I will chime in on the documentation issue. Better documentation and especially examples would have worked to speed my adoption of Leo as my primary information management and writing tool.
I am not a programmer. The first evidence of my using Leo (a .leo file in a back-up) was in 2007. My first question to the google group was in 2012. During those five years I visited Leo occasionally to check and see if I was any less of an idiot for not understanding how to make it work for my use case. In 2012 I decided to switch first and persevere my way through. I even went so far as to work my way through a couple of Python tutorials but writing kept eating up my time. I now use about 5% of Leo and its capabilities. It is already the best editor for writing I have ever used (non-fiction and fiction). I rely on it to stay organized and to help manage an enormous amount of media on my hard drive. I still feel like an idiot when it comes to Leo. But I can now at least bend it to my will somewhat when presented with a task. A comprehensive scripting tutorial with many examples would be fabulous. As it is I tend to hack at something until frustration sets in at which point I ask on the group. I then take the helpful script that Terry or Edward writes for my specific question and use it as a template to try to make it work in other cases, sometimes successfully. Better documentation would open Leo up to a much wider audience. Reading code in order to learn how to operate the software may work absolutely wonderfully for a programmer. But I am not a programmer. But I can write and would be willing to help out with documentation as I bring a different perspective than a programmer would. Chris -- 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.
