Re: Leo as PIM and authoring tool

2012-08-01 Thread Josef
On Monday, July 30, 2012 8:08:23 PM UTC+2, Ville M. Vainio wrote: > > > It seems that e.g. w/ foxit reader, you can open selected page from > command line (-n 123). Abstracting this for other pdf readers that support > such a thing should be no problem. > > Yes, I suppose one could translat

RE: Leo as PIM and authoring tool

2012-07-30 Thread Ville Vainio
uly 30, 2012 7:19:19 PM *To:* leo-editor@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: Leo as PIM and authoring tool Hi Terry, no, I do not need the mindmap stuff at all. I had a look at short look at cmaptools, and I agree the generalized graph approach seems better than a standard mindmap. But I am quite happy wi

Re: Leo as PIM and authoring tool

2012-07-30 Thread Josef
Hi Terry, no, I do not need the mindmap stuff at all. I had a look at short look at cmaptools, and I agree the generalized graph approach seems better than a standard mindmap. But I am quite happy with the tree view in Leo and as you already mentioned, this can be extended with backlinks etc. I

Re: Leo as PIM and authoring tool

2012-07-30 Thread Terry Brown
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 02:44:46 -0700 (PDT) Josef wrote: > Recently I evaluated docear - a mind-mapping tool for collecting reference > data (written in Java). It automatically extracts bookmarks and annotations > from PDF files, and more, but it's support for authoring is still not up to > the t

Re: Leo as PIM and authoring tool

2012-07-30 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, I have been using Leo to write my thesis. I didn't know about Docear, but my use was in some sense similar. I have a lot of @url links pointint to the pdfs files and in a subtree I cut and paste the text of the pdf I want to comment and made the comments inside the tree. These pdf were pa

Leo as PIM and authoring tool

2012-07-30 Thread Josef
Recently I evaluated docear - a mind-mapping tool for collecting reference data (written in Java). It automatically extracts bookmarks and annotations from PDF files, and more, but it's support for authoring is still not up to the task. I think it would be great if Leo could do some of the tasks