Re: Leo for organizing notes?

2020-01-31 Thread Edward K. Ream
> Here's a writeup by someone who's doing it in the SublimeText editor. It > actually sounds pretty good - > > http://www.dansheffler.com/blog/2015-05-11-my-zettelkasten-in-sublime/ > Thanks for the link. I've bookmarked it. I'm going to pause this project for now. There are too many bugs and

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

2020-01-31 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Friday, January 31, 2020 at 3:58:48 AM UTC-6, vitalije wrote: > > > > On Friday, January 31, 2020 at 1:47:45 AM UTC+1, Thomas Passin wrote: > > >> >> I would be interested in adding several capabilities if they turn out to >> be feasible: >> >> 1. Full text search of the notes by a search

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

2020-01-31 Thread vitalije
On Friday, January 31, 2020 at 1:47:45 AM UTC+1, Thomas Passin wrote: > > I would be interested in adding several capabilities if they turn out to > be feasible: > > 1. Full text search of the notes by a search engine. > 2. Special processing based on certain semantic features in the notes,

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

2020-01-31 Thread vitalije
There is one program that I immediately thought of after reading a few pages about Zettelkasten: fossil and its wiki feature. It is a single executable (a rather small one ~ 2-3Mb), that can work on any platform. It supports tagging, timeline view. One can see the

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

2020-01-30 Thread Thomas Passin
On Thursday, January 30, 2020 at 7:23:28 PM UTC-5, andyjim wrote: > > Definitely, Thomas, and thanks so much for your interest. What I recommend > as a starting point is to get one or more Zettelkasten programs yourself to > familiarize yourself with the concepts and also the sort of GUI that

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

2020-01-30 Thread andyjim
Definitely, Thomas, and thanks so much for your interest. What I recommend as a starting point is to get one or more Zettelkasten programs yourself to familiarize yourself with the concepts and also the sort of GUI that is generally used. https://zettelkasten.de/ is a general site on

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

2020-01-30 Thread andyjim
Thanks so much Edward for checking in here. The page that you linked to here concerns one minor feature, and doesn't offer a picture of what Zettelkasten is, though there's quite a bit on that website. Um, I'm no expert on Zettelkasten, and certainly not on Leo, but I still believe Leo is

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

2020-01-30 Thread Thomas Passin
On Thursday, January 30, 2020 at 7:23:11 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > ... > This page > > > lists lists principles of Zettlekasten. The "unique home" principle

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

2020-01-30 Thread Thomas Passin
On Thursday, January 30, 2020 at 7:23:11 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 10:35 PM Thomas Passin > wrote: > > I put a lot of time some years ago looking into how to get the most out of >> my browser bookmarks, and I arrived at some of the same principles as I now >>

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

2020-01-30 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 10:35 PM Thomas Passin wrote: I put a lot of time some years ago looking into how to get the most out of > my browser bookmarks, and I arrived at some of the same principles as I now > read about for a Zettelkaste. And I tackled some of the things that seem > to be

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

2020-01-30 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 9:46 PM andyjim wrote: I want to put in a plug here for someone to undertake a robust Zettelkasten > plugin for Leo. > I did a google search on Zettelkasten. The first hit on the search suggests auto-completing links that might not exist yet.

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

2020-01-29 Thread Thomas Passin
On Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at 10:45:58 PM UTC-5, andyjim wrote: > > Many thanks to all. I've only just now got back to this thread and > gratified to see tips have kept coming in. It will take me awhile to check > all these out but it looks good indeed. > > I also want to put in a plug

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

2020-01-29 Thread andyjim
Many thanks to all. I've only just now got back to this thread and gratified to see tips have kept coming in. It will take me awhile to check all these out but it looks good indeed. I want to put in a plug here for someone to undertake a robust Zettelkasten plugin for Leo. I think

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

2020-01-27 Thread Matt Wilkie
> > Chapters are indeed useful and are generally speaking a more organized > type of hoisting. They're not often discussed so I would also encourage > checking them out as a means of organization. > Until today I never understood what Chapters were and have just deleted them from my docs. A

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

2020-01-27 Thread john lunzer
Chapters are indeed useful and are generally speaking a more organized type of hoisting. They're not often discussed so I would also encourage checking them out as a means of organization. On Saturday, January 25, 2020 at 11:50:23 PM UTC-5, Thomas Passin wrote: > > > > On Saturday, January 18,

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

2020-01-26 Thread Thomas Passin
On Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 5:18:17 PM UTC-5, Matt Wilkie wrote: > > > [later] After reading http://leoeditor.com/slides/plugins.html#unl-py I > see there is also @url for use in headlines. It's smart enough to open a > specific node, not just the file > > @url >

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

2020-01-25 Thread Thomas Passin
On Saturday, January 18, 2020 at 8:45:08 PM UTC-5, Chris George wrote: > > > Using clones you can create whatever organizational scheme you like. Add > in a couple of plugins, like bookmarks, tags, and backlinks, and that > ability explodes. > > One Leo feature for organization that I use a

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

2020-01-23 Thread Matt Wilkie
> > I have one specific question: Can I have a Leo file appear as a > headline in another Leo file, so I can hotkey the headline and have the > separate file appear? If so, can I assume I can get infinite > "drilldown?" It would be great to have a "master" Leo file from which I > can get to

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

2020-01-23 Thread Chris George
Chris George wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 3:36 PM andyjim wrote: > > > > My intended usage for Leo is organizing notes & ideas. I'm raising > > > my hand here because perhaps Leo's outlining/organizing > > > capabilities may be what I need. I'

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

2020-01-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:04:39 -0800 (PST) Israel Hands wrote: > Hi Andy, > > File Menu / Read/Write Files / Read-file-into-node will suck in the > file you point it at. Leo won't understand a word file so start with > your text files. What if he wants the original file to be separate, and just

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

2020-01-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 18 Jan 2020 17:44:51 -0800 Chris George wrote: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 3:36 PM andyjim wrote: > > My intended usage for Leo is organizing notes & ideas. I'm raising > > my hand here because perhaps Leo's outlining/organizing > > capabilities may be what I ne

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

2020-01-21 Thread Matt Wilkie
January 18, 2020 at 8:45:08 PM UTC-5, Chris George wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 3:36 PM andyjim wrote: >>> >>>> Uh, complete newbie here, and I feel like I'm walking into a high end >>>> programmers convention

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

2020-01-21 Thread Israel Hands
rgarten help. Everything in this forum is Greek to me. I am NOT a > programmer. Repeat: I am not a programmer. > > My intended usage for Leo is organizing notes & ideas. I'm raising my hand > here because perhaps Leo's outlining/organizing capabilities may be what I > need. I'

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

2020-01-20 Thread andyjim
;>> >>> On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 3:36 PM andyjim wrote: >>> >>>> Uh, complete newbie here, and I feel like I'm walking into a high end >>>> programmers convention here and raising my hand red-faced to ask for a bit >>>> of kindergarten h

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

2020-01-19 Thread Chris George
;>> of kindergarten help. Everything in this forum is Greek to me. I am NOT a >>> programmer. Repeat: I am not a programmer. >>> >>> Welcome, Andy. I am not a programmer either, but I have been using Leo >> for a bit over a decade. >> >> >>

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

2020-01-19 Thread andyjim
epeat: I am not a programmer. >> >> Welcome, Andy. I am not a programmer either, but I have been using Leo > for a bit over a decade. > > >> My intended usage for Leo is organizing notes & ideas. I'm raising my >> hand here because perhaps Leo's outlining/organizing

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

2020-01-19 Thread andyjim
Thank you Lewis. Unfortunately I do not know how to open this file in Leo. Maybe some day I'll figure it out. Somehow I fail to find instructions how to do the simple things: Open a file. Enable and use a plugin, or even a directive. I've tried some things but haven't got off the ground.

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

2020-01-19 Thread lewis
Hello Andy, Re: My project, which will undoubtedly take a couple of years, is to class and organize all notes into a "thoughtbase" I have attached a simple small file which demonstrates the power of Leo clones. It is a list which uses clones to organise and classify items. One way I use

Re: Leo for organizing notes?

2020-01-18 Thread Chris George
r. Repeat: I am not a programmer. > > Welcome, Andy. I am not a programmer either, but I have been using Leo for a bit over a decade. > My intended usage for Leo is organizing notes & ideas. I'm raising my hand > here because perhaps Leo's outlining/organizing capabilities may

Leo for organizing notes?

2020-01-18 Thread andyjim
is organizing notes & ideas. I'm raising my hand here because perhaps Leo's outlining/organizing capabilities may be what I need. I'm hoping folks here can tell me if I'm even knocking on the right door by looking at Leo. But it looks like Leo's flexibility in outlining may be unsurpassed and

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