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[Emilis Dambauskas <emilis.d@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > But there is exactly my point, settings, profiles and caches go in
> > hidden directories, data does not. In my view settings are more or
> > less expandable - sure you do not want to loose them easily, but if
> > you do you can re-create them fairly easily. Data on the other hand is
> > much more valuable.
> >     
>
> Are your email messages data? Where does Evolution store them?
>
> Files that are meant to be opened from within a particular application
> should not be visible in the file manager. If Zim notebooks were
> single files as opposed to folders with many files inside, and these
> single files could be clicked on then opened with Zim, then I would
> understand the reasoning for keeping them visible. But as it stands,
> the user has no reason to poke around in the Zim folder.
>   
I agree with Jaap about data directory being not hidden.

One more reason, which partially answers Dotan's point:
- zim pages are plain text files, which can be manipulated by other 
programs or scripts.

See one unusual test case attached: a shell script that adds a list item 
to current days page. Usage:
$ ./my.log "Hi, this is a test"

--
Emilis Dambauskas

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#!/bin/sh

### CONSTANTS ###

NOTEBOOK_DIR='/home/emilis/zim'

### FUNCTIONS ###

# Creates an empty zim file for the date:
create_zim_file() {
    dir_name=`dirname $file_name`
    echo "Creating directory $dir_name"
    if ! test -d $dir_name; then
        mkdir -p $dir_name
    fi

    touch $file_name

    header="Content-Type: text/x-zim-wiki\nWiki-Format: zim 0.26\nCreation-Date: `date`\nModification-Date: `date`"
    header="$header\n\n====== `date +%F` ======\n\n"

    echo $header >> $file_name
}

### PROGRAM ###

file_name="$NOTEBOOK_DIR/Date/`date +%Y`/`date +%m`/`date +%d`.txt"
echo $file_name;

if ! test -f $file_name; then
    create_zim_file
fi

echo "* `date +%T` $@" >> $file_name