I've begun to use it. And already I see that I could use a command to slap a UID into an already existing zettel that doesn't yet have one. I can do it (and have done it) by making a new zettel and copy-pasting the body of the old one to the new one, then delete the old, but that's a bit cumbersome. Oh boy, this gets complicated quickly. I'll also need to be able to select a section of a file and create a zettel out of it. It can go in a to-be-dealt-with node. Maybe these are actually parser functions.
Eventually I hope, at least my vision hopes, to 'run the show' from inside the zettels. For example, I prep an external (or it can be an already imported file) for the leokasten and turn the parser loose on it. What I want to happen, what happens in my vision, is the prepped zettels in the file are brought in, placed in their proper headings with all the hooks in place. Hooks meaning headings, title, subtitle, abstract, tags, body, links, keywords, sum-next, pointers, references/citations, Most of these optional but all of them supported, is the idea. And they are all written into the zettel, so the system just reads the zettel, does all the behind the scenes work, and I have virtually no overhead because I've done it all right there in the zettel. Plus I can alter or add anything later, which is essential in building up the network of interlaced connections. I know. Soon you're going to have to tell me to go sit in the corner and shut up. Probably right after the following: I have yet another Luhmann-based concern. Luhmann's numbering system created ordered, branched threads, meaningfully connected, meaningfully ordered. It wasn't just a way to create UIDs, though the numbers did also serve as UIDs. If he were to pull out all the cards numbered under "37", for example, it would be an ordered, multi-branched tree of sequenced thoughts. When he had a link from some card under "16" to some card under "37", in effect it created a link, not just between those two cards, but between one ordered, branched tree and another. He could pull out the entire tree(s) and walk up and down the sequence, investigating its branches in search of usable ideas. I think Zettelkasten people tend to say the automated UID system plus the tags system fulfills the purpose of this, but I don't think it does. Luhmann also used tags, but that was a separate system entirely, and gave him yet another cross-connected, indexed system within the system. He used tags for a different purpose. I think if tags had been able to take the place of those cascading threads of sequenced thoughts he would have had no need for the complex, branched, silly-looking numbering system he used. There was method in his madness. The branched threads represented stepwise, connected thoughts, while the tags represented relationships not based in any way on sequence, but merely shared or related topics. He wanted both, plus he also had headings systems and index systems. This is quite a mind dump, and I am very hard to get along with. Oh well, hopefully some of this is stimulating/amusing at worst and maybe a little of it possibly useful at best. -- 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/9847f00e-8866-4730-847e-ec6659f446ab%40googlegroups.com.
