[Vimoutliner] Thanks again for checkboxes

[Steve Litt]

How's this for a top level outline:

* basic usage
* features
* troubleshooting
* addons
* usage tips and tricks

Does that sound like a plan for the top level?

SteveT


On Friday 11 July 2008 19:21, Lucas González wrote:
> Here's the reminder! ;-)
>
> And I don't know what the priorities would be.  I guess it'd be an
> outline of new features, and then we'd be able to prioritise what is
> more useful, what's cooler, what has a greater potential to expand the
> user-base, or whatever.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Lucas
>
> 2008/7/6 Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>:
> > Hi Lucas,
> >
> > Let's discuss this when I return from Athens GA late this coming week.
> > VO's code and capabilities have waaaayyyy outpaced its documentation, so
> > I guess it's time for me to get to work documenting.
> >
> > Please remind me late this coming week, and try to set up  priorities of
> > what you'd like documented first.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > SteveT
> >
> > Steve Litt
> > Recession Relief Package
> > http://www.recession-relief.US
> >
> > On Saturday 05 July 2008 03:23, Lucas González wrote:
> >> 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
> >> > Recession Relief Package
> >> > http://www.recession-relief.US
> >> >
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