[Vimoutliner] Thanks again for checkboxes

[Steve Litt]

Hi Noel,

As I finish preparations for tomorrow's business trip, it's time again to 
thank you for checkboxes. What a world of difference they make in trip 
preparation.

Also a big thankyou goes out to whoever clued me in on putting stuff like 
@wallet and %lastminute in my outline. The @wallet type stuff lists the 
container that each item goes in. Because of a Places first level item in the 
notebook, such containers can be hierarchical. For instance, in the main 
outline there's a line like this:

8 coursewares @ trainingbox

Then, in the places tree, there are the following items, all with checkboxes:

trainingbox @ smallsuitcase
smallsuitcase @cartrunk

Ultimately, the car's trunk is the ultimate container, because obviously it 
doesn't go with me without getting in the trunk.

Doing it like this enables me to pack hierarchically, with all the training 
box stuff checked off when it goes in the training box, but then I need to 
check the trainingbox off in the small suitcase, and then the small suitcase 
in the trunk. It's a really wonderful system.

Also, it serves as one heck of a packing list, identifying where everything 
is.

The %lastminute gives me a way (via a grep command) to ignore certain items 
until I leave (keys, stuff in wallet, wallet, travelling bluejeans and the 
like. With the known last minute stuff out of the picture, I can concentrate 
on what SHOULD be packed. Of course, just before I go, I make sure that 
EVERYTHING is checked off (or perhaps labeled with %nottaken so it can remain 
in the outline for next time, but not worried about this time.

With checkboxes plus @location and %timing, the outline becomes a 
multidimensional database that can be ad-hoc queried with grep one liners.

So thanks!!!

SteveT

Steve Litt
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http://www.recession-relief.US