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

I CANT BELIEVE I JUST THOUGHT OF THIS.

So, y'all, I teach in the MSIT at Florida State University, and this 
semester is my Advanced Web Applications class.  Broadly, it ends up 
being a VERY language agnostic class because our student pool is varied 
in terms of skill (FSU is weird, our Computer Science dept is completely 
separate from our Information/IT School, and I'm in the latter).  I 
personally have a very wide-but-SHALLOW knowledge about languages and 
frameworks (right now we still default to PHP + a little mostly vanilla 
JS because that's what I know how to do, despite all the frameworky 
stuff out there)

Either way, though, I'd LOVE to point some of my students in the 
direction of some sort of web and/or mobile interface to Zim. It really 
does seem like it shouldn't be that hard especially if you consider the 
possibility of not really interacting with Zim-native's internal 
database, just do "the files" and perhaps spin up a separate one if 
needed. That, for me, has always been the beauty of Zim - the flat 
files. The db isn't "primary" and can be reloaded/destroyed whatever. I 
occasionally have cheated on Zim with org-mode. naughty-naughty, and 
that factor -- the ability to create multiple types of interfaces 
(orgzly, organice, etc etc) because of the simplicity of the filesystem.

Anyway, this is part cheerleading and part volunteer from someone who'd 
love to see more of this.

John
jrm4.com


On 5/13/20 9:34 AM, Gergely K. wrote:
> Slightly off but my advice is not to go with Django. It was a clever 
> framework (does things ahead of time, like orm) and has some unique 
> features, but it's components are not standard and it is a bit 
> glued-together. Rather go with standard libraries (which you can use 
> in any (non-web) projects)!
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 3:00 PM Shivam Sharma <shivam.src@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:shivam.src@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Wow. That was quick. I will test your patch.
>
>     And the idea for building a full-fledged web application around
>     Zim is great. It should be started as a separate project, however.
>     Zim community may not welcome the idea integrated into Zim since
>     Zim has been very robust by being lean (and not being too many
>     things at once).
>
>     If you do start work on the project, I'd be willing to help. I
>     have some experience with Flask but not much with Django.
>
>     On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 16:26, Helder Guerreiro
>     <helder@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:helder@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>         On 08/05/20 16:13, Helder Guerreiro wrote:
>         > Is it possible to add a search box to the internal Zim server?
>
>         Since it seems there is no easy way to add search to the
>         server I made
>         the patch attached (against master). There's an example search
>         box in
>         the "Default_with_index" template.
>
>         But this got me thinking, now I'm looking for other features,
>         tag list,
>         task list, maybe even marking tasks directly from the server
>         or editing
>         pages... This seems to be a little too much for this server.
>         Using a
>         framework, Django or whatever, would be easier. Maybe a separated
>         project from Zim?
>
>         /Helder
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