I use Leo strictly for writing, restructured text to .odt using docutils. I
also use it as my data bank for quotes, snippets of interesting info,
bookmarks, recipes, etc. It makes it easy to keep information organized and
simple to find again when I need it.
Chris
On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 12:38 PM, Largo84 <larg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds a lot like how I use Leo. I'm not a programmer either (unless you
> count minimal scripting in LaTex). I write extensively in Leo (LaTex, HTML
> and markdown mostly). I recently tried Scrivener, but quickly came back to
> Leo after seeing that Pandoc will be easy enough for me to use. Don't
> hesitate to ask, it's a great group and usually somebody can and will help.
>
> If you haven't yet, try out the linking capabilities.
>
> Rob.........
>
>
> On Friday, May 12, 2017 at 3:12:46 PM UTC-4, Lang Hurst wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the response. Nothing special about vimwiki, it's just a wiki
>> I use for organization and writing. Substitute any wiki for the use. More
>> interested in the linking and moving back and forth. I'm feeling like I
>> just have to change my thinking style and this should be pretty awesome.
>> Nothing like changing up workflow 1/2 way through a Masters, but it seems
>> to be the way that I always work. Anyway, thanks again.
>>
>> -Lang
>>
>> On Friday, May 12, 2017 at 12:00:26 PM UTC-7, Terry Brown wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, 12 May 2017 11:11:03 -0700 (PDT)
>>> Lang Hurst <gra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hello. I just spent a few days looking at Leo after seeing a post of
>>> > Mr. Reams on the npyscreen group. Leo looks pretty damn cool. The
>>> > problem is I don't do much coding anymore. I mostly just use vimwiki
>>> > to manage my website, but mostly for organizing my notes and writing
>>> > papers. I've been writing the papers in LaTex while in vimwiki and
>>> > then compiling it from there. Seems like I could use Leo to do most
>>> > of this. Before I spend more time though, am I using this tool in a
>>> > way that doesn't make sense? Is there anyone who does this? I can see
>>> > how awesome Leo could be for straight up writing, but just wondering
>>> > how or if people utilize it outside of that or just python
>>> > programming.
>>>
>>> I think a lot of people use Leo for non-coding / writing type
>>> purposes. I've been writing papers via Leo -> markdown -> pandoc,
>>> which uses LaTeX for PDF output.
>>>
>>> Not familiar with vimwiki so not sure how much automation that's
>>> bringing to the LaTeX writing process. Leo's abbreviations can be
>>> helpful, e.g. expanding something like fig;; to
>>>
>>> \begin{figure}<rest of useful template>\end{figure}
>>>
>>> Not aware of any particular pre-view apparatus, but it's very easy to
>>> write button scripts that generate a doc. being viewed in PDF preview
>>> or whatever.
>>>
>>> Cheers -Terry
>>>
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