Re: [Zim-wiki] Usage
Chris, all, Just put a small plugin together that puts a list of backlinks in the side pane. Maybe this will help your work flow as it makes the links more visible. Install it by dropping in the zim/plugins folder and restart zim. Enable in the preferences dialog. This version put links in right side pane - will sync it in trunk such that it will configurable. (Maybe bottom pane makes it look more like you want ? You can try it out by replacing RIGHT_PANE by BOTTOM_PANE in the code.) Another idea that I want to work on is to have a link type. E.g. for my notebook of zim tasks a Depends On type to link pages would be really useful. (And probably link map plugin could be updated to only show specific types as well.) Then we could organize the links in the pane by the type of link. If anyone has a suggestion for the syntax to attach a type to a link, I'm open for suggestions. Regards, Jaap On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Jaap Karssenberg jaap.karssenb...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 11:45 PM, Chris Miller c...@tryx.org wrote: Is there anybody using zim as a daily journal of activities such that: Activities with and notes about people I encounter during the day accumulate in one place qualified by the person so I can see the activities with a person over time and that person's page will have links to people I think are related -- maybe an index page, maybe a name space, maybe something else? Activities across a variety of projects similarly accumulate in a calendar page so I can see what happened on any given day? This seems straight forward, but CTRLD stamps a date on my current page and creates a calendar page with no content. The calendar page will also have a backlinks item in the statusbar. Click this to see what goes there. The backlinks menu that pops up has tear-off strip that allows you to pop it into a small dialog. This can be used to go over the list one by one. If I understand correctly what you want is to have a backlink index in the page itself. This is not possible at the moment, although not impossible to hack a plugin that could do something like that. For relations between people also the Link Map plugin might be interesting for you. If you put explicit links on pages to people this plugin can show a map of how people and projects relate. To answer the question on usage. What I do myself is I have a namespace per project where I put relevant information, tasks lists etc. Per project I have a kind of journal page where I put minutes of meetings etc. Here I just put a heading with the date on top for a new entry. I also keep a calendar page per week with time specific tasks. So I make less use of links for this use case - but I do use tags to classify task items. I realize that this will not happen magically, and it may not even be practical. I realize that this is close to contact management territory, and question is sketchy because my goals are not really clear in my own mind and they will be shaped and become clearer as I understand zim capabilities better. Regards, Jaap backlinkpane.py Description: Binary data ___ 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] Usage
Hi Folks, Is there anybody using zim as a daily journal of activities such that: * Activities with and notes about people I encounter during the day accumulate in one place qualified by the person so I can see the activities with a person over time and that person's page will have links to people I think are related -- maybe an index page, maybe a name space, maybe something else? * Activities across a variety of projects similarly accumulate in a calendar page so I can see what happened on any given day? This seems straight forward, but CTRLD stamps a date on my current page and creates a calendar page with no content. I realize that this will not happen magically, and it may not even be practical. I realize that this is close to contact management territory, and question is sketchy because my goals are not really clear in my own mind and they will be shaped and become clearer as I understand zim capabilities better. Chris. Staff Engineer Hat Trick ___ 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] Usage
On Saturday, July 7, 2012, Jaap Karssenberg wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Chris Miller c...@tryx.org javascript:; wrote: Hi Folks, Love zim. Had to get that out of the way, in case there are any questions. I'm trying a journal application. As I make notes, I can CTRLD date stamp entries and back link them. I expected that I'd be able to view all of my activity chronologically, but I see no entries on the calendar page. If you link to calendar pages they should show up as placeholders in the index. Did you try the option link to date in the dialog ? I think he meant being able to click on a month in the hierarchy and see the entire month's entries on one page. Chris, if you search this list archive for a thread called Evernote/Footnote-like UI change you'll find a plugin that basically does this. Maybe it will help you. As I make notes, I encounter people, so I'd like to be able to collect all the activity with a particular person on a page, but the person is in a group in a company. This sounds like an application for namespaces, if i could find an example, then I'd be good to go on this. You can use a colon : in a page name to create namespaces. Alternatively this may be a good use for tags. E.g. create a namespace with persons, but group them with tags. The tag plugin will give you an alternative index where you can find the pages per tag. I'd love to be able to view text snippets which have a tag displayed in a single page view, regardless of what page the snippet is on. That plugin might be a useful starting point. A problem would be the logic to decide what part of the page the tag applies to; it would get more complicated when you consider lists, indentation, blank lines, etc. It might require standardizing how the user applies tags. ___ 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
[Zim-wiki] Usage
Hi Folks, Love zim. Had to get that out of the way, in case there are any questions. I'm trying a journal application. As I make notes, I can CTRLD date stamp entries and back link them. I expected that I'd be able to view all of my activity chronologically, but I see no entries on the calendar page. As I make notes, I encounter people, so I'd like to be able to collect all the activity with a particular person on a page, but the person is in a group in a company. This sounds like an application for namespaces, if i could find an example, then I'd be good to go on this. Can I like pages across notebooks? Lots more easy questions coming along, but so far I am stoked about how well this thing works! Thanks for the help, Chris. ___ 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
