{"id":2414,"date":"2015-03-12T22:49:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T03:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seth-swanson.com\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2015-03-12T22:49:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T03:49:22","slug":"the-ides-of-march-wordkeeperalpha-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/12\/the-ides-of-march-wordkeeperalpha-update\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ides of March – WordKeeperAlpha update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alright. \u00a0So it isn’t really<\/i>\u00a0the “Ides” of March yet, but I like say “ides”. \u00a0 But I digress (“Digress” is another word I like). Here we are, three and a half months into the year and what do I have to show for it? \u00a0Plenty! \u00a0You just may or may not notice it. \u00a0That’s because I’ve been diligently (kinda) working on bugs and other issues that have been reported to me by my wonderful users.<\/p>\n

That isn’t sarcastic. \u00a0You guys really are wonderful and I really do appreciate it when you let me know when something isn’t working right. \u00a0As stated before, I’m only one man, and the likelyhood that I’ll find everything wrong with this Frankenstein’s Monster that I’ve cobbled together is minimal, especially when I think it works perfectly. \u00a0Trust me, I know it doesn’t.<\/p>\n

WordKeeperAlpha development has is largely limited to the weekends now, while I focus more on getting my book done. \u00a0That doesn’t leave me as much time as I’d like for adding new features, but I AM working on them. \u00a0If you haven’t noticed the bugs, I’m not going to lay them out for you here. \u00a0If you have noticed bugs, and they haven’t been fixed yet, please let me know, and I’ll make it a priority to fix. \u00a0One major one that has been repeatedly pointed out to me is that the “Remember Me” box isn’t working properly yet. \u00a0*sigh* \u00a0Don’t worry, I’m not sighing at you, I’m sighing at me. \u00a0I’ve though that I’ve had this stupid thing sorted out twice now, but every time I think I’ve got it whipped, it rears its ugly head once again. \u00a0I am <\/b>working on it… in fact its my primary goal right now. \u00a0So please, bear with me for just a while longer.<\/p>\n

Other feautres that I’m working on:<\/p>\n

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  1. Public author pages (don’t worry, you’ll chose if you have a public page or not.)<\/li>\n
  2. An API, so that other people can develop WordPress or other blog plugin’s to share your progress and projects.<\/li>\n
  3. A semi-public writing room and simple text-editor to accomidate word sprints. More on this below.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I’ve always wanted WordKeeperAlpha to be a more social experience for writers, but at the same time, I also don’t want to be the Facebook for authors. \u00a0There’s already one of those. \u00a0It’s called Facebook. \u00a0What I want is to create something that will let authors interact and motivate each other. \u00a0Motivation is the key here and I think word sprints are the first thing that I want to take a stab at. \u00a0I’ve been on the fence about it, since there are scads of different options for you to write in. \u00a0 Hell, I’ve got no less than six apps on my iPad that I can write in, distraction free. \u00a0I don’t need to reinvent that particular wheel. \u00a0What I’m shooting for is a really simple writing environment that will let many authors participate in the same writing sprint. \u00a0It may work, it might not, but I’m going to try it and see what people think.<\/span><\/p>\n

    This, of course, is where you come in. \u00a0Do you think I’m going in the wrong direction with WordKeeperAlpha? \u00a0Is there something that you’d like to see more than a blog plugins or a feature that supports word sprints? \u00a0Do you think that would be the bee’s knees (I have yet to figure out why a bee having knees would be anything someone would be excited about)? \u00a0Leave me a comment and justify my exist… \u00a0I mean give me feedback on what you think I should do with WordKeeper next.<\/span><\/p>\n

    … …\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Seriously, someone leave me a comment. \u00a0Its way to quiet around here.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Alright. \u00a0So it isn’t really\u00a0the “Ides” of March yet, but I like say “ides”. \u00a0 But I digress (“Digress” is another word I like). Here we are, three and a half months into the year and what do I have to show for it? \u00a0Plenty! \u00a0You just may or may not notice it. \u00a0That’s because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[95,101,102,105],"class_list":["post-2414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wordkeeper","tag-update","tag-word-counter","tag-word-metrics","tag-wordkeeperalpha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}