SSWI — CJD Notepad in Beta

CJD Notepad in Beta,

Written in Frisco, TX on June 8, 2005 and tagged with wp-hacks.

So my buddy Kartooner tells me he had this great idea for a plugin. What if we had a place to store information gathered for a post that was outside of the post mechanism, a place to take “notes”? He had looked around (apparently not very hard), and couldn’t find one, so would I like to write if for him?

Oh and apparently our Binary Bonsai friend thought it sounded keen as well.

I am such a push over

So I of course said, “Sure that would be easy.. all it really does is throw data into the DB and then take it back out again.” What a maroon. I had forgotten how much I like to tinker, and how I like to add features out the whazihoogee to stuff I write. So a few hours turned into 3 days of an hour here, two or three there.

I have been asked to expound on why this is better than using a draft or private post. Well for me, and it is all about me, it is better since I am using the post_id in my design. So if I am planning a longer article, say like my Secrets of WP Theming series, but want to shoot off a couple of smaller posts between, then I don’t have to worry about the numbers getting out of order.

For other people, I have no idea. Kartooner and Michael think it is a good idea, so I could really care less. 3 people wanting to use it is enough to convince me it needs to be written.

So if you would like to check out this plugin, and help beta test, then by all means go over to the announcement page and read through the notes and download it.

And oh yes, I know there is another plugin that does almost the same thing, I found out about it today… but I like mine better, so there.

If you post about this on Twitter, please use the hashtag #silly490.

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Michele, on March 1, 2007

Sounds nice to me! I’m going to download it immediately and start testing it as soon as possible.

Thanks for another great plugin!

kusaeni, on March 1, 2007

yup I thionk this is a great plugin , but I have an error when I using it. The error message is :

Warning: the_notepad(edit-note.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/ksaeni/public_html/wp-content/plugins/notepad/cjd_notepad.php on line 43
Warning: the_notepad(): Failed opening ‘edit-note.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/ksaeni/public_html/wp-content/plugins/notepad/cjd_notepad.php on line 43 .

Its beta?

pls help ..

sorry for my english

kusaeni, on March 1, 2007

sorry for my stupid brain ,

I fix my own problem , i forget that edit-note.php file is not yet transfered to my notepad folder.

thanks , really great plugin

Orlando, on March 1, 2007

Chris, thks for the info.

Jay, on March 1, 2007

Great plugin Chris!

Chris J. Davis, on March 1, 2007

Hey Khaled,

Oh yeah, I was not meaning that his plugin had no worth, it is rather nice, and I will pick up a couple of things from it I am sure.

I was just saying that I am continuing on with mine, since you know I have spent time writing it, and I always like my toys better than anyone elses.

Orlando, on March 1, 2007

Oh boy!

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/orlando/public_html/garfos/wp-admin/admin-header.php:8) in /home/orlando/public_html/garfos/wp-content/plugins/notepad/draftme.php on line 15

Any clue?

khaled, on March 1, 2007

Yep, I’ve been using that plugin by Michalis for a while now. There is something nice about both plugins to be honest. What I like about the notes is that you can clean up if you’re not happy. He’s also kept a pretty tongue in cheek attitude for the whole thing options page which is really cool.

However what I do like about cjdnotes is that you get to view the notes better.

Maybe have a look at what he’s done with the whole cleaning up of the database might be nice. Also there’s a function for sorting out the notes themselves which again is a nice feature.

Chris J. Davis, on March 1, 2007

Hey Orlando,

Oh you mean when you try to use the Convert to Draft feature that as I outlined on the page you downloaded from, that feature is not implemented as of yet.

I would urge people to read in total that page before you download and try to use this plugin.