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["John R. Marks, IV" <jrm4@xxxxxxxx>]

Hope everybody's as safe as possible out there:

1. Just some more praise for Jaap and everyone who works on this 
fantastic tool.  I don't know how many of y'all keep up with the hot 
technologies of the day (e.g. through Hacker News) -- but (along with 
org-mode which I've tried a few times and I just keep coming back to 
zim) there are a crop of "new" tools and concepts like "roam" and 
"zettlekasten" that make me chuckle, because we've had 99% of what these 
things offer forever. Don't know how I feel about all these silly 
Silicon Valley bros making money off these ideas, but hey, live and let 
live? eh. Either way....

2. My little question, speaking of.  So, I do a lot of online-teaching 
and one thing that has always been a thing is dealing with slides -- and 
what I'm realizing, after many years, is that the biggest reason I don't 
enjoy using them is because I can't easily edit them on the fly.  
Thinking a bit further -- I believe I could absolutely use Zim + 
Distraction Free Mode to display/broadcast "slides" as part of a screen 
share that I could edit right then and there, by making each "slide" a 
section divided by a header, and then using the TOC to "navigate" -- IF, 
and this is the big if -- if I could get zim working so that, when you 
click on the section title/anchor, it pops it to the TOP of the page, 
not the middle, as it appears to now.  A not terrible hack is lots of 
whitespace, I suppose -- any thoughts on this idea, specific or general?