Bingo! That did it. Thanks for the nbie-oriented instruction steps
that assumed no prior knowledge. Sometimes that's what it takes. The only
part that was unclear me (just for future reference) was 'its own
directory'. Huh? What directory is its own? So I made a leap of faith,
stuck
Hi Andy,
Installing Anaconda provides a python environment. Leo is a python program,
so you have made a good start.
Unzip the Leo archive into its own directory.
Open the terminal (command line) and change to the directory you put Leo in.
Then type the following to start Leo with the defaults,
Hmm, I see an active discussion on Leo installation initiated by EKR on
11/27/17, and I see you in that discussion. Last post there is 12/15 but I
assume work proceeds behind the scenes. Also noticed mention of Leo 5.7,
which may include better installation methods/instructions? Any estimate
Thanks Geoff. I'm afraid my rank ignorance is still hampering me here.
I've installed Anaconda, though I have no idea what it's for or what to do
with it other than have it. I've downloaded Leo 5.6 from SourceForge but
not sure what to do next. Unzip it? Where? What else do I need to do
Hi Andy,
Welcome to the Leo community. I hope you'll find this community and its
technology pretty inspiring. You will see a lot of technical and pretty
detailed discussions here. Most of them will go over your head as a
non-programmer (at least that was my case), but interesting topics and
Hi Andy,
For me at least, all it took was installing the Anaconda distribution of
python. This includes all the tools you need (pyqt for example) so that
there's no need to get into Homebrew.
A command in a Terminal window, in the directory where you want your .leo
file to live, something
Hi Andy,
I am a writer who fled Windows seventeen years ago, but I ended up on
Linux. I have been using Leo since 2007.
While I can't really help much with installing on a Mac, I can tell you
that Leo will be suitable for your task. I have learned to use it for
everything, to the point that
I want an IDE/organizer for thoughts, ideas, journaling, writing. I have
hundreds of past files of journals/thoughts to parse and organize plus my
ongoing thinking/journaling addiction. Only thing I know of that may be
close is Zettelkasten, but I haven’t dug into that yet, and don’t know
