atduskgreg/drift

Cocoa app for creating and editing gists. Written in MacRuby.

Drift

Drift is a Gist-backed text editor written in MacRuby. Depending on how you look at it, it either lets you edit your gists, or gives you an always-already versioned, cloud-backed text-editor. Here's a screenshot:

Features

• Create and upload new gists
• Edit and update existing gists (created with Drift)
• Store github credentials
• Display activity when going over the wire to GitHub
• Copy gist url into clipboard on creation

Drift Needs a Logo!

Do you have slick Mac app logo-creating ability? Now accepting submissions: greg DOT borenstein AT gmail DOT com

Drift Needs better icons!

Man, these icons are fugly. Help! greg DOT borenstein AT gmail DOT com

TODO:

• import all gists belonging to the user (if we have gh info)

• get name of newly imported gists

• save imported gists to library

• get gist list to scroll

• deal with save prompt on quit for unsaved docs

• rename GEDocument's associated_library to something that indicates it's a tableView and not a library; like maybe "associatedTableView"

• unifying networking code to remove duplication from GEDocument#putGist and GEDocument#postGist

• error handling on talking to GH

• make creating a new document not open a new window

• figure out why GEGistListDelegate doesn't have access to associatedDocument in numberOfRowsInTableView

• button to remove gist from tracked gists

• button to delete gists

• all these buttons should also be menu items/hot keys

• clean up some of the logging

• automatic updating of gist on a timed basis

drift's Issues

Should show the list of gists at launch sometimes

We should show the list of gists as context if it's been a while since you used the app.

iPad: Support no-account use case

Something like this:

• Login screen has a "continue without an account" button, in addition to login and signup.
• You can create anonymous gists like normal.
• When you log in with anonymous gists on the device, you are prompted to claim them (which, until the API supports it, will just push your anonymous gists to your new account)

Easy way to do it would be to add a user ID to local gists, which we're going to want to do anyway for browsing other users' gists.

iPad: first run experience

show me that you found my gists!

iPad: welcome gist if you don't have any

saying some stuff

App Icon

PNG:
http://imgur.com/cUYhb.png
ICNS: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/457451/octocat%20timemachine.icns

iPad: Better login experience

Whether it's OAuth or some other kludge, it should be better.

Tag anonymous gists with some kind of device identifier

Just in case people lose important shit, it'd be nice to be able to recover it for them. Might be able to just use the description field for this. Probably want to hash the device ID for privacy's sake.

iPad: screen/keyboard got out of sync somehow

I can't repro right now, but it got into a state somehow where there was a big gap between the editing area and the keyboard. Should make the text view resizing more robust.

iPad: new gist responder issue

clicking the new gist button creates an empty page with keyboard and no cursor. keyboard is responsive but typing does not occur.

iPad: Finalize copy before 1.0

Login screen:

• Blurb
• "Don't have an account?" etc. graf
• "Drift in Permanent Maintenance since 2011" or some such

welcome.txt

Buttons:

• Gists
• New Gist
• Switch User

If we support the account-less use case, we're going to want copy somewhere briefly outlining the pluses and minuses of it and encouraging people to make a github account. Maybe a welcome-anonymous.txt?

iPad: why does it freak out with greg's gists?

why? why, devin? why?