diff --git a/pwiki/path.js b/pwiki/path.js
index bd96094..ba6603a 100755
--- a/pwiki/path.js
+++ b/pwiki/path.js
@@ -50,6 +50,13 @@ module = {
 	// 		XXX or can we?
 	SYSTEM_PATH: '/.system',
 
+	// XXX EXPERIMENTAL
+	encode: function(str){
+		return str
+			.replace(/[#:*%]/g, encodeURIComponent) },
+	decode: function(str){
+		return decodeURIComponent(str) },
+
 	/*/ XXX NORMCACHE...
 	__normalized_cache_threshold: 100,
 	__normalized_cache_size: 4096,
diff --git a/pwiki/store/base.js b/pwiki/store/base.js
index f9dd1a3..56e3343 100755
--- a/pwiki/store/base.js
+++ b/pwiki/store/base.js
@@ -140,6 +140,9 @@ module.BaseStore = {
 	// XXX revise naming...
 	next: undefined,
 
+	onUpdate: types.event.Event('update'),
+	onDelete: types.event.Event('delete'),
+
 	// NOTE: .data is not part of the spec and can be implementation-specific,
 	// 		only .__<name>__(..) use it internally... (XXX check this)
 	__data: undefined,
@@ -542,6 +545,7 @@ module.BaseStore = {
 		await this.__update__(path, data, mode)
 		// XXX CACHED
 		this.__cache_add(path)
+		this.onUpdate(path)
 		return this },
 	__delete__: async function(path){
 		delete this.data[path] },
@@ -554,7 +558,8 @@ module.BaseStore = {
 		if(path){
 			await this.__delete__(path)
 			// XXX CACHED
-			this.__cache_remove(path) }
+			this.__cache_remove(path) 
+			this.onDelete(path) }
 		return this },
 
 	// XXX NEXT might be a good idea to have an API to move pages from 
diff --git a/pwiki2.js b/pwiki2.js
index eedac5f..453683d 100755
--- a/pwiki2.js
+++ b/pwiki2.js
@@ -6,10 +6,15 @@
 * 		- fs store/export in browser or a simple way to export/import...
 *
 *
+* XXX need page names to contain odd characters when created by user, for
+* 		example: note titles...
+* 		...and need this to work through all the i/o...
+* 		....this might be an argument towards the .title attr, at least 
+* 		for notes...
 * XXX need basic system events:
-* 			<page>.onUpdate(path, data?)
-* 			<page>.onUreate(path, data?)
-* 			<page>.onDelete(path)
+* 			<store>.onUpdate(path, data?)
+* 			<store>.onCreate(path, data?)
+* 			<store>.onDelete(path)
 * 		..stores should also be able to trigger these when external 
 * 		updates are detected...
 * XXX CACHE strategy and architecture