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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by wraith808 on November 13, 2019, 12:05 PM »

What do you mean a bound file?  It's a text file on disk.  How is that bound?

And if that's the direction that they're going with V3, I'm glad I haven't upgraded.

https://github.com/w...king-with-text-files

From the definition of a bound file in this particular part of the documentation for wm3, this is not a bound file.  It is opening a local file.  It is not stored in a database- this is a new thing in WM3.

From the WM2 documentation

STANDARD AND CLEAN TEXT FORMAT
For maximum portability your work is stored in standard text files. Writemonkey is fully UTF-8 compatible and will recognize virtually all international characters. Supports other encoding standards ‒ Unicode, ANSII …

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software for Managing the Production of a Magazine

« Last post by wraith808 on November 13, 2019, 12:05 PM »

Trello's real life example of The Telegraph

-Dormouse (November 13, 2019, 10:47 AM)

Great article... thanks!

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by wraith808 on November 12, 2019, 05:40 PM »

there must be an option to open local files

-wraith808 (November 10, 2019, 11:44 PM)

It will open (and save) files. Most opening methods bind the files, but some don't.

-Dormouse (November 11, 2019, 03:17 AM)

And I guess that was my point.  It's an option, not a requirement.

-wraith808 (November 11, 2019, 02:52 PM)

I may have to recant. I can't actually find a way to open a file without it being bound into the database.
You can unbind the file - but that simply discards the link.
You can always edit the bound file with another program - but Writemonkey will give you an alert dialog when you try to open it again.

Text files can also be dragged into repository. New item with file's text is created but there is no link between the file and repository item.

I tried this and it was just a text copy in the repository.

So, afaics, Writemonkey works only on what is in its database. Open and save a file might look like a local file operation, but it isn't: it's importing to the database, binding the file and then saving the bound copy from the database.

-Dormouse (November 12, 2019, 04:41 AM)

I'm using it that way currently. I wasn't going off what you were saying.

In order to show this, I'm uploading a short video.  I figure that will explain what I'm saying better than words at this point.

https://my.pcloud.co...vEyKuqpsjz4nQJUkq5PX

(I tried uploading it to the forum, but it seems to act strangely when I do, redirecting to a blank page after the upload is complete, so excuse the pcloud link for it)

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by wraith808 on November 11, 2019, 02:52 PM »

there must be an option to open local files

-wraith808 (November 10, 2019, 11:44 PM)

It will open (and save) files. Most opening methods bind the files, but some don't.

-Dormouse (November 11, 2019, 03:17 AM)

And I guess that was my point.  It's an option, not a requirement.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by wraith808 on November 10, 2019, 11:44 PM »

Like I said, I've never used it that way, even on WM2.  So there must be an option to open local files.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by wraith808 on November 10, 2019, 04:21 PM »

WriteMonkey is the same (though documents can be bound to a file).

-Dormouse (November 10, 2019, 06:02 AM)

It is?  I've never used it that way.  I always work on local files.  This is the first that I've heard of that.

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N.A.N.Y. 2020 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2020: Xaya Name Utility

« Last post by wraith808 on November 08, 2019, 01:47 PM »

Good to see you pop up again, Renegade! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by wraith808 on November 03, 2019, 07:04 PM »

ok some more updates....
this is the developer of zettlr, and a nice video explaining some of the methodology and what dormouse talked about regarding luhman's original system and how technology affects it.
https://www.youtube..../watch?v=c5Tst3-zcWI

-superboyac (November 03, 2019, 03:04 PM)

I watched that video, and came away with the fact that it seems to be a wiki with tags, where the name of the file is the ID.  Is there something more than that I'm missing?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Hosting photos on your own site

« Last post by wraith808 on November 01, 2019, 09:50 AM »

jAlbum - was free, now looks to be paid - did have a link to the last free version here, looks like it's gone.

v9.6.1 looks to have been the last free version.

Untested download link (Software Informer), (VT analysis).

-4wd (November 01, 2019, 12:31 AM)

Those was the one that I was thinking about when I wroyethis, but thanks for the other suggestions!

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General Software Discussion / Hosting photos on your own site

« Last post by wraith808 on October 31, 2019, 10:33 PM »

There was a piece of software that was very easy to install on your website, and very easy to make galleries of photos for viewers to see that I used in the past- but I can't remember the name of it.  People here have used it- there's a free version and a paid version.  I know I'm not giving much to go off of here, but I just don't remember anything other than it was very easy to set up and I need something like that right now.

Does anyone recall any software that would let you host photo galleries easy on your own site?

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Living Room / Re: Cooking with tourettes

« Last post by wraith808 on October 31, 2019, 07:42 AM »

also a caution for anyone watching- it's nsfw for language.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive

« Last post by wraith808 on October 31, 2019, 07:39 AM »

Well, if I had another client that would actually use that format, then I suppose nothing would have been.  But moving to something else that doesn't do the same...  Not vendor locked is not the same thing as usable in another platform.  There's also the matter of the time spent color coding the types of files/folders.

-wraith808 (October 30, 2019, 10:24 PM)

I get that.

I restricted myself to the filename approach because I could access them by file search on any platform. I'm trying to avoid dependence on any particular software. Haven't reached the tagging stage yet, so I'm free to change my mind. SetTags is the only other one I know that uses filenames, though I expected there would be others. Can't say I've taken to TagSpaces or SetTags. I did consider simply using Bulk Rename and manage the tags manually.

-Dormouse (October 31, 2019, 05:24 AM)

With you re-starting this conversation around tagspaces, I tried it again.  Still the empty folder problem.  So I deleted my installation and then used a new zip.  It started working!  For how long, I don't know.  But it could have just been user error, though nowhere on the site do they say don't overwrite when you're upgrading.  I noticed that the interface is a lot spiffier than it was when I used it before, so perhaps that change was enough to make it a breaking change?

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive

« Last post by wraith808 on October 30, 2019, 10:24 PM »

I lost a lot of the work I'd done organizing with it when I had to switch, so that was a bummer.  Just something to watch out for.

-wraith808 (October 30, 2019, 11:05 AM)

If it saves tags in the filename, what got lost?

-Dormouse (October 30, 2019, 12:44 PM)

Well, if I had another client that would actually use that format, then I suppose nothing would have been.  But moving to something else that doesn't do the same...  Not vendor locked is not the same thing as usable in another platform.  There's also the matter of the time spent color coding the types of files/folders.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive

« Last post by wraith808 on October 30, 2019, 11:05 AM »

- More fun things to do with file reader output : if you put a special character (not above the number key but like zz), after the "regular" part of the file name and before all your tag-y things, then you can import that directory output into Excel, and chop it up into sections and then your notes can reference the fragment of the file name.

-TaoPhoenix (October 26, 2019, 06:23 PM)

The idea of using special characters to distinguish the tag section and individuate tags in filenames is used by the TagSpaces application, https://docs.tagspac...g-based-on-filenames . I remember trying it very long ago but might go and have another look at it now, as it seems to be actively developed.

-Nod5 (October 28, 2019, 01:25 PM)

I stopped using tagspaces.  Many times I have a blank screen; there's something in their electron application that fails at times- at least for me.  I even reinstalled and the problem was there.  I rebooted, tried again, and it worked for a bit, but stopped again after a short time.  I lost a lot of the work I'd done organizing with it when I had to switch, so that was a bummer.  Just something to watch out for.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Brave: A new browser with built-in adblock and payment solutions

« Last post by wraith808 on October 28, 2019, 11:46 AM »

Who knows... I see new features appearing all the time.  Nothing yet that I don't like, thankfully

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive

« Last post by wraith808 on October 28, 2019, 11:39 AM »

The only reason that I use anything other than just plain text is scraping web sources.  I've been thinking about doing something to extract plain text from web pages (sort of like the simplified version of the Evernote clipping extension)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best reliable freeware download sites?

« Last post by wraith808 on October 27, 2019, 09:33 PM »

WindowsRemix:
https://www.windowsremix.com/software

-panzer (September 04, 2019, 06:35 AM)

This looks like an alternative to Ninite (and  Chocolatey) for those who are installing on multiple machines.  Slant has a little review of the site, and likes the idea that it is doable simply from the browser.  Oh, this actually uses Chocolatey.

-Steven Avery (October 27, 2019, 09:17 AM)

I didn't notice this before... pretty cool!  I compared it to running Chocolatey manually, and it appears that it's just a click-once wrapper around the command line commands.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Brave: A new browser with built-in adblock and payment solutions

« Last post by wraith808 on October 26, 2019, 09:36 PM »

One thing Vivaldi has the option for, and I believe Firefox as well, is the idea of "lazy loading" tabs. That is, when opening the browser, it will restore all your tabs, but it won't actually load them until the first time you switch to them. This saves RAM and CPU, etc. And I don't think Brave does this. It seems to just load all the tabs as soon as possible.

-Deozaan (October 26, 2019, 05:41 PM)

I've noticed several times when recovering a session after a reboot, the tabs will have the loading icon until I explicitly click on them.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive

« Last post by wraith808 on October 24, 2019, 12:47 PM »

I still have that software that he recommended, though I never used it.  You can download it from https://my.pcloud.co...r8p1D6MB3vTP9h4vwa9X.  I don't have the installer, but it runs after installing Java Runtime.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Brave: A new browser with built-in adblock and payment solutions

« Last post by wraith808 on October 24, 2019, 10:20 AM »

Apparently I did not!  It's updating now LOL

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive

« Last post by wraith808 on October 24, 2019, 09:53 AM »

I remain not even slightly persuaded of the need to go full Markdown though.

-Dormouse (October 24, 2019, 04:50 AM)

It really depends on your usecase.  I don't use strictly markdown- I use plaintext when I need to, and even todotxt.  It's the one reason I've contemplated making my own texthaven replacement so that it would support rendering those formats.  But for now, having them in those formats where I need them is enough for me; I use dedicated editors when the formatting matters.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive

« Last post by wraith808 on October 23, 2019, 05:58 PM »

I'm in the plain text group.  It allows me to work between platforms, which I like.  I just use texthaven, which is a note program that works on the file system with whatever plain text format you throw at it.  I have different root folders for those things that I want to sync online vs the things that I don't want to sync online.

The only feature that I wish that it had was tags or some sort of tagging system, but I can do without, and a sync to Simplenote.  I formerly used ResophNotes to sync to simplenote, so that I could keep my online folder synced with simplenote to be able to get it from the browser.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Brave: A new browser with built-in adblock and payment solutions

« Last post by wraith808 on October 23, 2019, 05:57 PM »

that link takes me to a blank screen 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Book synopsis template

« Last post by wraith808 on October 22, 2019, 11:53 AM »

Thanks also, Shades!  I know you mentioned AsciiDoc before; your implementation caused me to take a look at it, and I realized that they do markdown books like Hackmd.io!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Brave: A new browser with built-in adblock and payment solutions

« Last post by wraith808 on October 22, 2019, 10:47 AM »

Isn't that managed by Uphold?  If that's the case, then it's been around for a while.  As a content creator, I had to verify my brave wallet with Uphold several months ago.