On Saturday, March 3, 2018 at 7:50:31 AM UTC-5, Israel Hands wrote: > > What do I use Leo for then? > > Content - for me content is king. Manipulate it - tag it - filter it - > anything you like but it's about content. > > So my first use of Leo is as a free form database for notes, minutes, > agendas,passwords, journal type stuff. Leo is a tremendously effective > bucket for information - and the ability to link to external files adds to > this capability. > I have written simple Python scripts. > So I am by no means a heavy duty user in terms of features but Leo is open > on my computers Win10 and OSX all the time. > > However there are things (and these I'm sure are very particular to me) > that make me look elsewhere for tools that I probably could and should use > Leo for that I don't. > > I'm a writer and generally my output is PDFs via Latex. I have looked at > the info on a workflow from Leo and just not found the energy to tackle it. > > So I use Scrivener - which is tree based - looks great and has a > relatively simple 'compile' mode to Latex. Now any attempt to turn Leo > into Scrivener would be madness, but if someone wrote a Latex plugin that > simple folk like me could use that would be great. However I hear the > argument 'there are plenty of text to Latex tools why should Leo be > another?' Well Leo has the tremendous advantage of not having to 'contain' > all the files > within itself - it can just reference them. So in Scrivener when I output > the document.tex file and then I want to make edits then I have go round > the whole edit in scrivener, compile, TexStudio routine. Whereas in Leo I > could just reference the > document.tex file and edit it directly from within Leo or just make the > final edits in TexStudio know that Leo will be able to reflect those edits > in the referenced file. > > Secondly I use org-mode - nothing sophisticated - not even as a todo list > - but as my daily agenda and reminder - I need a lot of reminding. Org's > capture and schedule tools are second to none. And with the addition of > Beorg on iOS > Org is surely going from strength to strength. Seeing my Org Mode Agenda > in Leo would be lovely - having that agenda fire reminders from Leo would > be even better. > > I wonder if I am alone on this island or are there other Leo users who > step away to do Scrivener and Org type things? >
You're not alone. I'm about to begin exploring Scrivener on a Mac, for writing technical manuals, including one that would run into the hundreds of pages with at least one index - grist for MultiMarkdown, I'm waiting for the posting of the Scrivener project for the manual for Scrivener 3. I've been reluctant to plunge into Org Mode since I don't necessarily want to live in Emacs. Twelve years ago or so, I used Leo under Windows to organize a software development effort; I loved the outliner-with-clones toolkit. I've wondered whether anyone uses Scrivener to track technical support work, with the mindset that the history of technical support for a customer is a form of storytelling. . . . . Since my Leo-based project of twelve years ago, I've switched jobs and moved from hosting my work on a Windows computer to basing my work on a Mac. I haven't figured out a Mac installation of Python and Qt and everything else needed for Leo. I gather that work has been done on installing Leo via Homebrew. Past reading left me preferring MacPorts to Homebrew, since MacPorts addressed multiple-user Macs where Homebrew did not. But, my Mac-related struggles are grist for a separate discussion thread. . . . -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
