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		<title>Introducing iJot</title>
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		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Next generation Web publishing&lt;/b&gt;">
			<outline text="&lt;img src=&quot;/images/logo_sw.gif&quot; alt=&quot;logo&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; vspace=&quot;0&quot;&gt;Wikis and weblogs make publishing on the Web a snap these days. Or do they ? Weblogs are somewhat constrained by their native chronological journal form, and most wikis could be a lot easier to set-up and update."/>
			<outline text="What if your content is more complex and structured than a few blog entries ? What if you want to provide richer presentation and a more advanced reading interface ?"/>
			<outline text="Enter &lt;a href=&quot;http://ijot.net/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;iJot&apos;s authoring interface&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;iJot&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:"/>
			<outline text="&lt;b&gt;write&lt;/b&gt; your notes &lt;i&gt;directly&lt;/i&gt; into your web browser"/>
			<outline text="&lt;b&gt;organize&lt;/b&gt; them using the built-in &lt;i&gt;outliner&lt;/i&gt; "/>
			<outline text="&lt;b&gt;save&lt;/b&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;b&gt;publish&lt;/b&gt; them, all &lt;i&gt;at once&lt;/i&gt;."/>
			<outline text="That&apos;s it - you&apos;ve published a web site, complete with weblog and updates feeds."/>
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		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Publishing outlines&lt;/b&gt;">
			<outline text="Outlines are structured documents, primarily texts, organized in a tree-like hierarchy of paragraphs."/>
			<outline text="Their most distinctive advantage over plain text is the small wedge - usually a triangular symbol - that appears at the left of most paragraphs (or nodes) : clicking it reveals (expands) or hides (collapses) the underlying content of the paragraph.">
				<outline text="With iJot, bringing the cursor over a collapsed wedge provides a sneak preview of the underlying hidden content, making browsing through documents a faster experience: no need to click if you do not plan on exploring that topic further."/>
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			<outline text="Thanks to outline inclusion, an interesting property pioneered - like most outliner features - by the amazing &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;scripting news&quot;&gt;Dave&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Winer&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;wikipedia article&quot;&gt;Winer&lt;/a&gt;, the embedded content does not need to reside in the same document as the containing paragraph.">
				<outline text="Inclusion further provides the reader with an enriched kind of hypertext link: the linked content is embedded into the current document, preserving its surrounding context.">
					<outline text="Once retrieved, the linked content behaves like regular outline nodes, and can be hidden or revealed, in part of as a whole, at the reader&apos;s convenience."/>
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				<outline text="Adapting this property to the web browser, we extended it to link to non textual content, such as digital pictures, sound bites or movies, as well as non natively outlined texts, such as RSS news feeds."/>
				<outline text="Learn more about outline inclusion by clicking the up-arrow wedge at the left of this paragraph." type="link" url="/docs/inclusion/inclusion.opml"/>
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			<outline text="Outlining gives the author a way of providing readers with several layers of relevance in the same document: the initial display usually gives a synthetic view, drilling down by &apos;expanding&apos; or &apos;including&apos; relevant paragraphs progressively reveals more detailed information."/>
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		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;An outliner in your browser&lt;/b&gt;">
			<outline text="To create outlines, the best tool is an outliner: a text editor that allows you to control the level of detail that&apos;s visible, and allows you to reorganize text according to its structure. Outliners as desktop applications have been around for quite a while.">
				<outline text="I remember discovering with wonder the outliner built into what I think was an early version of Emacs, on a Symbolics &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;wikipedia article&quot;&gt;Lisp Machine&lt;/a&gt;, in early 1981. By that time, Dave Winer probably had already released his first desktop outliner, Visitext."/>
				<outline text="Software history buffs should both visit &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.outliners.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;archives from the golden age of outliners&quot;&gt;outliners.com&lt;/a&gt; and read Ted Goranson&apos;s excellent &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.atpm.com/9.09/atpo.shtml&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;about this particular outliner&quot;&gt;outliner series&lt;/a&gt;."/>
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			<outline text="iJot is the demo service for &lt;a href=&quot;http://weboutliner.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;more about webOutliner&quot;&gt;webOutliner&lt;/a&gt;, a new breed of outliner that lives right into your web browser page, thanks to all kinds of not so recent programming techniques now fashionably designated &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;wikipedia article&quot;&gt;AJAX&lt;/a&gt;.">
				<outline text="webOutliner development started in Fall 2002 though, way before AJAX became a buzz word."/>
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		<outline text="So how does publication work ?">
			<outline text="iJot is &lt;a href=&quot;http://docs.ijot.net/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;a quick introduction, try clicking the up-arrow instead&quot;&gt;about&lt;/a&gt; creating whole Web sites out of outlines."/>
			<outline text="Each page on your iJot site, as well as each day in its attached weblog, is an outline, which you create and edit through iJot&apos;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://ijot.net/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;an outliner in your browser&quot;&gt;authoring interface&lt;/a&gt;."/>
			<outline text="Thus each page has a DHTML version for regular Web browsing - &lt;a href=&quot;http://docs.ijot.net/Home/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;published version&quot;&gt;http://docs.ijot.net/Home/&lt;/a&gt; for this one, and an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opml.org/about&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;opml specifications&quot;&gt;OPML&lt;/a&gt; version for editing and &lt;a href=&quot;http://docs.ijot.net/Inclusion/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;see it in action, click the up-arrow wedge&quot;&gt;inclusion&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://docs.ijot.net/Home/Home.opml&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;authoring version&quot;&gt;http://docs.ijot.net/Home/Home.opml&lt;/a&gt; in this case.">
				<outline text="The former is automatically created out of the latter by a process called &lt;a href=&quot;http://services.activerenderer.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;activeRenderer services&quot;&gt;rendering&lt;/a&gt;. The rendered DHTML code is then inserted in a template to form the final published version."/>
				<outline text="At this time, you cannot modify publishing templates. This feature will soon be available."/>
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		<outline text="Enough said... The next step is to play with the iJot demonstration site. When you&apos;re ready to jump in, &lt;a href=&quot;http://ijot.net/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;check the top right corner&quot;&gt;create&lt;/a&gt; your own site.">
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://docs.ijot.net/GettingStarted/#home&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Modify&lt;/a&gt; its home page."/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://docs.ijot.net/GettingStarted/#add&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Create&lt;/a&gt; additional pages."/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://docs.ijot.net/GettingStarted/#weblog&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Add&lt;/a&gt; weblog entries."/>
			<outline text="Update the bookmarks navigation widget."/>
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		<outline text="We&apos;d like to think you&apos;ll find it easy. Try following &lt;a href=&quot;http://docs.ijot.net/GettingStarted/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;getting started&quot;&gt;these steps&lt;/a&gt;."/>
		<outline text="At all times, keep your cool. Remember iJot is still in development. Before it drives you crazy, try joining the &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ijot-support/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;hosted by yahoo groups&quot;&gt;ijot-support&lt;/a&gt; group/mailing list to hopefully get answers or report bugs.">
			<outline text="The support group has its own RSS &lt;a href=&quot;http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/ijot-support/rss&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;subscribe to ijot-support&quot;&gt;feed&lt;/a&gt;." type="rss" url="http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/ijot-support/rss"/>
			<outline text="So has the iJot &lt;a href=&quot;http://ijot.net/blog/rss.rdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;subscribe to demo weblog&quot;&gt;Demo Weblog&lt;/a&gt;, which reports development progress." type="rss" url="http://ijot.net/blog/rss.rdf"/>
			<outline text="There is even a weblog to post documentation &lt;a href=&quot;http://docs.ijot.net/blog/rss.rdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;subscribe to docs updates&quot;&gt;updates&lt;/a&gt;." type="rss" url="http://docs.ijot.net/blog/rss.rdf"/>
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