Getting reoriented with the OPML Editor
Let's see how this works. I've been spewing over on my OPML blog for awhile today, and going to try pasting some excerpts here.
As I play more with the OPML Editor, I wonder if I might not be able to mash it up with my WordPress installation for more spontaneous editing of daily asides. The wordpress.root tool isn't quite working for me, but I have a few ideas for alternatives or fixes.
It's been awhile since I seriously an outliner for blogging, if I ever really did. I can see how it biases toward quick blogging and spew. And that's a good thing.
I do wish that the OPML Editor had some modernized font handling on OS X, though, so my Georgia font looked anti-aliased in the outliner. But alas, I don't know the first thing about getting that hacked into this tool.
Next, looking for the glossary table, so I can author my own things like... ";->" Oh, yeah, there it is: user.html.glossary
Also, I've started keeping the OPML Editor open instead of Tinderbox. And, while I don't get the richer visualization tools that Tinderbox offers, I do get a ton of nigh frictionless network connectivity via upstreaming and outline publishing. So, I lose maps but I gain sharing.
On the down side, there's a ton of tinkerable code under the hood that I keep having to herd myself away from to get anything done on what I'm supposed to be accomplishing. But, that's just a tinkerer's occupation hazard.
Let's see, what else? I'm wishing for my del.icio.us bookmarks as an OPML outline now, so I have a palette from which to draw in composing little asides here. I wonder if it'd be nasty to pipe some del.icio.us bookmarks into a Glossary? I tried playing with some XSLT found by way of Danny Ayers, with some tweaks of my own, but I think it's producing OPML that gives the editor some indigestion. (Danny's original XSLT seems to work, though.)