Thanks much Matt and Thomas. I have many pages of notes on this, and as I looked at some notes from 2-3 years ago most of them lack clarity, though some are better than others. One approach I thought I might take is to 'narrate' a work session with my envisioned program. Describe what I am wanting to do, how search and navigation plays out, what does a 'standard zettle' do and not do, etc. The steps I take and how the software responds, what I see happening. That might bring me about as close as I can get without a working software. Might be better than just trying to list desirable features, which I have done a lot of. Some of my past notes are so vague that I hardly understand now what I was trying to say! But I think my ideas have slowly gotten clearer in the past couple of years, but I have yet to spell it out clearly in nouns and verbs. iow I think it's clearer in my mind, but not yet in text. I'll see what I can do but it's going to take some time. What should I do once I get something written? Post it in this same thread (which is getting long)? I'll just do it in a plain text file, since I don't know any markdown/up anyway. Thomas, sorry for my ignorance but what do I need to do to view your HTML file rendered? I can dig out the text as is, but rendering it would make it a lot easier. I'm not HTML literate.
Thanks for your gentle and patient assistance. Andy On Monday, February 3, 2020 at 9:28:32 PM UTC-5, Thomas Passin wrote: > > > > On Monday, February 3, 2020 at 6:06:33 PM UTC-5, andyjim wrote: >> >> >> Sure wish I were a programmer. Sometimes I've thought maybe I should >> dive into programming just to gain the skills to build this myself, but I >> think that's likely way too ambitious, especially at my age. >> But if/when someone here wants to/has time to give it a look, I would >> love to have the opportunity to submit a more lengthy 'essay' outlining in >> some detail what I've evolved in my imagination over a few years of >> thinking about this. Naming a few features doesn't get the idea across. I >> haven't written it up in one piece as yet. I need to scramble through all >> my past notes about it; might take 3-5 pages. Heck, maybe it's not as good >> a set of ideas as I think, but what I envision sure appeals to me for what >> I do with writing. Wish I'd had it 20 years ago. >> > > I have written an initial set of user requirements (attached), and I would > appreciate your thoughts on them. These are very high level requirements, > and they don't include any actual user interface ideas. Instead, they are > things that I think any UI would have to honor. I have tried to abstract > from written work on paper zettelkasten systems. I also tried out several > (free) zettel-programs for Windows, none of which worked well at all for me. > > One key point for me is a need to prevent lock-in to this - or any - > particular system by either keeping the zettelkasten in the form of text > note files, or having the ability to export a complete set of such files. > In the worst case, I picture to myself, one could print out the text notes > and actually use them as is in a physical zettelkasten. I think this is so > important that I made it the first requirement. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/d960f643-747c-471d-9609-0f8fad93cc48%40googlegroups.com.
