I need tags :). Tags allow faster data organization than outline structure. Also creating outline structure gets easier when you can do clone-by-tag.
If we all agree that we need tags, all we need is an UI demo on what the tags look like on the tree. I think you should be able to glance the tree and see the tags, as opposed to navigating to the I have thought of making tags a new COLUMN on the tree widget. We should make the tag list of smaller font, and different color than the headline text. On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Terry Brown <[email protected]>wrote: > Does leo need tags for nodes? > > Interface wise I see something similar to the the bookmarks.py > interface, shown in the attached, colored strings indicating the tags a > node has, probably a bit smaller. Various commands and clicks for > adding or removing tags and navigating through the nodes with a > particular tag, or set of tags. > > This would be useful for all sorts of things, but Leo, being Leo, > already has features that overlap functionality wise. You could > collect clones of all the nodes you want to identify with a particular > tag, under a single parent node, which becomes the tag proxy thing. > > You can do something similar with the backlinks.py plugin which provides > unrestricted node linking, just link all the nodes which need a > particular tag to a particular node. > > But I'm guessing only a tag centric UI component will give the quick > and easy use you'd want from a tagging system. Data wise I guess tags > could be a simple list of string, p.v.u['_tags'], with Leo maintaining > an index of tag to node list mappings. > > Any thoughts / other software's approaches to look at? > > Cheers -Terry > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "leo-editor" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en-US. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
