Today I mostly thought about how I was going to do the whole user journal thing.
I decided that an ordinary journal wasn't pretentious enough for the likes of us, and so, I decided I would try to imitate a REAL journal.
So this journal is organised in pages of 60 columns and 40 lines. You cannot go over this limit, but you can move onto the next page. There are no titles of pages as such, but you can make a 'heading' (there will be an index of headings automatically generated) by typing "{{THISISMYHEADING}}". You can delete pages, but this has the same drawbacks of tearing out pages in diaries: you might tear out the end of a previous journal entry. You could go back and blank (scribble) out the entry, but you end up with blank space. You cannot insert pages.
Also: as you are typing on a page, whenever the site detects that you've stopped typing, it will save automatically, even if you're not done. This will mean that people can 'watch' you writing the entry, if they so choose. You can mark the entry as complete by submitting the form when you are done.
Easy to use? Nope. Senseful? Yes. Recently I've been rather intrigued by the idea of coding things such that they work like real life objects. Plus, these kind of restrictions aid creativity, and can be interesting in ways I hadn't envisaged...
