A draft of my 'user's story', in hopes it gives a glimpse of how I see the system playing out. Much is left out of this draft; I just intend it to give a flavor.
On Thursday, February 6, 2020 at 1:30:36 PM UTC-5, Thomas Passin wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 10:30:26 PM UTC-5, andyjim wrote: >> >> >> Thomas, tell me if this is an inappropriate suggestion, but I wonder if >> this thread has pretty much played out its level of pertinence and interest >> to the Leo community, since it's not directly about Leo and may be on a >> subject of limited interest here. Given your own zettelkasten-like program >> and your interest in knowledge and semantic processing, and your direct >> questions to me about my ideas (I'm working on it), would it be appropriate >> for us to continue the discussion by email? That would be much easier for >> me, but if not appropriate I'll continue here, though this thread waxes >> long now and I feel I don't function well in a forum venue. >> > > I've been wondering the same thing. Trouble is, if we use email, it's > just us, and we miss out on other people's thinking. We could set up a > whole new Google group, but I'd like to keep the discussion in the Leo > context if we can do so - would you agree? And it's clear that there is > some degree of interest, as we see from @Xavier's post. > > What I'm thinking is to open a new thread in the Leo group - and to keep > opening new threads when and as one gets too long to work with. Just now, > we're wrestling with what we really want to accomplish and how it ought to > work, and it would make sense to open a new thread on requirements and > concept of operation (this could include your narratives). How's this > sound to everyone? > > I've gone beyond the requirements I posted a few days ago, and tried to > come up with a note format that > > 1. Can be typed and read easily; > 2. Can be processed by software easily; > 3. Could be used in a paper Zettelkasten if one really had to do that; > 4. The system could export note files in this format without too much > difficulty; > 5. Contains most of the essential information, so that the software > could reconstruct the entire zettelkasten just from these notes if need be > (possibly with a small amount of information loss); > > I think I've gotten most of this. The main things I haven't worked out so > far are links to other notes that might be embodied right in the text of > the note (if we really want these). and similarly how links to other > non-text media would be captured in the zettel. There is no end of ways > these things could be done, and my interest is in coming up with something > that is especially easy to type and read. > > Why my emphasis on typing the zettels? Because the alternative is to use > some software system that tries to "help" you. Now we'll certainly want > something like that as an option, but having to use a number of select or > drop-down lists or whatnot all the time really interferes with one's flow. > Straight typing is better where possible. > > In my concept of operations, one would be able to type into a new zettel - > either in a Leo node or even in a separate file - and then the system would > hook it up based on the info you typed. Later, the system would help you > change, add to, or update the references; you could do that when you > weren't so involved with the thoughts you were typing. > -- 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/4c27b213-43da-4c64-a6c6-f3d51562bfeb%40googlegroups.com.
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