My experience: I was merely editing around in my scratchpad in one window while reading some nodes and adding the interesting ones to (you guessed it:) my scratchpad in another window... When I finally hit submit on the edit window, of course all the node-links I had collected suddenly were no more... Oh well, back to square one.
A possible remedy: I would like to suggest sticking a timestamp in the scratchpad and simply appending the edited content to the current content (and displaying a warning to this effect) if the timestamp in the submitted post information doesn't match the timestamp saved on the server.
After all, I'd rather manually remove some stuff that have to regather a bunch of links by re-reviewing the nodes from a whole lot of search-results.
Discussion: Opinions? Experiences? Other ideas?
Well, I personally think that this will be a long time in coming. I lean towards a different angle: AFAIK had you been adding to the nodelet this wouldnt have happened. Thus IMO a better solution is to add some controls to Personal Nodelet Settings that allow you to export your links to the scratchpad (private or public) from there. That way you get the safety that the controlled management of the Personal Nodelet has, with the flexibility of the scratchpad.
How does that sound as an alternate?
demerphq
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- add stuff to scratchpad by editing and saving once in a while
- view a bunch of nodes and add some of them to the scratchpad via the Personal Nodelet controls
- before closing the scratchpad editor click on save just to be sure not to lose the last edits
- call the scratchpad viewer and see it only as last saved in the edit window and with none of the added links
With your Idea, just add the Personal Nodelet Settings page as an additional step.
Hmmm. I'm just thinking: I like the way I can see the links in the personal nodelet, but don't want to clutter it with a bunch of newly colleted links... How about this:
- scrap the "Add to pub / priv pad" from the personal nodelet
- change the "Hide Links In Nodelet Viewer (Only use it to capture links)" to "Hide Links In Nodelet Viewer by default" in the Settings
- add checkboxes for "unhide" "add to priv scratchpad" "add to pub scratchpad" in the Settings
- and add a warning to the Scratchpad Editor as suggested by castaway
Whaddaya think?
Update: Added form example
Hmmm...
C.
Simply show an edit screen with two forms: the current node content on top with a regular "submit" button and the rejected on the bottom with a "submit this instead" button or somesuch. That would make it very easy to eliminate the problem by cut-and-paste.