I just released WebnoteHappy 1.2! It’s even more del.icio.us. What do I mean by that? You now have the full roundtrip from your desktop to del.icio.us and back. The previous versions already uploaded your changes immediately to del.icio.us after you share publicly, save privately, or change any previously shared/saved webnotes. 1.2 adds the ability to periodically synchronize with any changes made via the web interface of del.icio.us. To enable this, go to the Preferences window and choose a time interval other than “Manual” in the “Import from del.icio.us:” dropdown menu. I modeled that loosely off of NetNewsWire’s Downloading preference.
Also for del.icio.us is being able to choose whether your new webnotes will be shared, saved privately, or kept locally. Previously in 1.1, it was just whatever you last chose. After further reflection, it seemed like you as the user needed more control over this, so here you go! This is available in the Preferences window under “Default sharing status for new webnotes:”. The default is “Keep local”.
But if you want to have a pure del.icio.us experience with the elegance of a desktop app, just fire up WebnoteHappy, set the Import from del.icio.us preference to “Every 30 minutes”, and the Default sharing status to “Share publicly via del.icio.us”. Even in this mode, you can always choose to keep any webnote local or make it private on del.icio.us.
There’s lots of other good stuff in the new version, like support for the add/edit hot key in Firefox (thanks mph!) and Shiira (the new browser on the block.) Lots of crowd favorites like being able to edit more fields of a webnote, specifically the URL. Handy for those really long URLs. I originally resisted this since I use URLs as unique identifiers for webnotes, but I worked through the changes need to make this happen. Also the main window will stay closed/hidden when you use the add/edit hot key. Finally, there’s two new hot keys, one for editing a webnote (Command-E) and renaming a webnote (Command-Return).
Enjoy! Now I’m off to do some skunkworks coding to prepare for WWDC. :)
[…] WebnoteHappy 1.2 with some improved del.icio.us support and real Firefox support is out, so WebNoteFoxy can go gently into that good night of duct-tape jobs eager for their own obsolescence. You get the full “tags, notes and sharing options” ride from the app with no hackery. Cool. […]
[…] **Update: WebnoteHappy 1.2 removes the need for any fiddling with scrtips or the like … Firefox support just works now, just as it does with Safari. Yay! ** […]
Congratulations on the new release. Looks like WebnoteHappy is evolving quickly!
Hm.
I just tried this out with OmniWeb 5.5b2, which I thought was supported (don’t remember the page to ref it at the moment). Unfortunately, it looks like OW binds the default keystroke to its own downloads window, and I see this in the console:
WebnoteHappy[329] *** -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (0) beyond bounds (0)
Is there any way to unbind an app’s keystroke? I don’t usually want one-stroke access to a downloads window, but I always want WebnoteHappy. :-)
Manton – thanks! Glad you’re along for the ride.
mph – I’m going be taking a look at OmniWeb 5.5 support next week at WWDC, especially now that we’re past the “sneaky peek” stage. Especially if I run into anyone from Omni!
The [NSCFArray …] bug is due to OW 5.5b2 not supporting do javascript properly, which I use to get the selected text. I’ll probably drop that until OW 5.5 gets that ability back.
Hey, Luis. Thanks for the response. That’s a mild bummer, but I guess I can just change WebNoteFoxy to WebNoteOmni. :-)