Earthstar Rambler

A hyperlinked spatial document browser and authoring environment.

SaM's PlAnS

• Implement a board component
  • Places linked docs using a PLACES edge
  • Is infinitely scrollable
    • Should start with a fixed size
    • Grows and shrinks as you scroll empty space
    • Dimensions ultimately depend on scroll pos + docs
    • Sizes linked docs using a SIZED edge
    • Can zoom in and out
• Good UI for resizing nodes
• Touch events
  • Move canvas on touch
  • Pinch to zoom
• Renders text docs
  • Editable text docs
• Renders image nodes
  • Make it so that you can tile an image too
• Add a 'status bar' (like when you hover over a URL) which shows who authored a doc, when, and where when hovering over a placed doc.
• Implement a way to create or add existing documents to the board
  • listen for a touch or click which lasts half a second without moving, using that to modify what happens during drag on canvas...
  • after drag ends, pop open a little dialog widget for adding a document
    • Existing (doc in workspace), opens a cutesy file browser
      • Have a section for linked but unplaced docs close in proximity to the cursor
    • New (text, image (triggers upload), coloured box, midi, audio)
• give react-earthstar a utility to read earthstar URLs
  • use this so that this app can create and edit documents using other earthstar apps
• text styling
• Rotatable nodes
• Renders audio (mp3/ogg/wav) files
  • Render something when there is no ID3 artwork attached to file
  • Fade volume in and out according to viewport proximity
• Renders midi nodes
  • Need to submit a patch to timidity to fix their broken browserify stuff for this
• Renders coloured boxes
• Renders disconnected nodes
  • Probably need this at the selection box level?
  • Lil old school red x box
• A way to control the z-index of nodes
• Normalise file upload names to be earthstar friendly
• A way to delete, not just unlink docs
• Transform author addresses in paths into shortname+identicon for legibility and space