do you take complex notes with a computingdevice?
Yes
how? Using my favourite text editor (Geany), following my own standardized protocol [1]
do you re-process your notes offline? Yes.
Perl script reads the txt files, writes as an Asciidoctor file with tags and cross references. Asciidoctor then writes that as a html file with three frames;
i Index, linking to ...
ii Short form html of all notes, each abbreviated to first 5 lines, with ...
iii The full dataset pretty printed, with hyperlinks forwards and backwards between entries
would you like some functionality that you don't have in your system? Yes -
I would like automatic addition of cross refs between enries, as function of contents of each entry.
what is missing from current technology ?
I used to use CherryTree, and before that TiddlyWiki. I also tried MySimpleLogbook, and I dabbled with facetted classification.
I found that hierarchical classification schemes dont suit my needs; for me a rich set of hyperlinks is much better.
I also found it useful to be able to browse the whole dataset, each entry being reduced to just the top five lines, with "click here" to read the whole entry
And I found it useful to have a choice of four indexes -
i chronological order,
ii alph order of topic,
iii alph order of tags,
iv tagcloud,
- each index entry giving hyperlink to the full text
[1]
In the parent text file each entry looks like this
ymdHMS
Topic; subtopic
Description as plain text.
Links are written as plain text. Links "html://foo.bar.html", "file://bar/foo.txt" are detected during processing and appear as in the final text.
Placing illlustrations (pngs and jpgs) in the final output is currently done using Asciidoctor instructions. This is the only place I have to write A'doctor syntax.
Cross ref: ymdHMS of related entry
Currently cross refs A→B have to be written by hand.
Perl adds back refs B→A
And if B→C, then Perl also adds C→A and A→C
RCH
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