Hi, Steve Litt writes:
> 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. For the Emacs-inclined, there are several outliner-type modes available of which I personally use [Org mode][1]. This actually supports quite a bit more than just outlining. > [...] [1]: https://orgmode.org/ Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng