A little effort in starting an Android app was done in the past. I thought I could - at least - help with the mockup design, but couldn't work on it. If you think your students can go down that road, this is the starting point: https://github.com/jaap-karssenberg/zim-android-mockapp/wiki
Having an app would really be a nice addition to Zim! Kind regards, Marco Cevoli Traduttore tecnico. Grafico. Congiungitore di punti. Technical translator. Graphic designer. Joiner-of-dots. ------------------------------------------------------- https://www.marcocevoli.com [email protected] t 34 675 800 826 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My latest novel: https://uziversitari.marcocevoli.com My latest ebook: https://gum.co/insostituibile My latest projects: http://www.qabiria.com, http://www.allerglobal.com On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 4:16 PM John R. Marks, IV <[email protected]> wrote: > I CANT BELIEVE I JUST THOUGHT OF THIS. > > So, y'all, I teach in the MSIT at Florida State University, and this > semester is my Advanced Web Applications class. Broadly, it ends up being > a VERY language agnostic class because our student pool is varied in terms > of skill (FSU is weird, our Computer Science dept is completely separate > from our Information/IT School, and I'm in the latter). I personally have > a very wide-but-SHALLOW knowledge about languages and frameworks (right now > we still default to PHP + a little mostly vanilla JS because that's what I > know how to do, despite all the frameworky stuff out there) > > Either way, though, I'd LOVE to point some of my students in the direction > of some sort of web and/or mobile interface to Zim. It really does seem > like it shouldn't be that hard especially if you consider the possibility > of not really interacting with Zim-native's internal database, just do "the > files" and perhaps spin up a separate one if needed. That, for me, has > always been the beauty of Zim - the flat files. The db isn't "primary" and > can be reloaded/destroyed whatever. I occasionally have cheated on Zim with > org-mode. naughty-naughty, and that factor -- the ability to create > multiple types of interfaces (orgzly, organice, etc etc) because of the > simplicity of the filesystem. > > Anyway, this is part cheerleading and part volunteer from someone who'd > love to see more of this. > > John > jrm4.com > > > On 5/13/20 9:34 AM, Gergely K. wrote: > > Slightly off but my advice is not to go with Django. It was a clever > framework (does things ahead of time, like orm) and has some unique > features, but it's components are not standard and it is a bit > glued-together. Rather go with standard libraries (which you can use in any > (non-web) projects)! > > On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 3:00 PM Shivam Sharma <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Wow. That was quick. I will test your patch. >> >> And the idea for building a full-fledged web application around Zim is >> great. It should be started as a separate project, however. Zim community >> may not welcome the idea integrated into Zim since Zim has been very robust >> by being lean (and not being too many things at once). >> >> If you do start work on the project, I'd be willing to help. I have some >> experience with Flask but not much with Django. >> >> On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 16:26, Helder Guerreiro <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On 08/05/20 16:13, Helder Guerreiro wrote: >>> > Is it possible to add a search box to the internal Zim server? >>> >>> Since it seems there is no easy way to add search to the server I made >>> the patch attached (against master). There's an example search box in >>> the "Default_with_index" template. >>> >>> But this got me thinking, now I'm looking for other features, tag list, >>> task list, maybe even marking tasks directly from the server or editing >>> pages... This seems to be a little too much for this server. Using a >>> framework, Django or whatever, would be easier. Maybe a separated >>> project from Zim? >>> >>> /Helder >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > -- > Mobile:(+36 20)356 9656 > "Olyan lángész vagyok, hogy poroltóval kellene járnom!" > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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