📑 Drummer has a feature called the glossary …
Drummer has a feature called the glossary, it’s been part of every outliner I have done since the mid-90s. It’s a very simple idea. A table that associates terms with text. If I use one of the terms in my writing, when it’s published, the term is replaced with the text.
I love the idea of a glossary for my site. For example, when I say Ben Collins, it would be cool if it would automatically link to his website, similar to how Google+ worked. I sometimes do this at the moment by linking to my own posts. For example, when talking about care as the first principle, I link to my own bookmark, rather than link to Dave Cormier’s post. This is often why I start writing my longer Read Write Respond posts on this site as it makes it easier to link to existing posts and ideas. It would just be nicer to have a cleaner workflow like Dave Winer has with Drummer.
Hi Aaron,
Drummer has a lot of interesting features, I am kicking the tyres a little. When I started this blog I used pivot, a flat file php blogging system. It also had this sort of feature, although they didn’t call it a glossary. I would think someone could write a WordPress plugin to do the same sort of thing.
A previous outline & blog system from Dave Winer, Fargo, had a post to WordPress feature. I am wondering if this might be possible for Drummer too.