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[Adam Porter <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's a great post!  Thanks for your input.  It's good to know others
have similar visions for Zim!

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:12, HansBKK <hansbkk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sorry if this is mostly OT, but I'm excited by Zim's possibilities and
> would like to introduce myself to the list with a bit of context as to
> what's brought me here.
>
> I have used Evernote as my "brain extension" for many years now, to the
> point where I've got over 50,000 "nodes" in dozens of ENB files, mostly
> snippets and web-page extracts/annotated bookmarks, but some book-length
> full-fledged structured references.
>
> I've stuck with v2.2 since I don't like my private data out in the
> cloud, and the v3 upgrade got rid of truly hierarchical organization of
> tags, including the ability for a given tag to have multiple locations
> in the tree (directed acyclic graphs for those au fait on such things).
>
> Over the past year, I've tried to cut down on adding new content to EN,
> keeping more and more in plaintext files with a folder hierarchy
> providing the "main" organisational categorisation, coupled with full-
> text search.
>
> I've been using txt2tags syntax, but recently have considered moving
> over to pandoc's extended markdown or reST/Sphinx.
>
> The main tools I've been looking at are the Python-based outliner/coding
> editor Leo, and DokuWiki. The former uses reSt, the latter as you know
> is proprietary, but both work fine (as I assume Zim would) using
> whatever markup syntax you like as long as you're happy working with
> plain-text, only getting pretty formatting with the final converted
> output in the target formats output by your toolchain.
>
> I **highly** recommend the Zim developers consider Evernote's (old-
> school version) for UI ideas as well as the tagging organization.
>
> I would really love to see Zim get the ability to show multiple "pages"
> as a result of clicking on a tag, and ideally the ability to do and/or
> filtering as well.
>
> Evernote has the ability to only show the first X lines of each document
> to handle the issue of longer "pages" hogging the visual bandwidth of
> the data stream, but in practice I rarely used it, a few PgDn's or
> scrollbar clicks usually handles it, and once the "container app" has
> these abilities, one usually keeps content in much smaller "chunks" -
> finer granularity supporting more accurate tagging.
>
> I am however intrigued by the idea of "inline tagging" where terms apply
> to individual paragraphs (divs?) rather than only to entire nodes
> ("pages").
>
> Just as with DokuWiki, the fact that Zim's markup is not supported by
> third-party conversion tools to more mainstream documentation formats is
> a major roadblock for me - if I were rich I'd sponsor bounties - if I
> were really rich I'd learn to program 8-)
>
> Anyway, sorry it took you so long just to get my 2¢, I'll try to be more
> respectful of list bandwidth in future. . .
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