On Sunday, February 16, 2020 at 11:08:54 PM UTC-5, Thomas Passin wrote: > > > Could you send me an example file? It you typed in a date, you probably > did it in a more or less standard way, and maybe we can automate getting it > out without you having to handle each and every file. > BTW, how many of these files are you talking about? Roughly speaking, of > course. > There are 20+ of the yearly Word files, but I'll be looking at material in other Word files as well; don't know how many. Much of my writings are an undifferentiated mix of personal and non-personal stuff, so because of the personal stuff I cannot offer a sample. But I will not be extracting *all* of the material in these files to zettels. I assume you were thinking of using the dates as delineators. I am confident that would not work for at least a couple of reasons: I wrote on multiple topics each day, so sooner or later it will have to be subdivided deeper than just the date level, and also, since I don't want all of the material to go into the zettelkasten, the parser will need to skip over a lot of material. It seems to me that I'll need to insert headings, tags, keywords, perhaps what I've called 'pointers' (a great idea in my opinion, quite a creativity booster), and any other devices (URLs?) we come up with so zettels do all the magic that we want them to do.
I want to accomplish as much of that as possible as I prep the files for the parser so I don't still have another mammoth task of working through all the zettels *again *to populate them with tags, headings, etc *after* bringing them into the system. Am I correct that basically what this requires is a pre-designed zettel template with markdown for all these sub-elements, so that I go into these files, designate each zettel, format it according to the template and insert markdown defining tags, headings, etc, i.e. everything that makes up a zettel, so all the parser has to do is pick it up and plunk it into a zettel and it is now a functional zettel with all its accoutrements, ready to take its place as a complete and fully functioning member of the community? Or is there more to it than that? Upshot of the above is that I really don't see any alternative to working through every file individually, identifying the items I want, deciding upon tags, keywords, headings, etc and inserting everything needed. Is this how you are conceiving it or am I out in left field? I did not write with a zettelkasten-like plan in mind for 'someday', so the material is a mess. -- 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/655cb9ed-d654-4d4a-8e99-2058d56c089a%40googlegroups.com.
