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!coffee! :D Good morning !tzag !fediverse !tempfix (the coffee is needed to be able to type, of course)
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@lohang @tobias after poking around in Zim (fueled by !coffee) I've decided that it can do what I want to be able to do, especially with regard to organisation of files by date, and by topic. Only main question is how I get titles auto-generated from dates formatted differently: nothing that I can find in the UI but it may be in a configuration file. Before I can dive into that I need *moar* !coffee. Getting there, though, for my envisioned journaling system. :)
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It looks very capable (more than when I tested some apps several years ago), and checks nearly all the boxes. It definitely has good ways to organize notes and not be forced into one way of doing it. But for my *current* requirements it fails on one important thing: there's no way to 'drag' a remote image into a document: nothing happens, you get not even a link. When "inserting" an image, you can oly navigate to a local file. and entering markup syntax (double curly brackets), you get a "broken" image - not just in the app: when exportig to HTML the (remote) image URL gets mangled with a prefix making it into a local "relative" or "absolute" path - which of course doesn't work. I looked at docs and plugins, and searched, but could not find any way to solve that. Wierd. In the end, I've decided to just install DokuWiki locally (with nginx as web server). And another browser (besides Firefox) to use it with.
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@tobias I *had* looked at that page, at least, but was not convinced it could be a "brain fit". Have you tried/used it? Maybe I should look a little closer? I'm ready to start actually writing down stuff instead of creating more things to write down, and still make do with little pieces of paper...
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@tobias sounds really interesting - but when I try to download, GitHub is (now) giving me unicorns and other error messages. (With two different browsers.) Maybe I should go and have a shower first ;-)
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@tobias OK, got it downloaded and installed (online installation inctructions don't quite atch reality) and got it to work - sort of. What irks me is there is no file system equivalent (that I can find!) to the structure I can create - I did at least find out how to create a new "document" as a link from an existing one. I have not figured out how to link an existing document to the current one. And one thing that always bothers me when I come across it: when you re-open a file it shows the date it's created in the file, but in "american" format. 10/4/2016 - wut? April? No setting anywhere to change the format. And "Export data" just closes when you try it - maybe it does export something - but whereto (if so) is a riddle. Also I see no way to define online storage than the two it is configured with. So - I'd call it "promising" but no "brainfit" for me - at least not yet. If anything, I'd need a lot more configurability.
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@tobias In settings there is a 'profile' called "notes-db", and if I go to export settings it opens a JSON text file where I find "profile" with value "notes-db". That is the only thing I can find that remotely looks like a path. But I cannot find "notes-db", and I cannot find where the current notes are stored either. I installed Epiphany browser (to keep it separate from Firefox), which (i find) is nice to run web apps inand you can save such a combo (browser+app) as an application that you can launch.
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@tobias As to date format: my system (MATE) is set to en_DK which gives me English language but ISO-format dates (2016-10-04). Usually I end up tweaking my locale more than that, but this is what I've learned to start from. But laverna has a directory called 'locales' where I fid many languages (probably corresponding to the "language" choice in settings), and there's 'en' but no 'en_DK' so I suspect that's where the problem is with the date format. I'm going to wipe it off of Tine now - but where is the current data???
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@tobias that was one of my guesses but there is no ~/.laverna and no ~/.config/laverna. Nothing in ~/.local/share either (although epiphany stores stuff there).
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@tobias nope. I checked with 'ls -la' and that shows you hidden directories, too - even if you're not root and the directory is owned by root. :) I guess one day I'll find it...
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