Sure, I understand. And I wasn't thinking about delineating the different pieces by date so much as automatically extracting them. Sounds like that won't work.
However, having the dates in the zettels would have the advantage that they can be searched for in Leo without us having to write any new code. On Monday, February 17, 2020 at 4:16:38 PM UTC-5, andyjim wrote: > > > On Sunday, February 16, 2020 at 11:08:54 PM UTC-5, Thomas Passin wrote: >> >> >> Could you send me an example file? It you typed in a date, you probably >> did it in a more or less standard way, and maybe we can automate getting it >> out without you having to handle each and every file. >> BTW, how many of these files are you talking about? Roughly speaking, of >> course. >> > > There are 20+ of the yearly Word files, but I'll be looking at material in > other Word files as well; don't know how many. Much of my writings are an > undifferentiated mix of personal and non-personal stuff, so because of the > personal stuff I cannot offer a sample. But I will not be extracting *all* > of the material in these files to zettels. I assume you were thinking of > using the dates as delineators. I am confident that would not work for at > least a couple of reasons: I wrote on multiple topics each day, so sooner > or later it will have to be subdivided deeper than just the date level, and > also, since I don't want all of the material to go into the zettelkasten, > the parser will need to skip over a lot of material. It seems to me that > I'll need to insert headings, tags, keywords, perhaps what I've called > 'pointers' (a great idea in my opinion, quite a creativity booster), and > any other devices (URLs?) we come up with so zettels do all the magic that > we want them to do. > > I want to accomplish as much of that as possible as I prep the files for > the parser so I don't still have another mammoth task of working through > all the zettels *again *to populate them with tags, headings, etc *after* > bringing them into the system. Am I correct that basically what this > requires is a pre-designed zettel template with markdown for all these > sub-elements, so that I go into these files, designate each zettel, format > it according to the template and insert markdown defining tags, headings, > etc, i.e. everything that makes up a zettel, so all the parser has to do is > pick it up and plunk it into a zettel and it is now a functional zettel > with all its accoutrements, ready to take its place as a complete and fully > functioning member of the community? > Or is there more to it than that? > > Upshot of the above is that I really don't see any alternative to working > through every file individually, identifying the items I want, deciding > upon tags, keywords, headings, etc and inserting everything needed. Is > this how you are conceiving it or am I out in left field? > > I did not write with a zettelkasten-like plan in mind for 'someday', so > the material is a mess. > -- 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/694e968b-647d-4b6f-bd2d-2281dba054ab%40googlegroups.com.
