It's been a while, but in the last few weeks I realised this just needed a few fixes and a couple of pictures to work. So here it is, in all its simplicity:

http://fsavard.com/code/pairsgame/

It's just client-side (there's no image bank with upload functionality etc.), but one thing I might do is allow loading the cards URLs from a script elsewhere on the Web, so someone might use whatever he wants as images.

Nice work jccovey, I like the new UI. I agree landmarks could be saved publicly, but otherwise Google accounts could be used (real simple).

As for the notes and markers, there are already many webapps offering such features, I think. Diigo springs to my mind.

(Sorry for lack of updates, I've been away traveling for 3 weeks)

OK it was clearly time for progress here! :P So I've coded a first draft of a bookmarklet, works pretty well, actually, with some quick smoke tests in FF3: http://fsavard.com/code/landmarks.js.

Basically you add the code for the bookmarklet (given at top of script) in a bookmark, go to a page, click the bookmark. Then if all goes well a floating box should appear. Afterwards, select some text, click "New landmark..." and it should add links based on your selection, to make it easier to come back.

Some possible remaining tasks: * saving bookmarks to server-side (right now they aren't saved anywhere) * testing this in other browsers, more pages (this is a bookmarklet after all... its immune system needs strenghtening) * code some pretty CSS/layout for the box, since they links inherit the page's style, the button is an ugliness incarnate, etc.

EDIT: other tasks * add functionality to bookmarklet: * hide the box, * add something visible in the page for each landmark (possible by modifying the node that gets inserted as landmark [HTML_REMOVED])

Other?

Yup I know about Kyodai, played quite a bit with it ~5 years ago. At the time, though, the problem was precisely that there was a maximum board size which I wanted to exceed, but couldn't. Hence the desire for arbitrary board size; hence the project.

But thanks for the pointer :)

Hey mannicken. I also happen to have a heavy tendency to evolve twisted planning systems one after another. Up to now, though, I was kept back because I tried to build them with GUI bells&whistles, and always eventually gave up due to time constraints, so I could never do it exactly how I want it. In the last few days I decided to go the todo.txt way and built a set of scripts & accompanying todo.txt/log.txt format. More details here:

http://www.fsavard.com/flow/2009/03/plyn-yet-another-textfile-and-scripts-based-todo-system/

Of course it doesn't have your probabilistic model built in, but you could easily add it (provided you don't mind coding in Python) as a function of parameters in the todo.txt file. What I mean is: the basics are there.

As I said, personally, the GUI (be it Web (Rails) or other) held me back. With text files I can concentrate on the info itself, and it's soooo liberating. Next thing I'll add is repeat tasks.

So if you'd like to use this, you can send questions my way, no problem (the doc is probably not that clear).

@psytek ok google code repository created: http://code.google.com/p/shortenize. I'll add those who want it as members.

I also coded a bookmarklet as a demo of the functionality: http://shortenize.appspot.com/static/embed.js (see bookmarklet code in comment at the top).

OK I created a Google Code repository and added a first version of the client side:

http://code.google.com/p/machingpairs/

No images yet, and it relies on CSS classes for state.

@tectonic: I don't know for others, but I was thinking more of online meetings, chat over SignalFire, IRC, or something similar.

OK I've reused the code by impeachgod and made the wordcloud with <span>s with font-sizes. It's under the form of a bookmarklet, which you can readily use. Check it out at: http://www.fsavard.com/code/wordcloud.js

The EtherPad has been updated, too.

By the way the Userscripts could make for easy task division: one or two of us could work on adding summaries to the Hacker News homepage, two others could work on Google Reader, etc.