I like playing with toys, but I like neat tools more. Here's a list I've compiled over the years. It's far from exhaustive, but it's what I've got! You'll notice that most of them are not actually easter eggs but tools which folks have sweated over to make aspects of e2 easier, more interesting, or fun to use. /Msg me if you'd like to see an addition.
Many of the more useful of these are already located in the list of utilities commonly found in the Vitals nodelet running down the right side of the screen.
Not all of these will display the same information depending on your level or if you are an ed or admin. For example, leaders of usergroups can use the simple usergroup editor while noders who do not head a group cannot. Makes sense, I think.
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State of being:
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My Big Writeup List Everything wot you wrote.
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honor roll and you Where you stand in the honor roll.
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Voting Oracle This gives you an idea of how often you vote.
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Golden Trinkets This lets you in on your total number of blessings, if any.
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Noding speedometer This gives you an idea of how fast you're noding. You need to have at least 50 writeups for this to work.
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your nodeshells You thought they just drifted away on the tide didn't you? They come back with it too. Every nodeshell you made that's still in existence. And as of 4/2006, searchable by user!
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Your filled nodeshells Brand new from ascorbic! (4/06)
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Punch Thyself A way to remove XP from yourself in small increments. This does not affect writeup rep, just overall XP.
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E2 Nodegel Visualizer Provides offsite links. Pyrogenic's works again! A nodegel visualizer is a graphic representation of your writeups. Some are prettier than others, and they're all interesting. nodeSTAR is another wu about a nodegel visualizer brought to my attention by Taliesin's Muse. The site still exists, but it doesn't appear to actually process anything anymore. Still, there's a gallery of old visualizations if you'd like to see how they work. I've got an inquiry in with BlakJak on the state of the site
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E2 node tracker Provides offsite links. A node tracker is a handy way of seeing which of your writeups are being voted on. You have to establish a base-line, however, so do it before you wonder "gee, where did that -1 just come from?"
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E2 Link and Logger Client Provides offsite dl location. It's complicated, but it's also meant to be "all in one" for many useful tools. Take a look!
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Writeup tools: None of these replace learning a little bit of basic html and good formatting guidelines. I don't use any of the formatters, but instead reference E2 HTML Tags. -
link view One of my favorite tools. The link only appears when you're in a single writeup view, and it allows you to see all the links in the writeup divided by which lead somewhere and which do not. It does not differentiate between nodeshells and nodes with content, however.
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E2 Offline Scratchpad link courtesy of wertperch as one of his favorite tools. Provides an outside link, but also other info. Useful!
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E2 node backup (Or use the offsite link) another good find by wertperch. SAVE your NODES!
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Text Formatter Does what it says.
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E2 Source Code Formatter
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Wharfinger's Linebreaker Breaks lines, ideally for things like poetry.
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E2 Paragraph Tagger
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E2 List Formatter
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alphabetizer link courtesy of JohnnyGoodyear. Handy!
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Rot13 Writing in code is not to be used lightly but sometimes it's merited. Here's a coder/decoder for ease of use.
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Reaching out: I have left off registries which may contain actual addresses. There are many ways for noders to keep in touch outside of e2 proper, but I'm not comfortable documenting them here. -
Message Inbox See all your incoming messages and the chatterbox at the same time (assuming you're not /chatteroff, in which case you'll only see your messages).
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squawkbox Monitor more than one room at the same time.
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chatterlight Takes less to load, etc, if you're just catboxing. Remember not to talk all the time!
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/chatteroff for when you're feeling antisocial and want the catbox to go away. The squawkbox will still work when you're /chatteroff. Clicking the link provided when you are chatteroff or using the code /chatteron turns the catbox back on.
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e2 rooms Official rooms. Not all of which may be available for your use.
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available rooms Meanwhile at and after level 5, noders can create rooms. All the available rooms are listed here.
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Create Room Feature The link is above the room location in your nodelets if you are level 5 and up, but there's more information about it in the writeup.
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Usergroup Lineup See what usergroups are out there.
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simple usergroup editor This only works for noders who run a usergroup.
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Everything Finger Not naughty at all, this lets you see who's on.
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Who to send presents to, and when. Birthdays!
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E2 Family tree with thanks to C-dawg and the forum.
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Taking in the sights: -
25 25 newest writeups
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Everything New Nodes 100 newest
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E2N 200 newest
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ENN 300 newest
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EKN 1024 newest. Wow....
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Random nodeshells is a new tool which pulls up a list of just that. Nifty!
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Everything Document Directory Superdoc list. This won't display anything if you're not member of a group with access to it.
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Everything's Best Users See who has the highest rep and the highest merit out of all of e2. This is truly an amazing list.
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Node row What writeups are waiting to be deleted and make their long trek to node heaven.
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Everything's Most Wanted Some users and groups have put out bounties on things they'd like to see noded. See the postings here.
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Chaos That little link at the bottom of the list of writeups in a node, above the soft links and under the "printable version" link. This will display all the displayable soft links in a "cloud." Careful, with some writeups this can be big!
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A Year Ago Today remembered by wertperch. Wow....
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Customization: -
ekw Preferences Customize the appearance of your e2.
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E2 Color Toy Play with colors and see how they display.
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Notelet nodelet utilities One stop shopping for your nodelet needs! Thanks to TenMinJoe for the reminder.
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Mysterious and strange, or just fun: -
softlink drawer I have no idea what this is for.
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Everything I Ching Have your I-Ching told.
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Piercisms Generator and Fezisms Generator Humor in honor of some iconographic users.
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Teddisms Generator found by Swap. Um... colorful!
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oblique strategies garden found by eien_meru. It's explained in the writeup.
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word messer-upper Um, that's what it does.
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wine bottle sizes Exactly what it says. No, I don't know why it's there, it just is. Don't question the mystery too closely.
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Everything Quote Server
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noisy sunset Colorful, literally.
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about nobody You could call it poetry....
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picture of mud wrestling
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mud wrestling smoke break This one and the previous found by RACECAR. Self explanatory....
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Picture of Wakeboarding
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the problem with leftovers... I heh... there are more pics, but I don't want to take away the joy of discovery....
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Nate's Pseudo-Wisdoms, with thanks to gnarl for forwarding this one.
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E2 Sperm Counter found by rootbeer277
hunt05 says I got the softlink drawer to say "yclept wonders what this is" - :O