Comments on: As We May Think: URL Trails

By: TiddlyWiki Quiz Plugin

TiddlyWiki Quiz Plugin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:08:04 +0000

[...] are tied to the concept of URL Trails. It would make perfect sense for the final page of a trail to be a quiz. Or, for a longer trail, [...]

By: TiddlyWeb Now Reloads Code

TiddlyWeb Now Reloads Code — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:58:28 +0000

[...] the server-side of TiddlyWeb a bit, mostly to make stuff degrade gracefully as I begin to build a Trails facility into Scrumptious. In TiddlyWeb, an app-specific plugin is how you build an app on the [...]

By: List Of Tweets

List Of Tweets — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:45:07 +0000

[...] the way, List Of Tweets is another example of a URL Trail. Thanks to the simplicity of the Twitter API and the elegance of JQuery, it was possible to build a [...]

By: Add-On Collections: A Trail Framework for Firefox Goodies

Add-On Collections: A Trail Framework for Firefox Goodies — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:46:43 +0000

[...] this is interesting for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it’s an example of the URL Trail pattern; Firefox Collections is a framework allowing people to publish and share a collection of [...]

By: Scrumptious: Conversations About Websites (and other resources)

Scrumptious: Conversations About Websites (and other resources) — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:22:57 +0000

[...] as each resource in your system has a unique URL. We’ll be developing a similar framework for URL Trails in the future, and the same principle applies: use unique URLs, and people can put your stuff in [...]

By: NotACat

NotACat — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:33:09 +0000

I would like to see this as a browser add-in, tracking my clickage and allowing me to go back and prune or rearrange it at my leisure.

The thought of storing it in TiddlyWiki format makes me giggle: one assumes that a TiddlyWiki can be manipulated by an external application just as handily as by a user?

Heck, why not start a trend: store the whole of your browsing history, or your bookmarks as TiddlyWikis? It would make it easier to transmit them from one browser to another, or from one machine to another. You could even store them "in the cloud" as a kind of personal Delicious.com.

OK, I'll stop there before I embarrass myself completely: no doubt all of this has been thought of before. But it does sound fun.

By: Jeremy Ruston

Jeremy Ruston — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:21:13 +0000

Good summary. I also think of Project Cecily (http://www.osmosoft.com/cecily) as a 2D map implementation of trails. The idea is that people can create and share maps of content