Yes, I’m going talk more about Sqwee. I think it’s mostly because I’m excited about writing software with real version numbers… just kidding.

I’m still working on a good description of it. It’s incredibly simple stuff, but kind of hard to explain. It’s like a wiki, without lots of revisions and multiple users. So it’s like a personal wiki. But it is oriented towards being quick to install and quick to use, while retaining the flexibility for people to use it as they like. That’s why I sort of have the ‘prepackaged’ and ‘no frills’ versions, for running on a desktop and a shared server, respectively.

Anyways, enough blabbing about that stuff. I have been using Sqwee to take notes for a couple weeks now, and it actually works pretty well. But I noticed a couple of things that bugged me quite a bit:

First, if you are editing a page (taking notes) and you want to save it, but keep editing, you have to click ‘save’ and then ‘edit’ again. So I added the ‘quick save’ feature which will save the page but keep you in editing mode.

But then…how do you know it has really saved it and there wasn’t some problem? Or maybe it takes a long time to save or load a page…it would be nice to know when that kind of thing is “working on it” and when it has failed. So what I do now is have the button you press “gray out” while it is work in, then come back when it is complete. It works well when things are slow, but isn’t annoying when they are fast.

Anyhow, the point is that version 0.2.1 is out and I’m excited about the changes. Which, I forgot to mention, include the ability to search.