Re: Leo for organizing notes? [Comments Item 9]

On Friday, February 14, 2020 at 12:27:31 PM UTC-5, andyjim wrote: > > > And Thomas, perhaps I need to read your papers on semantic processing > (haven't done so yet), as it seems that's more or less what the > zettelkasten model offers (maybe the Leo model, in fact), and it appears > you are b

Re: Leo for organizing notes? [Comments Item 9]

On Friday, February 14, 2020 at 12:27:31 PM UTC-5, andyjim wrote: > > One thing I wish I understood better is the acyclic graph model, how that > plays out in Leo and what it accomplishes for us in organization/linking. > It's not too hard to grasp the basics, @andyjim. A graph is a set of nod

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

On Monday, February 3, 2020 at 9:28:32 PM UTC-5, Thomas Passin wrote: > > > 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,

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

> > > On Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 11:55:38 AM UTC-5, stevelitt wrote: > > > > The thread you started long ago moved away from the preceding > > > desire. Your preceding desire should be very easy to accomplish > > > using the same method VimOutliner accomplished it: Use executable > > >

Re: Leo for organizing notes? [Comments Item 9]

Well, this gives me a lot to think about. I've been more or less assuming the idea of one zettel/one node as being a limiting one, but perhaps it's the opposite, given all the capabilities of a node, hardly any of which I am familiar with. And that's what I need to do: dig in and get familiar

flash a message on autosave? asynchronous autosave?

I wonder if the user should be told when his keypresses are not updating the screen because the autosave function is kicking in. I find it a bit unsettling when i'm typing and I dont see anything on the screen and then I realize that the autosave is working. Also, autosave is not a seamless bac

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

Ha! After seeing references to uAs over and over, I finally learn what they are. On Friday, February 14, 2020 at 7:42:09 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 6:28 PM Thomas Passin > wrote: > > And - maybe this is weird - would there be any problem adding properties >> to

Re: Leo for organizing notes? [Comments Item 9]

On Friday, February 14, 2020 at 7:50:56 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 7:08 PM Thomas Passin > wrote: > > > Using Leo, and making each note be a separate node, we can get just > that kind of ID for free. > > Not "kinda" for free. It's *completely *free for users.

Re: Leo 6.2 b1 coming Friday, February 21.

On Wednesday, February 12, 2020 at 6:40:26 AM UTC-6, Edward K. Ream wrote: Assuming normal progress on remaining issues. > I'm going to back off from this schedule. Yesterday I realized there was important work remaining on Leo's beautify command. Now is the time to do that work, however long i

fstrings branch: status report

The fstrings branch contains Leo's new fstringify and beautify commands. Rev 4c06999 is a major milestone. It marks the end of another phase of testing. This work includes fixing a significant bug in fstringify. All of Leo's core files have been fstringified and beautified without incident. The

Re: It *is* possible to use black on Leo's external files

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 8:00 AM Edward K. Ream wrote: Rev f9a83c in the fstrings branch makes it possible to use black on files > containing Leo sentinels. > > Previously, I had thought this would be impossible/undesirably, because > black ensures at least one blank at the start of each comment l

Re: Leo for organizing notes? [Comments Item 9]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 7:08 PM Thomas Passin wrote: > Using Leo, and making each note be a separate node, we can get just that kind of ID for free. Not "kinda" for free. It's *completely *free for users. It's one of Leo's essential features. This didn't *happen* for free behind the scenes :-)

Re: Leo for organizing notes? [Comments Item 9]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 9:58 PM andyjim wrote: > A node for each zettel? Thousands of them? > Yes. This is perfectly possible. LeoPyRef.leo contains thousands of nodes, each containing source code. Look, I can't stress this enough. Leo is the ultimate filing cabinet. "Boxes" can contain other b

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 6:28 PM Thomas Passin wrote: And - maybe this is weird - would there be any problem adding properties to > a node? > Not weird at all. Custom properties are called uA's (user attributes). See this page