Today I’d like to experiment with some nice interfaces for tagging and showing tagged bookmarks. But it feels too clunky to log into the django admin then navigate back, so first I want to get Django authentication set up. I suspect that if this turns into something I want to share with others, I’ll eventually wind up with allauth, but that feels too heavy for now. And setting up Django’s built-in authentication isn’t hard.

In order to further iterate on Fischer, I’m going to need to be able to test with a reasonably large pile of bookmarks. That’s going to get tedious quickly if I can’t import and export them as I experiment. In the past, the shortest path to doing this has been using django-import-export and either a script or django admin integration. I’d prefer a script for this, so I’m also going to use django-extensions to get the runscript management command and easily run them from nanodjango.

In Part 1, I learned how to do views and routes in nanodjango, got some basic templates set up, and vendored Pico CSS to make those pages look a little nicer. Tagging is going to be an important part of making this all work the way I want, and the easiest way to solve that is with django-taggit. I’m tackling this next so I can learn whether adding a third-party app means I need to go ahead and expand my little nanodjango project into a full, multi-file project already.

I know there are a few new practices that I should adopt as I start new projects, but part of the purpose of this one is trying out nanodjango. So I’m keeping my other stuff the same, including pyenv, black, and poetry usage, for now in order to save my innovation tokens.

Lately, I find myself missing the dynamic start pages we used to set for our browsers in the late 1990s. The ones I liked eventually turned into search engines, got crapped up by ads, or just plain went away. All of the above, in many cases. For a while, I didn’t miss them, because feed readers and synchronized bookmarks kind of took their place, for the most part. But now I find myself wanting to go back to that, because feed readers and synchronized bookmarks don’t work the way I want them to anymore. So maybe it’s worth building something new that works just how I want.