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Autor: Olaf Meeuwissen
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Para: Steve Litt
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Assunto: Re: [DNG] a how to question (project(s) related)
Hi,

Steve Litt writes:

> o1bigtenor via Dng said on Sun, 15 Aug 2021 09:43:46 -0500
>
>>Greetings
>>
>>I'm finding myself occasionally drowning in information resulting in me
>>trying to improve the connection between what I'm working on AND the
>>information that I'm collecting.
>>
>>An example (followed by some questions).
>>
>>I'm into gardening/raising my own food (simplified for here!!).
>>
>>Create a directory 'gardening' .
>>
>>Inside 'gardening' notes for a particular year (each year in its own
>>directory).
>>Dig some digging and hard links to directories are a no no (!!!!!!!!!)
>>- - like forbidden.
>>
>>I could see hard links being useful for what I want where soft links
>>are going to break (have had the joy of breaking some myself and
>>causing myself all kinds of joy in the process).
>>
>>Any ideas out there on how to find such an ecosystem?
>>
>>(I don't think a RDMS is what I want because then how does one store
>>directories inside the topic - - - its almost like a RDMS that has a
>>system inside it might do - - - argh - - - I think I'm getting more
>>confused rather than less in trying to set up something - - - argh!!)
>
> Check out VimOutliner. VimOutliner does this quite easily. Instead of
> whole redundant directories, you'll have redundant lines in a tab
> indented outline. Look for VimOutliner 3.4 or 3.5. VimOutliner went bad
> after 3.5.


For the Emacs-inclined, there are several outliner-type modes available
of which I personally use [Org mode][1]. This actually supports quite a
bit more than just outlining.

> [...]


[1]: https://orgmode.org/

Hope this helps,
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