I call this TinderBox document “My Blogging Factory” and the main interface uses a colorful TinderBox Map view.Here’s a screenshot of the map view:DESIGN DETAILS:For the purpose of simplicity I’ll refer to my ideas and articles from this point on as notes, which is the TinderBox term.There are four basic steps I’ve defined for creating blog articles:Collection of IdeasResearch and Writing of the ArticlesPre-Post holdPosting and Saving In TinderBox, I created four Adornments, one for each of the above steps.Idea Receiving (Collection of ideas)Manufacturing (Research and Writing of the Articles)Pre-Staging (Pre-Post hold)Shipped/Posted (Posting and Saving)I also created a new user attribute called “PostStatus” which contains a status number related to the status/Adornment of each note/post.PostStatus=”1″ (Idea Receiving)PostStatus=”2″ (Manufacturing)PostStatus=”3″ (Pre-Staging)PostStatus=”4″ (Shipped/Posted)Each of these Adornments has “OnAdd Actions” that automatically perform the follow functions when a note is placed in the adornment:Sets the appropriate “PostStatus” Code depending upon which Adornment the note is placed in, see above.Sets the color of the note to a unique color depending upon which Adornment the note is placed in.Sets the “KeyAttributes” to Created Date [Created] plus “PostStatus” for later sorting and querying.Sets the Created Date [Created] attribute to “Today” (current date, time).I’m using the Created date attribute as the date that the current PostStatus was set.USAGE OVERVIEW: I collect and create my ideas for posts in the “Idea Receiving” Adornment…. There are usually only a few of articles in this adornment at any time.When I deem the article completed and ready for posting I drag it to the “Pre-Staging” Adornment, which again changes it’s color, status and date…. This is the archive area for my posts.This is a very simple system which uses only a small part of TinderBoxes feature set. I’ve already thought of some additional capabilities I want to add:An alert system when a note (article) has been in “Pre-Staging” for more then 24 hours.A sorted outline view of each status and number of notes.I’m sure there may be better ways to accomplish what I’m doing, but for now it seems to work for me.
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