o1bigtenor via Dng said on Sun, 15 Aug 2021 09:43:46 -0500 >Greetings > >I'm finding myself occasionally drowning in information resulting in me >trying to improve the connection between what I'm working on AND the >information that I'm collecting. > >An example (followed by some questions). > >I'm into gardening/raising my own food (simplified for here!!). > >Create a directory 'gardening' . > >Inside 'gardening' notes for a particular year (each year in its own >directory). >Dig some digging and hard links to directories are a no no (!!!!!!!!!) >- - like forbidden. > >I could see hard links being useful for what I want where soft links >are going to break (have had the joy of breaking some myself and >causing myself all kinds of joy in the process). > >Any ideas out there on how to find such an ecosystem? > >(I don't think a RDMS is what I want because then how does one store >directories inside the topic - - - its almost like a RDMS that has a >system inside it might do - - - argh - - - I think I'm getting more >confused rather than less in trying to set up something - - - argh!!)
Check out VimOutliner. VimOutliner does this quite easily. Instead of whole redundant directories, you'll have redundant lines in a tab indented outline. Look for VimOutliner 3.4 or 3.5. VimOutliner went bad after 3.5. I don't know what a RDMS is, and if it's a DBMS then forget this suggestion, but you could also use Sqlite to store multiple indexes to multiple directories. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng