Semi-Automatic Document Pruner Tool Launch TPS-0112

https://tacticalpermaculture.com/tools-semi-automatic-document-pruner.html

https://tacticalpermaculture.com/show/TPS-0112-Semi-Automatic-Document-Pruner-Tool-Launch.html

This is an announcement of another web application tool launch, and this is called the Semi Automatic Document Pruner.

It is one of the simpler tools that I've built recently, but I think it is very powerful. It's gonna be very powerful for me in my studies and my producing of intelligence products for my own use and for publishing.

In modern browsers, there's a tool that you can deploy which listens for when you make a selection, that selection can be tracked by the browser, not in the sense of tracking your location or tracking your cookies. I'm not using any of that. That's against my religion at this moment. But in terms of tracking, like tracking a mouse so that you can draw on a canvas, kind of a thing, it will sample what you were selecting on the page, and then you can do various things from a development perspective with that user interaction.

So I just built a tool where you could semi automatically take notes by selecting on a page, highlight and select an area of a page, and then it would generate generate notes for you.

So this is sort of the inverse of that. If that's creating positive space, this is negative space, in the sense that with this, the way I'm using that selection feature is that when you drag the mouse to make a selection, as soon as you let go of the mouse, whatever you selected is deleted from a document and disappears.

So it's removing a step or two from a normal word processing environment, whatever application you might use for that, where you highlight text, and then you would do a control, delete, or press delete, or control X, or there's various keyboard options, and right click or, or context menu options, depending on how you want to look at it.

Basically, it's a more efficient and more elegant experience. I'm using word pruning like using pruning shears but the idea is you copy and paste the text into the page and then you're able to trim it or prune it, just by making selections that as soon as you release the mouse, whatever selected disappears.

One application of this application, if you will, is that I'm about to digest an entire legal dictionary, one term at a time, from a master document that I created that has A to Z, every standard legal term and phrase that is worthy of being put into a dictionary.

That is one page that I have, one HTML page, it has from A to Z, and you just scroll from the top to the bottom.

What I wanna do with that is I wanna prune out all of the terms and definitions that are not relevant to my life or to this project, or to the context of what I'm publishing.

So as I go through that document, rather than copying and pasting and saving the ones I want, because I know I'm gonna read the whole thing from start to finish, not in one sitting, but I wanna be able to just eliminate, just remove. If I read it and it doesn't apply, I select it. It's gone. If I read ten in a row and none of them apply, I select all those ten. They're gone. The document automatically adapts in the size and adjust itself.

What will be left is just a pruned master list of all of the legal terms and definitions that I think are important for me to know and that I would want to share with people.

That's just one example.

You can copy and paste anything into into that box and do a similar process of whatever makes sense.

This process would take me however many sessions to complete it, rather than having to obviously be forced to do it all in one sitting, I've added the feature where you can save and export, so that once you save an export one time, you no longer have to go back to my website to retrieve the file or to you don't have to create an account or log in or save anything on my server.

You load the page once from my server, and then forever after, when you save an export, you're gonna be saving and re saving and over overwriting your local copy of that file.

You can continually save and export and then start over just by opening that HTML page again, and you can open it and work on it offline.

It has no more communication with my server after the initial load of the page in your browser ever after.

It's yours to keep privately and to continue to work on. I would recommend if you wanna do this offline, continually save, save a fresh copy that has nothing pasted into it so that you can regenerate it again on the fly.

Because if you save an export and you've already done some trimming, there's no going back from that point. It's been removed from the document. So if that makes sense, you're free to use it.

Hopefully it brings some cruise control to your document editing.