Nevyn (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} devnevyn) wrote,@ 2006-09-05 21:00:00 |
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linkd -- make cross-application links to VoodooPad
Okay, y'know. I wanted to be able to make a link in my List Of Doom (an OmniOutliner document containing... Everything.) into my VoodooPad document. In this particular instance, I've got a Watch list (list of movies and series I want to watch) and on it, is The Twilight Zone. Now, a friend of mine recommended some episodes. So I want to save this information. I *could* save it in the Notes pane of OO. More logical is to put it in my personal wiki, that is, my VoodooPad document, since that's where I want to have all 'reserve brain' info, and let OO be JUST a check list. So I needed the ability to make a link in OO that points to the information in VP.
I searched the documentation of VP. Found nothing. Internally, VP uses "voodoo://" links that don't seem to work outside the application.
As a hacker, what was I to do? I made it work, of course ;) I've made an application, called linkd, that listens to URLs of the form "vppage:///path/to/document?pageName" (and the same syntax in the additional schemes "vpdoc", "vppage-file", "vppage-http", "vpdoc-file", "vpdoc-http", although the 'http' variants don't work yet).
Download linkd. You just need to have it on your harddrive, and it'll automagically work.
I also made a Lua script for VoodooPad that generates a link for you. Just download this script, put it in ~/Application Support/VoodooPad/Script Plugins, open VoodooPad and navigate to the page you want to link to, and choose "Copy link of current page" from the Plugin > Lua menu.
Download the lua script.
And that's that.
Okay, y'know. I wanted to be able to make a link in my List Of Doom (an OmniOutliner document containing... Everything.) into my VoodooPad document. In this particular instance, I've got a Watch list (list of movies and series I want to watch) and on it, is The Twilight Zone. Now, a friend of mine recommended some episodes. So I want to save this information. I *could* save it in the Notes pane of OO. More logical is to put it in my personal wiki, that is, my VoodooPad document, since that's where I want to have all 'reserve brain' info, and let OO be JUST a check list. So I needed the ability to make a link in OO that points to the information in VP.I searched the documentation of VP. Found nothing. Internally, VP uses "voodoo://" links that don't seem to work outside the application.
As a hacker, what was I to do? I made it work, of course ;) I've made an application, called linkd, that listens to URLs of the form "vppage:///path/to/document?pageName" (and the same syntax in the additional schemes "vpdoc", "vppage-file", "vppage-http", "vpdoc-file", "vpdoc-http", although the 'http' variants don't work yet).
Download linkd. You just need to have it on your harddrive, and it'll automagically work.
I also made a Lua script for VoodooPad that generates a link for you. Just download this script, put it in ~/Application Support/VoodooPad/Script Plugins, open VoodooPad and navigate to the page you want to link to, and choose "Copy link of current page" from the Plugin > Lua menu.
Download the lua script.
And that's that.
