> Your comments, please. Feel free to summarize your previous comments.  Now 
> is the time for dreaming.
>

My dream: use Leo everywhere I currently use Microsoft Onenote. It is my 
"all my thoughts in one place" tool. For those not familiar with it: think 
of MS Word as a multi-doc outline editor combined with wiki. It has:

   - universal search
   - hierarchy: Books >> Sections >> Pages >> Sub pages, 3 levels -- (very 
   limited compared to Leo)
   - easy hyper linking to Book, Section, Page, and Paragraph
   - links don't break when target is moved (with limits; they must stay in 
   same book)
   - paste images from clipboard, shows in-line with text; image resizing
   - rich text
   - when pasting from browser the source reference link is included
   - super easy table creation (type, tab, type --> you just created and 
   populated 2 cells)
   - macros (c.f. Onetastic)
   - Pages have history, similar to version control
   - Recycle bin
   - Multi-user simultaneous editing. Author paragraphs are marked
   - Can be stored in local or remote file system, and used in-situ
   - Synchronization between local and remote is transparent and usually 
   seamless
   - Offline disconnected editing
   - Feature full In-browser web editing when desktop app not available
   
Where Onenote falls down for me:

   - 
   - Hierarchy is limited
   - No clones
   - Zero code awareness
   - Macro language is it's own thing, no synergy with outside world. 
   (Though I think it might based on C#?)
   - MS is deprecating Desktop app in favour of in-browser web app and the 
   web app is less capable. I have now built a personal and business knowledge 
   base in 3 platforms whose authors then moved the environment in a way I 
   couldn't follow. I'm sick and tired of rebuilding.
   - Doesn't run on Linux (without Wine et al)
   - Can't wrap text around images
   - Export and or conversion to other formats is limited
   
Why I don't use Leo for this purpose already:

   - No rich text editing (plain text in one pane and rendered in another 
   is v. different experience)
   - Can't paste images (to be fair, this is hard. In a plain text world 
   where to store them is a wicked problem.)
   - No table editor
   - Co-workers, Leo is too niche for them. (I'm the only hacker type).
   - Keyboard interaction is just unique enough from my accumulated decades 
   of muscle memory that I don't get comfortable in it. (This one is something 
   I could address myself with custom key-bindings. I just haven't yet.)
   
None of these are complaints! They're just the friction points that get in 
my personal idiosyncratic way.

Matt

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