[Vimoutliner] Encrypted outline: was Obvious but don't get it: how do I move outline at N+1 to N

[Steve Litt]

On Sunday 03 September 2006 02:20 pm, Peter Princz wrote:

> 0. As I wrote earlier in several posts, I maintain a one-and-only,
> huge outline file, that for the moment contains even it's own archive.
>
> :o
>
> I wanted to see at which point in time it grows to an unmanageable
> size. Now it  has: 17999 lines, 88882 words, 730822 bytes.
> It is password-protected, opening it takes almost one minute on my
> computer, while processor is 100% busy, so I can't do anything but
> drink my morning coffee while it opens. :)
> (One of the outstanding tasks is to figure out how to archive it, so
> to downsize it sometime the end of this year to approx. 300 kBytes, or
> get a faster computer.)
>
> 1. I do hoisting. The cursor is blinking on the status line, no
> indication it is waiting for a password. Took 30 minutes for the first
> time to realise it. :)

I'm wondering if you can find more convenient alternatives to this. Let's 
start with these two questions:

1) Do all parts of this huge outline concern all other parts, or do some parts 
not concern the others?

2) Do all parts of this huge outline need to be encrypted, or only some parts?

If the answer to both parts is "yes", consider making your master outline a 
list of interoutline links (after we bring interoutline linking to Windows). 
The leaf notes of my master outline are all interoutline links, and it works 
fantastically. Under such a scenario, those suboutlines requiring encryption 
could be left open.

Better yet, how about doing something so that your entire hard drive is 
incrypted. I think such things exist in Linux, so perhaps they exist in 
Windows too.

You mention getting a faster computer. How fast is your current processor, how 
much RAM do you have, and what is your current Windows version?

SteveT
 
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