On Monday, March 2, 2020 at 8:57:30 AM UTC-5, Thomas Passin wrote: > > > On Sunday, March 1, 2020 at 10:54:59 PM UTC-5, andyjim wrote: >> >> 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. >> > > Creating your own unique identifiers can be hard. >
Yes, I do not contemplate writing my own UIDs. I realize that UIDs belong to Leo, not to me. I meant that if I have an existing node, OR, a section of a file, that has not yet become a zettel in the system, with UID, I need a direct, quick way to accomplish 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. > How do you go about making a section of text a zettel? Copy paste it into the body of an already created (with UID) empty (i.e. no body as yet) zettel? That's ok for a few, but I will have large numbers of them. 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. > Good, all of this starts to build a picture. I've not yet done links but will shortly. And the notion of all the meta lines being right there in the zettel, where you can modify or add to your heart's content (except for the UID of course) places control where it belongs, within the zettels. It's a bottom up system. Two pieces are not under control of the zettel: the UID (and that necessarily belongs to the system, so no problem there), and the outline heading(s). I've really only begun to think about the Leo outline structure and how to use it to enhance the functionality/utility of the zk system. Cloning provides another sort of connection. In some cases I will want to place zettels under multiple headings. Hierarchical outlining is a top-down system, so we have a sort of dynamic tension between top-down and bottom up in this, and I think that attempts to model the mind's ability to think both top-down and bottom-up. -- 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/7acd3b4f-46cd-4300-9819-047d2b1dccc9%40googlegroups.com.
