[Vimoutliner] Thanks again for checkboxes

[Lucas González]

I know it's the last thing you need-want-can do, but ... ok, I was
disconnected from this list for many months.  What's been going on?
You guys seem to have turned vim+vimoutliner into something that is
really so much more than good old plain outlining.  And it doesn't
show in the fine manual.  What would a how-to look like?   Or is it
many how-tos depending on who's using it and what they want to do?  An
outline of what is there to find?

I'm not saying Please share your umenues and grep one-liners or
anything.  Just intrigued at what are all those new posibilities after
the basics of outlining are more or less groked.  The title of the
article would be "beyond simple outlining" or something.

:-?

Lucas

2008/7/5 Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>:
> 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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