Here's a small contribution about my use of limited rich text, which
might be worth considering even if you don't go for the whole thing:
My main PIM for many years has been Ecco, which offers a limited sort of
rich text: character formatting by font, size, style, and color. Over
time, I've found ways to use it to help my productivity. For example, I
may have a list of several tasks to do on a particular project; I've
found it useful to boldface a few key words in each list item to make it
easier to scan the list. (Ecco also makes it easy to apply this
formatting based on outline level, which I've used a bit.)
I've used this capability a bit when composing emails in Thunderbird,
which supports some HTML features.
I also use Tom Revell's Stickies quite a bit. On a sticky, you have
character formatting and some paragraph formatting: alignment, one-level
list styles (bulleted, numbered, lettered); I've used both.
I do use LibreOffice when I need to compose a large document, but I've
never been tempted to use it for note-taking, organizing information,
etc., and I don't miss the full-scale WYSIWG composition facilities in
Ecco, etc.
I guess my summary point is that, when composing a fair amount of text,
it can be helpful to have at least a basic set of "riches" available.
It also seems like it might not be quite as expensive to implement as a
full rich text capability.
I should mention in closing that I'm mostly tracking Leo at this point,
with the idea of using it as an environment for both PIM purposes
(replacing Ecco) and development (replacing/supplementing Emacs). It
looks like there's going to be a significant conversion effort, so I'm
taking it slowly.
Thanks for a really promising environment,
--
Don Dwiggins
Advanced Publishing Technology
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