Below are the key terms mentioned in the PixieBrix docs and their definitions
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- Admin Console: Portal for setting up team databases, deployments, integrations, and more. Accessed via app.pixiebrix.com.
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- Chrome Dev Tools: series of tabs that opens when choosing “Inspect” from the Context Menu, typically used for web developers to explore elements on a page and console messages, also used by PixieBrix developers since this is where you’ll access the Page Editor
- Context Menu: the menu that appears in Chrome when right-clicking on a webpage, this is a common place for triggering PixieBrix mods
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- Extension Console: portal for activating and deactivating mods, discovering new ones, making edits in the workshop, setting up personal integrations and databases, and accessing settings. Accessed via chrome url.
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- Inputs: criteria that you set when activating a mod. This could be default text, a Trello board Id, or anything else that is referenced inside the mod.
- Integrations: Tools that can be set up with PixieBrix to receive or send data, popular integrations include Trello, Automation Anywhere, GitHub, Zapier, Google Sheets, and many others.
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- Mod: a series of bricks that together perform a specific action, such as sending an email from a linked in page, or creating a card in Trello from highlight text
- Mod Listing: a page that explains what a mod does, prerequisites for running it, instructions for activating, and the steps to try it out. Accessed from the mod marketplace.
- Mod Marketplace: a directory of public mods that anyone can use or activated, sorted by tags such as popular tools, personas, use case, and more. Located at https://www.pixiebrix.com/marketplace/
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- 1-Click Wonders: Mods that do not require setting inputs or integrations and can be configured with one click
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- Page Editor: the graphical user interface for building and editing mods in PixieBrix. Accessed via Chrome Dev Tools.
- PixieBrix Chrome Browser Extension: The chrome extension platform that runs the Page Editor and PixieBrix mods