On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 07:15:17 -0800 (PST) Thomas Passin <tbp100...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 19, 2020 at 3:39:36 AM UTC-5, stevelitt wrote: > > > > > > If you're taking notes, and you want the absolute fastest input to > > an outline, VimOutliner's what you want. Several times I've taken > > contemporaneous, well outlined and well organized notes while > > attending meetings and lectures. I'm pretty sure it would be > > trivial to create a VimOutliner to Leo converter. You get the input > > speed of VimOutliner, and the power over your outline that Leo > > gives you. > > > > I use VimOutliner as a todo list organizer, but that's just because > > I'm not familiar enough with Leo to be efficient with it. Leo gives > > you text metadata superior to VimOutliner's, and Leo has clones so, > > on a shopping list, you can have the same item at Lowes and Home > > Depot, so if one doesn't have it the other does. And if you add a > > specification to the item, it adds it to both clones. Very nice! > > > > > > I appreciate the suggestion. and I've never encountered VimOutliner. > Please be aware that this thread is not about outliners and note > takers, but something very different. True. My response was to somebody who had mentioned something that was a note-taking machine, and then after mentioning the speed of VimOutliner, I said a little about it. > Sometimes I have called the > zettels - the "atoms" of the system - notes, but that's a little > misleading. They would be your thoughts on a matter after you have > taken your notes and read your references. They are decomposed into > small, well-focused bits that you can think about and refine over > time, and that you will link to other atoms. Over time, with the help > of a large group of these well-linked ideas, you become more creative > and more able to relate disparate ideas and thought that you didn't > remember or didn't realize were related. > > At least, that is what the inventor and users of the system say. And > they did it all with a paper system, no less. That's what we are > hoping for here. It's very different from taking notes or putting > them into an outline (though that would be one way of linking the > atoms). I've seen https://zettelkasten.de/ and https://zettels.info/en/int/default.asp, the latter of which requires me to sign up just to learn anything about it (no thanks). Also https://zettelkasten.de/posts/what-is-a-zettel/ , which looks like a pretty good brain-operation howto to me. Continuing on with https://zettelkasten.de/posts/what-is-a-zettel/ , would it be easy to create Leo nodes with: * Short title * Abstract * See-also list with Leo node links * Children with Leo node links * Keyword list * Pointer to the file and how to execute it I don't know how practical it would be to search an entire Leo outline, but if it's quick, I'd think the preceding fills the needs: * Short title is searchable, as are the words in it * Abstract is searchable, as are the words in it * See-also list implements idea to idea links. * Children implements hierarchy (drilldown) * Keyword list is searchable * One on-disk file to many of these Leo nodes: Select using Leo, view using the file's intended handler (inkscape for svg, Libreoffice for .odt, gvim or less for a text file (the handler would be on a node by node basis). I would think this gives you all the searchability you want, and still enables you to maintain a reasonably sized Leo file, and not lose very important file date information. SteveT Steve Litt February 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive -- 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/20200221181728.3c12186a%40mydesk.domain.cxm.
