On Wednesday, April 04, 2018 02:45:49 PM Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 04 Apr 2018, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I've considered maildir--it meets some of my requirements (that is, to > > make something close to an askSam workalike), but one drawback is that > > it is essentially one email (i.e., my "record"). One of the desirable > > features of askSam is that you did not have to create a new file to > > add a new note / record, you just start typing in an existing open > > record and then, as time or other constraints allow, you can add more > > "tags" or a record separator. (It's been so long since I've used > > askSam I actually forget what had to be done (f anything) to separate > > a new record from the previous record). > > You might want to consider looking at org-mode too.[1] There are > even integrations for notmuch+mutt+Maildir there. > > 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJTwQvgfgMM
Thanks for the link / pointer to org-mode. From the little I've looked at, it has several similarities to what I'm doing--for example, the collapsible outlining / folding, and the use of a mark-up language (I use the TWiki markup language with a few extensions / modifications--oh, and that reminds me (if anyone is keeping track of my mashup)--TWiki / Foswiki are other programs that are part of the mashup--records in my mashup are maintained in a form that would work as a page (they use a different word--ohh, topic) of a TWiki / Foswiki, and someday I'd like to have an automatic import / export facility-- in my home mashup. With that automatic import / export facility, I could designate certain records to be "public" (or something like that) which would mean: (1) if they were not on my public TWiki / Foswiki, they would be automatically exported (when I was connected to the Internet and designated that it was appropriate to "sync" my home storage with the public wiki), and (2) any public wiki pages that might have been modified (by others) would be copied to the mashup as backup. (Also, if a mashup page was designated as "public", after I made changes on the mashup they would (at an appropriate time) be uploaded to the public wiki. I could discuss my hate-hate relationship with Emacs--I tried a few times to learn Emacs, and had difficulty for a variety of reasons. Part of it was my hate-hate relationship with Lisp, another part was that Emacs (at the time) seemed much less GUI / mouse friendly than the editors I had grown used to in my DOS / Windows days (even though I learned (and liked) a lot of shortcut keys--I guess maybe an early encounter (with shortcut keys) was with Wordstar, and then I used a shareware editor (that I paid for--high praise indeed from me) that used the same set of shortcut keys--I can't remember the name of that editor atm. Anyway, thanks for prompting me to reminisce. I know that at the times I looked at Emacs (and Xemacs) they had outline mode, I'm not sure I recall org mode. I expect I will spend a little more time looking further into org mode, although I think my mashup has or will have the features I've seen there so far. (Aside: My mashup uses kate as the editor, but because of some long standing bugs in kate (which, finally after several years were supposedly fixed a few years ago) I had to add closing markup to the opening markup of TWiki / Foswiki. In the meantime, I decided I wanted to switch to using any Scintilla based editor (there are a lot) as the editor, but so far, have not got a folder / highlighter written for Scintilla. (And, the one time I tried to test the fixed Kate, it didn't seem to work as promised, and I just left it as is, still requiring the ending markup.)) Thanks again for the response!