Spyral

Spyral Account

• Default uses GitHub account for identification and storage.
• Does it make sense to allow Google Docs to be used instead, like with Colab?
• Local install could use local git instead, specified by a config parameter.

User Stories / Use Cases

Anonymous experimentation

• User creates a new notebook.
• Loads data and gets results.
• No login information should be required.
• Anonymous saving?

Modifying another user's notebook

• User loads a previously created notebook.
• Modifies notebook and gets new results.
• Saves modified notebook to their (GitHub) account.
• If user has valid permissions, could optionally save to original creator's account.
  • Also see GitHub teams/collaborators

Sharing notebook

• User wants to share a notebook with another person/user.
• Saved notebooks have a persistent URL.

Collaborating on a notebook

• Potential for conflicts if committing to same GitHub repo.
• Some sort of merge / conflict resolution system in Spyral? Or just do that through GitHub?

Local install

• User wants to run a locally hosted version of Spyral.

Offline usage

• User either has local install or has hosted version loaded in their browser.
• Is not online but wants to be able to work on a notebook.
• localStorage can be used for temporary notebook storage.
• Should results that require external sources be cached?