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Monday, September 02, 2002

Al Macintyre, Meet Rick Klau

Rick's solution, based on Marc Barrot's activeRenderer, won't answer all of Al's needs, but it looks like a great start and an excellent improvement in Radio navigation. It would take very little to add all your Categories to the OPML file and have them show up in the menu.

Al, I think you're going to find lots of useful tips on Rick's site, and I suspect you'll be adding him to your excellent Radio Doc Sources page.

Now, if I can just get over the browser hurdle so I can use some of this outline stuff...

Radio Wishlist - Help me resize the edit box, manage WIP, and navigate categories.. From Al Macintyre:

[...]Help me Navigate through my Categories.

• Top Command Menu include Categories.  Or perhaps make this a menu selection in the Cloud Links Status area down right side.
  • When I click on it, would take me to something structured like Stories.  A chart of all my Categories, like the Categories Page.
• Calendar addition of a phrase to tell us which Category we navigating through.
  • Use Calendar to navigate through posts to a particular Category post on a particular day, or that of the Home Page.
  • When I learn how to have Navigator Links to my Categories, on right side below the Calendar, I would like an interconnection between Calendar and Categories.
    • For example, suppose I am looking at Calendar for posts made to Home or a Category for Aug 20th.  I might want some icon to appear beside some other Categories to show that THEY also had some posts on THAT DAY.
    • Or, suppose I am looking at Calendar for the month.  I might like some indication associated with individual days to show that there were posts those days for categories other than the home.
    • Perhaps an expanded chart available that shows week horizontally and categories vertically and in the spread sheet intersections are links showing that for that day and that category there was one or more posts.  Click on the link to get to them.

[A cool visualization of where the author's attention flows over time.] [ Source: a klog apart]

And here's the final shot of Rick's work. Read all three posts at tins::: for the full story, and mine the site for all manner of Outliner tricks, as well.

Screenshot of the activeRoll with Radio NavLinks.

Here's a screen shot of what the desktop website looks like now that I've got the Radio menuing added as an activeRoll. (It's too small to see in this snapshot; click the image to see it full size.)

Thanks go to Marc Barrot for making this so freakin' easy.

[ Source:  tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog]

Radio Macintyre

Al Macintyre's Radio Doc Sources.. A great collection of links to Radio documentation, tips, tools, experts. I keep finding new, juicy things and ripe, proven resources. High editorial value. Thanks, Al. [a klog apart]

I like the way Al makes the identity of authors stand out. It helps you get a feeling for who knows what. [ Source:  Seb's Open Research]

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