Andy, thanks for your comments. I will give my reaction to them in a series of posts, one per item.
On Thursday, February 6, 2020 at 9:52:45 PM UTC-5, andyjim wrote: > > I'm attaching my responses to the requirements you wrote, Thomas I'm > thrilled there is more interest here than I had thought. I haven't even > digested your comment here yet, just wanted to get my responses posted to > hold up my end here. Will gladly consider all thoughts on how we should > proceed here. Thanks much to all. I never expected this much when I > walked in here. I definitely want to take this as far as it can go. > 1. No lock-in @andyjim: "I agree with the principle you stated but not quite understanding the implications. Don't tie data up in a proprietary software system? Or does this refer to the organization of the notes? Don't organize them in such a way that would be a confused mess if you took the notes out of the system? I'm afraid I'm not catching on here." "Lock-in" is a term often used in connection with so-called open-source software. It means that if you decide to start using some other software system, you should be able to take your data and use it with the new system. If there were a standard format for this kind of thing, then it should be our choice. But there isn't one. To make this have a hope of being possible, our system should either use a text format, or at least be able to export such a format. This format should be relatively easy to write software to convert it to some other form, if need be. IMHO, it should also be possible for a person to read and type easily, so that even without a different system to change to, there would still be value in the zettels. I picture myself printing it all out and using it as an actual physical zettelkasten - but maybe that's too idealistic! However, consider that you might have to use a computer that doesn't have our software on it. You might still want to be able to create new notes, and later import them into our system. I think that's a realistic scenario. Maybe you had to take a borrowed laptop to a conference, or something like that, or a tablet that doesn't run Leo. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/b3653ee1-df97-4832-bc3a-1afda8b23299%40googlegroups.com.
