[Zim-wiki] moving files to note folder
Hello zim community! First of all, thankyou for the great app! I have a littlle question about how to move attachment files to the notebook folder. I'm often using GUI interface - Instruments - Insert File. When adding some external file to the notebook it copies it to the notebook folder. Is there any possibility not to copy file, but to move it to the notebook folder? Sorry for bad english, I/m not a native speaker, but I think you get idea of what i want :) ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Zim-wiki] Folder structure
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Rui Pedro Covelo rui.cov...@gmail.comwrote: Hello guys! I have been in love with zim since the first minute. Specially love how easy it is to customise with python scripts and how it stores the notes in a folder/file structure allowing me to keep other types of documents together with the notes. This is not only tidy, it also enables me to access my notes even if Zim is not available with a simple text editor in any kind of device. That is the kind of flexibility I like for my notes applications. There is just on tiny thing that is not perfect for me in this file structure. I was wondering what is the reasoning behind this design. I think it will be better if I explain with an example: If I create a note A, I get a file name A.txt like this A.txt Now if create a second note B, I get this: A.txt B.txt Creating a subpage AA under the note A causes the creation of a folder A and the note AA inside it like this: A AA.txt A.txt B.txt Something similar happens when you had attachments. If A.doc is an attachment for note A and AA.xls is an attachment for note AA, you get this: A AA AA.txt AA AA.xls A.doc A.txt B.txt What bothers me is that I get files belonging to note A along side with note AA and away from note A.txt. This means if I'm working in the context of note A, I am editing a note file A.txt which is in the root of this tree and editing documents inside the folder A along side with AA.txt which I don't really need. If you always work inside Zim GUI, this is somewhat taken care of because the GUI interface allows for you to be editing the note while keeping the documents for that note visible in the same screen. But I think this breaks a little that flexibility I so much love in Zim. I was thinking about creating my own patch to solve this on my side without affecting Zim, but I was wondering if there is anything I am forgetting that I will break with this. And if not, it would also be interesting to know what you guys think about this and potentially officially change this. The rationale for this structure is that it is optimized for wide structure, not a deep one. So I assume notebooks have many pages on the same level, but only few pages have attachments or sub pages. An alternative would be to put each page in it's own folder. That way you optimize for a deep structure. (Having many folders with just one file in it is not convenient.) There has been a patch / hack before that put each page in it's own folder with README.txt the text of the page. So you would get: AA/ README.txt image.png AAA/ README.txt BB/ README.txt etc. Can't find it back right now - not sure if it is in the bug tracker or the mailing list archive. I'm open to add this alternative folder structure, but it needs to be a clean patch that allows using both structures. To achieve this I would give the following guidance: 1/ Implement a new store in parallel to the current zim/store/files.py - e.g. zim/store/folders.py. 2/ Allow the notebook config (notebook.zim) to configure the store module to be used - default to the current files 3/ Bonus: add gui control to select the store module when creating a new notebook Should be rather straightforward to patch 1 and 2 - that would at least allow expert users to utilize this. (If you don't like the suggestion to use README.txt as the special name, consider putting this name also in the notebook config as an option.) Looking forward to the patch, Jaap ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Zim-wiki] About priorities of tasks
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 9:56 PM, Svenn Are Bjerkem svenn.bjer...@googlemail.com wrote: On 16 August 2013 15:41, Klaus-Dieter Bauer bauer.klaus.die...@gmail.comwrote: I'd defninitely like negative priority too. Currently I am often adding !! by default, but sometimes I forget... As for the notation, how about something like -!!? Literally negating the priority indicator and unlikely to clash with existing notes. Nice idea. A very important task would then become a very unimportant task, which is very much the truth in many cases where the user decides against deleting it. On the other hand, if it would be acceptable to use ? to lower an already existing sequence of !, then the real question mark would be protected. TODO Is this really an urgent task? !!!?? TODO Wouldn't this task have an importance level of 0? !? This assumes that the user is inserting a space between the task text and the priority sequence. So then they rule becomes that only ? directly following a ! are counted ? E.g. TODO: Check with project X ? -- prio 0 TODO: Check with project X ? ! -- prio 1 TODO: Check with project X ? !? -- prio 0 TODO: Check with project X ? !?? -- prio -1 TODO: Some action ! - really needed ? -- prio 1 TODO: Some action !? -- prio 0 TODO: Some action !?? -- prio -1 This semantic would show that negative prios reflect the amount of confusion there is about the action item - somehow that feels right to me - you start with a clear prio and as the amount of confusion grows it drops to the bottom of the list :) Regards, Jaap ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Zim-wiki] moving files to note folder
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Nik forin...@gmail.com wrote: Hello zim community! First of all, thankyou for the great app! I have a littlle question about how to move attachment files to the notebook folder. I'm often using GUI interface - Instruments - Insert File. When adding some external file to the notebook it copies it to the notebook folder. Is there any possibility not to copy file, but to move it to the notebook folder? Sorry for bad english, I/m not a native speaker, but I think you get idea of what i want :) What I often do is to simply open the folder with the normal file browser (Tools - Open attachment folder or use the button in the Attachment Browser plugin). Then you can move around files in any way you like - zim will detect the new files as attachments. Regards, Jaap ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Zim-wiki] Folder structure
What about adding a new folder just for attachements to the original folder so they wouldn't mix with other pages?AA.txtAA-attachement/ image.pngAA/ BB.txt BB/ CC.txt With this aproach we could have txt attachements. AA-attachement/ this patern name would probably have to be reserved and should start with '_' or so so that it would stay over other folders ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
