TL;DR if you know any quick tips for using Pd, submit them at https://github.com/pd-externals/tipoftheday-plugin/issues/new/choose
long version:
as you all know, Pd comes with a built-in documentation, that illustrates how to use various objects and stuff (and alex has done a fantastic job in revising these patches in the last months).
for a deeper understanding of Pd, there's the HTML manual (which looks nice, after lucarda added some CSS).
however, i think that there are a couple of things that need documentation which cannot really be covered by either help patches nor manuals. e.g. "intelligent patching" (where i've spent a bit of time to get it working) or other workflow tricks do not fit well in either category: if they are explained in some help-patches then only people who actively walk through those patches will ever see them (and i believe most people just open the help-patch of a given object they are interested; but what would you open for a non-object that you don't even know about). similarly, i have a feeling that the manual is not the best place for this either (first, the manual deals with the "larger picture" rather than interface tricks; second, the manual is more of an off-line resource (that you may read when not sitting in front of a running instance of Pd).
just recently i mentioned the "triggerize" functionality to someone, and they never ever heard of it!
to fix this, i've created a small GUI-plugin to display a "tip of the day" whenever Pd is started.
i think this (Pd's startup phase) is the right time to learn something new (in tiny bits) - after all, other applications (like my trusted MS VisualStudio 6) did the same).
the tips are super-simple: just a short text, with an optional URL for more information and support for displaying (animated) GIFs (patching is oft explained better by showing).
the GUI-plugin is available on https://github.com/pd-externals/tipoftheday-plugin/
but there's no release (and thus no deken package) yet.
There's also an experimental webinterface where you can browse the existing tips at https://pd.iem.sh/tipoftheday-plugin/
so far so good. The only drawback right now is, that there are only a very few tips available yet (a total of *4*, mainly for testing).
so before this is going to be released to the public, I'd like to collect a few (hundred) more tips
this is where you come into play: if you know any quick tips, patching tricks or hacks, please submit them in the issue-tracker at https://github.com/pd-externals/tipoftheday-plugin/issues/new/choose (the "Tip of the Day" issue-type will give you a form that you should fill in; this should keep the entry barrier to creating new tips low).
thanks for helping out.
gmasdr IOhannes