Resolving the Note vs. Article distinction

[thebaer]

I’m experimenting with support for publishing both Notes and Articles in WriteFreely right now… In thinking about where to draw the line between the two, it might help to play around with an implementation like this.

Experiment: Notes in WriteFreely

I’ve been thinking about how WriteFreely might support publishing both Articles and Notes lately, just out of curiosity. Then I came across this thread, which inspired me to try a small WF modification where posts that don’t contain a newline will be sent out as Notes – otherwise they’ll be Articles, as usual. In this case, our definition of “Note” is kind of close to the spec: Represents a short written work typically less than a single paragraph in length. (Though maybe it’d be better to …