On Sunday, March 1, 2020 at 10:54:59 PM UTC-5, andyjim wrote: > > 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. >
The way my system works is that each zettel is represented by a Leo node, and its identifier is Leo's own identifier for that node. It's know as its gnx. Leo needs to know that in order to move to that node. If you are thinking about inserting your own identifiers into a body of text that you wrote before putting sections of it into Leo nodes, well, you can't know what they would be before a node is created. Creating your own unique identifiers can be hard. Some of the issues: making them truly unique, cut-and-paste errors, typos. They can't be regenerated if they accidentally become deleted. Using the gnx, they can be retrieved if needed (it's almost trivial to write a command for that). My own plan for this kind of thing is to take the text that I want to split up into zettels and go through it a section at a time. For each section, make a new zettel in Leo. Then start to link them in Leo. Remember, with the Ctrl+F6 hot key, Leo will automatically insert a back link for you. The way these links work, you place the cursor on the line that starts with :link:, and hit the hot key. Leo will jump to that node and insert the backlink if there isn't one. You can keep expanding the set of zettels as you work through your original text. Any other kind of meta data that you want to put in, you can add either in the original text or in the zettel once it has been populated. I urge you to mark each bit of meta data just like :id: and :link: - with colons front and back (and a piece of metadata would have to be on a single line). I've attached a screenshot of an example. It shows the Leo view of a zettel and also the Restructured Text rendering. The URL is clickable in both the Leo and the rendered panes. BTW, you may notice that on the id line, after the actual identifier there is a string. The string is optional, but when the hot key command creates a backlink, it looks for that string and adds it to the backlink. If there is none, it adds the node's headline. That way, you have some idea of what that backlink points to, and you get that for no effort on your part. > > -- 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 leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/c7f2927e-5b29-4eeb-8183-caee2d7003ec%40googlegroups.com.
