someone steps up and writes a nice sitefaqlet about the free nodelet. /me gazes out at the clan....

[jdporter]

Very few if any nodelets have their own faqlets, currently. Free Nodelet, like the others, is documented in a section of What are Nodelets?, which I have updated.

[chanio]

Perhaps, a qualified monk could write a 'Cool Uses for Free Nodelet' that would encourage further uses of such a nice idea! And present some ready-made examples with different approaches.

[planetscape]

Several attempts have been made to exploit the new and cool things one can do with the Free Nodelet:

Free Nodelet Hack: RAT collapse all

Free Nodelet Hack: Clear all Radio buttons

Free Nodelet Hack: Check or Clear all "Delete" Message Checkboxes in Your Message Inbox

Update: Free Nodelet Hack: No more scrolling to find the "comment on this node" link

Update: 2005-11-11 Free Nodelet Hack: Set Timestamp for Newest Nodes




Update: 2006-06-18


Re: Kill [me] (Free Note Taker)

( For those who can't read pmdevtopics, there is an example in Free Note Taker )


Free Nodelet Hack: 'Newest Nodes' Menubar
Free Nodelet Hack: Hide/Display Nodelet Bar On Demand
Free Nodelet Hack: Quick /msg to current node's author
Re^2: Buddy list (freedom)




Update: 2006-11-07

• Free Nodelet Hack: Nodelets on the left




I am surprised that more Monks haven't experimented with this, however... ::hint, hint:: ;-)