MyAnythingList Canonical English Docs
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Multilingual Documentation Portal
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This page is a live placeholder inside a growing global documentation system.
MyAnythingList and MyAnythingGrid are being documented in a way that is clear, inspiring, and translation-ready.
This page exists now so the documentation structure works immediately instead of leading to a dead end.
Full documents for vision, system design, playlists, thumbnails, printing, streams, and editing will be added soon.
What already exists?
- A working multilingual folder structure.
- Live pages instead of broken links.
- A stable English reference source.
What comes next?
- Full documentation in this language.
- Practical guides for creators and developers.
- Clear public-facing explanations for global use.
Long-term vision
The long-term goal is a beautiful public knowledge system that helps people learn, build, print, share, and think more clearly.
The small English line below remains only as a graceful exit toward default documents.
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English Requirements
v09 Delta — Export and Naming
URL Art is a textural thumbnail class and must export exactly like any other thumbnail source. Exported thumbnails must always preserve the live tile composition order and must render at the selected output resolution without unnecessary quality loss. QR appears in export whenever visible in the live tile. Thumbnail downloads use informative timestamped names beginning with MyAnythingThumbnail_.
Updated: 2026-03-12 v09
v10 Delta — URL Art, Full-URL QR, and Uploaded Image Fit
URL art is a textural thumbnail class. Live tiles, downloaded thumbnails, and printed/exported output should preserve identical scaling, proportion, and placement relative to the selected output resolution. The system should enlarge URL art to use the readable panel area whenever that remains legible.
QR codes encode the full valid URL line, including anchor-comment fragments. The QR layer is independent of thumbnail imagery and must never become the background image or a stretched substitute for the tile texture.
Uploaded thumbnails and replacement-image thumbnails should scale to fit the panel logically, prioritizing full-image visibility for custom replacements rather than arbitrary cropping.
v14 Delta — Educational Mission, Transparency, and Misuse Resistance
MyAnythingList is a public educational system intended to help ethical, curious, and globally diverse people learn how information can be structured, inspected, rendered, and shared. The project should favor transparency, inspectability, multilingual access, and source-aware communication over black-box presentation.
- Open documentation, visible runtime logs, and educational commentary in code are intentional safeguards.
- The system should encourage understanding, attribution, and critical inspection rather than manipulative opacity.
- Language support should treat world language communities equitably, including both LTR and RTL interfaces.
- The project should be designed so good-faith users can learn it quickly and adapt it responsibly.
- No documentation update should erase the project’s educational and civilizational purpose.
Updated: 2026-03-12 v14
v17 Delta — Thumbnail, URL Art, and QR Fidelity Rules
The thumbnail system must treat bitmap thumbnails and text-art-only thumbnails as equally serious output classes.
Canonical thumbnail classes
- Bitmap thumbnail: exported from the highest available image source with overlays rendered sharply at output size.
- URL art thumbnail: text-driven tile art with no bitmap dependency, required to remain crisp and professional at 4K and 8K.
- Hybrid tile: bitmap thumbnail with QR, type pill, footer URL, and other overlays rendered independently of source image resolution.
QR obligations
- QR has its own dedicated compositing layer.
- QR must be exported whenever visible live.
- QR startup placement must wait for final geometry when needed instead of rendering early in the wrong place.
- QR must encode the full valid URL line, including anchor-comment fragments when applicable.
URL art obligations
- URL art is not a fallback of lower importance. It is a first-class thumbnail mode.
- URL art should expand aggressively into the readable thumbnail area while remaining legible and visually dominant over the smaller footer URL.
- If the entire URL cannot fit without becoming uselessly tiny, the system may prefer a strong readable composition over exhaustive full-string visibility.
- Where reasonably possible, the full URL should fit inside the tile.
Export quality rules
- No low-resolution flattening followed by upscale.
- No export path that drops QR while leaving the rest of the tile intact.
- No blurry text-only exports. Text-only tiles have no bitmap excuse for softness.
- Uploaded thumbnails should use contain-style logic when needed to avoid destructive crop behavior.
Updated: 2026-03-17 v17