Re: [Zim-wiki] Document folder and document root - difference

2009-01-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/1/26 Jaap Karssenberg : > Zim notebooks are intended to be file manager friendly. > Then why are they in a format that no other program can parse? Sure, you could open it in a text editor and find your data, but my mother in law opens the file and sees gibberish. I just asked her! She doesn't

Re: [Zim-wiki] Document folder and document root - difference

2009-01-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/1/26 Jaap Karssenberg : > Dotan Cohen wrote: >> >> If xyz was called A and lmn was called B, then do not start calling >> anything else A or B. That will only lead to confusion when people say >> "I am using A" and you have to ask "the original A or the new A". >> Worse yet, you might not ask

Re: [Zim-wiki] Document folder and document root - difference

2009-01-26 Thread Jaap Karssenberg
Dotan Cohen wrote: Exactly, you as a power user can play with the dotfiles just as if they were not hidden. My mother in law, however, can't seem to keep herself from poking around (and fidling with, by accident she says) all the non-hidden folders in her home directory. If it's not meant to be m

Re: [Zim-wiki] Document folder and document root - difference

2009-01-26 Thread Jaap Karssenberg
Dotan Cohen wrote: If xyz was called A and lmn was called B, then do not start calling anything else A or B. That will only lead to confusion when people say "I am using A" and you have to ask "the original A or the new A". Worse yet, you might not ask and _assume_ the wrong one. I suggest these

Re: [Zim-wiki] Document folder and document root - difference

2009-01-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/1/26 Pablo Angulo : > Hello, Dotan: > I'd like to disagree, but not too much: > > Dotan Cohen wrote: >> ...what other application can read the wiki-style code anyway... > Well, I like about zim that it's just text files I can hack using very > simple string manipulation in python, and edit wit

Re: [Zim-wiki] Document folder and document root - difference

2009-01-26 Thread Pablo Angulo
Hello, Dotan: I'd like to disagree, but not too much: Dotan Cohen wrote: > ...what other application can read the wiki-style code anyway... Well, I like about zim that it's just text files I can hack using very simple string manipulation in python, and edit with any editor just in case. Another ex

Re: [Zim-wiki] Tagging - idea and what I'm missing

2009-01-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/1/26 Pablo Angulo : > I second that: it's an excellent idea I third it. In fact, I'd like to see content tagging too, not just note tagging. That is, a tag could be inserted into a specific place on a page. In wiki-code, it could be implemented as [[tag:foobar]] and I'm certain that a GUI el

Re: [Zim-wiki] Tagging - idea and what I'm missing

2009-01-26 Thread Pablo Angulo
I second that: it's an excellent idea Pablo Vlastimil Ott wrote: > > That's idea - tagging the content. The way the TODO feature goes, is > perfect and great. And very useful for me. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wi

Re: [Zim-wiki] Tagging - idea and what I'm missing

2009-01-26 Thread Vlastimil Ott
Dotan Cohen wrote: Are you suggesting that pages in Zim could have tags, or something else? What, specifically, would be tagged? Yes, pages, of course. I think, it's the same principle like TODO window (instead of a windows, it could be a panel or something more "handy"). I have one noteboo

Re: [Zim-wiki] Document folder and document root - difference

2009-01-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/1/20 Jaap Karssenberg : > I think for future versions what is now the document folder will be called > something like the attachment folder while the document root will be renamed > to document folder. > If xyz was called A and lmn was called B, then do not start calling anything else A or B.

Re: [Zim-wiki] Tagging - idea and what I'm missing

2009-01-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/1/17 Vlastimil Ott : > Hello guys, > > I think, we need just "a few lines of code" to enjoy tagging within zim. Could > you comment my ideas? > Are you suggesting that pages in Zim could have tags, or something else? What, specifically, would be tagged? -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.c