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I'm trying to do something similar with outlines. It isn't so much a text editor as it is a social collection builder. I call it insanely organized social media. You can call it http://MindWallet.com .

Here is how I used it to cover the startupbus: http://www.mindwallet.com/?ItemKey=787541c7-0860-41ea-a21a-2...

You probably won't use it. No one else does. :-(

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Dude, why on earth do you need all those FB permissions? hackpad requests only email, and the barrier is still too high.

Future features. The goal is to give you a good place to org your friends and get the updates you are really interested in.

So, for the sake of potential future features that you think people might want, but haven't yet implemented, and don't really know for sure, you make it harder for people to use it now. For the sake of making it "future proof" you put hurdles in place to prevent people from using it now.

People using it now gives you a working group of testers for new features. Don't make it harder for them.

Actually, let me be more clear. One of the core features is that we let you post to facebook directly from mindwallet. We then need to read your stream to let you know when you have new comments. The fb post and comments are given an inherent context by were in your mindwallt you post from. This extends the life of your post beyond the usual temporal stream. The perms we ask for are: 1: email to establish ownership of your mw account. 2: post to wall to let you do so. 3: read stream to show you new comments 4: offline access to show others in context comments when they look at your mindwallet.

I think I can remove friend's stream for now, but that is the only unimplemented feature.

I believe I just ask for email, wall posting, and access to streams. I'll take a look at my config file.

"it is a social collection builder. I call it insanely organized social media."

Maybe your description isn't empowered enough? "insanely cloud enabled agile social media experience" should appeal to just about everybody.

Can I use that? Seriously though, I'm trying to figure out what to call it.

I'm adding twitter to the mix in the next releas...maybe that will help it live up to the name.

I checked it out - didn't get past the first bullet point of what it does:

"Organize your life in a todo list."

No thanks. I don't need that.

It is mire than that. But you have to read past the first bullet and that is a problem. I'm still tring to figure out what it is myself and I use it constantly.

Mindwallet looks neat. Quick feedback: the +/- signs are too small and frustrate me when I want to expand/collapse. If you made that interaction easier the navigating would be a lot simpler.

Thanks for the feed back I have a CSS nightmare and am looking for design help. It is clearly not my strong suite.

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