In Wagn, pretty much everything is a card:
Wagn organizes everything into cards. (Watch this video with subtitles)...
You may have noticed that you can open and close cards by clicking on their title (or the triangle beside the title). And if you're really paying attention, you'll see that some cards are included within other cards.
Cards can include other cards inside them. Inclusion has many benefits:...
- Edit inclusions in place, making them faster and easier
When a card is open, you can see what is called its type to the right of its title.
Card Types are a powerful tool for organizing information on Wagn. Every card has a type, and that type shapes what kind of...
These types really become significant once you start trying to organize your information. We call Wagn's unique approach to structure "connecting cards" or "plus cards" -- joining two cards together with a plus sign to form a new third card.
Plus cards are cards with a "+" in the name. The plus sign divides card names into left and right parts, creating a naming relationship...
Inclusion, types, and plus cards are fairly simple tools, but they open up some very powerful dynamic possibilities. For example, formatting uses those three elemental tools to create an elegant content management system. Formatting allows you to create default content and cardtypes, format page layouts, and more:
Forms are content patterns. Every day we encounter lots of formatted information: weather forecasts, sports cards, restaurant menus, user profile pages, tax documents and nutrition...
And Wagn becomes a much more powerful management tool once you begin to understand its nuanced permissioning system:
More Features
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Wagn lets you organize information with cards.
Wagn organizes everything into cards. (Watch this video with subtitles)...
Names
Every card has a unique name. Some name-related features:
With some card types, you may be not want to have to think about naming each one. The *autoname setting allows...Wagn lets you rename cards without breaking plus cards or links. That is, when you rename a card, Wagn finds all...Plus cards are cards with a "+" in the name. The plus sign divides card names into left and right parts, creating a naming relationship...Contextual (or "relative") names are abbreviated card names that can be interpreted differently based on context. These short-cut names are translated into "absolute"...Virtual cards are special plus cards that are configured to generate special content based on their names. They're not actually stored in the...
Types
Every card has also a type.
Card Types are a powerful tool for organizing information on Wagn. Every card has a type, and that type shapes what kind of...
Some special types:
The default cardtype. Uses a simple wysiwyg editor. Type not displayed beside name in card headers. All Basic CardsHTML cards open up a world of web power for Wagn. For a few examples including embedding a Twitter feed, chat, and video, see ...Card Types are a powerful tool for organizing information on Wagn. Every card has a type, and that type shapes what kind of...Pointer cards let you create and maintain lists of cards. They are a key tool in Wagneering, for ...Search cards let you query for cards using the Wagn Query Language (WQL, pronounced "wuckle") ....WQL, pronounced "wuckle", stands for WagnTo use a photograph or picture or any kind of image in Wagn:...
- Click here to create an image card. (Any way you
On Wagn you upload files to File cards, then include the cards wherever you want a link to the file to appear. Learn ...People who have requested accounts but not yet been approved (learn more about accounts): ...People with accounts generally have a User card. When you are signed in, you'll see a link to your User card toward the ...Roles can be thought of as groups of users, particularly for the purpose of granting permissions. Three roles exist in every ...A set is a card that defines a group of cards. Any given card belongs to multiple sets. For example, the ...Settings control various options about how a card looks and behaves. Each card's Options tab has a "settings" subtab that lets ...
Accounts
A card can be associated with a sign-in account.
Accounts help manage Wagn permissions and make it easier to see who's doing what. Every account has an associated card...
Editing
Cards are very simple to create, edit, and delete. Some useful editing-related features:
Wagn makes it very easy for you to link to other cards in Wagn, or to other websites. These links are tracked as ......Cards can include other cards inside them. Inclusion has many benefits:...
- Edit inclusions in place, making them faster and easier
A lot of Wagn's flexibility hinges on putting everything into cards, and then offering a wide variety of views of those cards. Views...WYSYWIG = What You See Is What You Get Wagn uses the customizable TinyMCE editor for user-friendly editing of rich text, so that...Suppose you're editing a card and click "Cancel", or your browser crashes, or you leave or close the page without saving. Wagn will have saved...CAPTCHA is an anti-spam device - usually a little picture of a word that a user has to type in before submitting a......Wagn lets you enable commenting on a card with a friendly comment box. User comments simply get added to the end of the card's
The Universal Edit Button is an icon...which shows up at the right end of the address bar of your web browser whenever
On every card you can click on the Changes tab at the top-right corner of the card to see the history of edits...Wagn lets you determine who has permission to delete different cards and card types, and keeps the content of cards in...
Look and Feel
Wagn's look and feel is highly customizable.
Don't like the way Wagn looks? Customize! You can change the color scheme and more by changing the CSS, and you can change...Wagn's appearance, and even some of its behavior, is controlled by Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). You can override any aspect of Wagn's default CSS by...As with most wikis, Wagn can show you recent activity — just click on the Recent link at the top of every page and it...Favicons are the little icons that appear in browser tabs. Wagn will try to make one from your logo, but this may not...
Rules
Wagn's uses "Rules" to configure groups of cards.
A rule is a special configuration that applies to a Set of cards. Some rules are represented in cards, while other are in...
Each of these features involves using settings to create rules:
Forms are content patterns. Every day we encounter lots of formatted information: weather forecasts, sports cards, restaurant menus, user profile pages, tax documents and nutrition...Wagn lets you create your own help text, which will show up when people are adding or editing cards. Help text is specified with two...Don't like the way Wagn looks? Customize! You can change the color scheme and more by changing the CSS, and you can change...Wagn can use a card's headings to auto-generate a table of contents on any card, or any set of cards using the...CAPTCHA is an anti-spam device - usually a little picture of a word that a user has to type in before submitting a...Wagn can send out customized emails with content based on the *send setting. Whenever a card in a set...With some card types, you may be not want to have to think about naming each one. The *autoname setting allows...
Sharing
These features help integrate wagn with other applications.
Wagn lets you watch cards, or even all cards of a given type. You get an email when other people change any of...Wagn provides a feed (RSS) of recently changed cards which you can subscribe to in web browsers and feed readers. There's also a...You can add a file ending to the name of a card to get the card content back in other formats. Currently supported formats include...Google Analytics offers statistics on usage of your website. Wagn makes it easy to take advantage of this. To get a Google Analytics key...
