I want an outliner that outputs the MetaWeblogAPI
I want MarsLiner! I think in outlines so all I want for Christmas is an outliner like MORE or Radio that outputs the MetaWeblog API (including the Movable Type MetaWeblog API extensions) so I can post to my blog text with simple markup (links, bold, italics, paragraphs and break, other tags would be nice but I don't need them!) and simple media (pictures, and audio and video for podcasts). That's it, that's all. Brent, please change your mind because I think you could sell a ton of these things. If not maybe the open source outliner based on Frontier that Dave is spearheading or maybe Omni Outliner 3 with a suitable export to Meta Weblog API script (doesn't seem like it since OO 2 which I love doesn't even do links!) will give me what I want. Otherwise, some day, I am going to have to dust off my dusty programming mitts and do it myself!
From inessential.com: Weblog: MarsEdit report.:
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But MarsLiner was to be a huge improvement, it was supposed to be the outliner of my dreams.
But then I discovered something important: most people don't care about outliners. And the people who do care about outliners, many of them would want the embedded media features that I didn't care about. So I realized that the market would be small, just a subset of the outliner market, which is small enough already - and there are already some great outliners already.
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re: I want an outliner that outputs the MetaWeblogAPI
Hmmm, maybe we can talk to Jayson at Circus Ponies, maker of the Notebook program. I am a die-hard Omni fan but I have moved all of my outlines into one big Notebook workbook. It's a relatively light, fast, brilliant outliner that works on a notebook metaphor (each outline has its own page), complete with a Table of Contents and Indices (automatigically created by the program.)
re: I want an outliner that outputs the MetaWeblogAPI
Hi Roland,
Even were I to change my mind (not likely) and do MarsLiner, it wouldn't be a weblog editor: it wouldn't send outlines to weblogs. The plan was just to make an old-fashioned, desktop-oriented outliner.
Maybe somebody else will write an outliner that posts to weblogs.
(I used to use Frontier's and Radio UserLand's outliner to post to weblogs. So I know it already works at least for Manila. In fact, I worked on some of that code.)
re: I want an outliner that outputs the MetaWeblogAPI
thanks, Brent
I used to use Radio's outliner to post to Manila blogs, but back then (as is the case today out as shipped by UserLand) it didn't do MetaWeblogAPI. I know Andrew Grumet hacked it 'in a very cool stylee' to do so for MT, so I am hoping that the open source outliner that Dave Winer is spearheading will have a productized version of Andrew's cool code.
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