Recently I evaluated docear - a mind-mapping tool for collecting reference data (written in Java). It automatically extracts bookmarks and annotations from PDF files, and more, but it's support for authoring is still not up to the task. I think it would be great if Leo could do some of the tasks docear is doing.
Leo is primarily a literate programming editor, but also quite good at organizing bits of information. Dragging a PDF into Leo currently just creates an url to the PDF. This could be expanded to also extract data (bookmarks, notes) from the PDF and to sync this data between Leo and the PDF. This info could be placed in child nodes: bookmarks and notes could even jump directly to the page in the PDF (although each PDF viewer seems to have a different syntax for doing that). This would be a great way to organize data sheets and specifications stemming from external sources. Combining the above with an improved LaTeX support, one would get a very powerful research and authoring tool - in my opinion with a much more convenient interface than docear. Perhaps it is too much work to duplicate all the work docear is doing. An alternative may be to sync data somehow between docear and Leo. Docear stores the data in a freeplane mind-map. Has anyone else thoughts about this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/leo-editor/-/uviFCvR9DeMJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en.
