Playing with Offpunk
I have been trying a new terminal-based browser called 'Offpunk'. I figure a lot of people here on Gemini already know what it is, but this Sylvan hadn't tried it yet, so I'll talk about it. A fellow geminaut friend said I should try it, since I am always trying to do more in the Terminal. I like what the Offpunk capsule says about it - "Offpunk is intended for people who live in their terminal and don't want to leave it."
Offpunk is really cool. I love the idea that you can download information from the internet - Gemini, Gopher, Web, etc - and then you just have the information available without having to be online. You can browse what you have in an offline mode, and stay offline the vast majority of the time.
If you use your offline copy of material to follow a link you haven't downloaded, that new link is marked for syncing. And you can go into your downloaded holes and capsules, and while reading your downloaded content, you can type 'reload', and that will add that location to be updated in the future.
You can go online (type 'on'), then 'sync', and then go back offline ('off'), and anything you have marked for syncing is downloaded during the syncing process.
You can also use the "tour" feature. Tour will go through the stuff you wanted to visit previously, but that needed to be downloaded.
There's other things you can do with offpunk, like create separate lists for different types of content, stuff like that. I haven't got into all the features yet. I am still exploring. I am mainly using 'go', 'forward', 'back' (all these can be abbreviated - g, f, b), reload, sync, online, offline, and bookmarks (bm to view bookmarks, 'add' to add something to bookmarks).
Thanks to Ploum for creating this great software!
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