First day of the last month of the year, and thoughts turn to the new version of Notanda. I’ve got quite a lot I want to accomplish in what has turned into version 2 — not least of which is the porting to Python. (Although that port has become more of a rewrite.)

I would love to have that finished by the end of the month/year so that I can start up in January afresh. This is partly to do with the fact that I want a revamp of these date-associated journal entries (as opposed to the standalone articles). As I’ve written elsewhere, the yyyy_mm_dd format has served its purpose, but the ever-increasing root-level directories are going to get more and more unwieldy. Not so much from the public’s perspective, but the server-side and backend.

With that in mind, I’m going to add functionality to incorporate a folder structure like /yyyy/mm/dd/ which will be way more reasonable.

I’m still weighing creating a comments system, but in any case that likely won’t happen until Notanda 2 is in place.

Most of this will be on the backend, so the reading public won’t notice too many changes, apart from some better performance on those few items that are dynamic on the webserver.

One noticeable change will be a modified Related/Tags system. I am pondering different methodologies.