| Project: | Mori |
| Version: | 1.3 |
| Component: | User interface |
| Category: | feature |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
Description
There were the features that attracted me to HBN in the first place. Without them, the application is not particularly useful for my needs.
Update: I changed the title from "Assembling Documents and WikiLinks" to "Assembling Documents" so that this request is only about one thing.
Updates
| Version: | » 1.2 | |
| Priority: | critical | » normal |
I very much agree. Document assembly was one of the most exciting things about HBN. There are only two other outliners I know of that do this. Leo does it almost precisely the way HBN did, to such an extent that most (if not all?) of Leo the outliner itself is written using Leo! But, being a Python+Tkinter application, it isn't exactly OS X "savvy." The other outliner I know of that does something like this is Tinderbox, but it is really more than an outliner, and its assembly instructions are more designed for flexibility, not simplicity. HBN's did one thing very quickly and easily, that is what I liked about it.
From a data management stand-point, assembly allows the user to operate in smaller notes, increasing the relevance of smart folder and search results.
I concur. The Assemble feature of HBN was superb and critical to how I work. The assemble applescript that is available for Mori strips text attributes and is therefore useless to me. Until this feature is added (I think I remember Jesse promising to do this at the end of last year) I cannot use Mori.
This is the other feature I most miss from HBN (after the automatic WikiLink creation). Document assembling isn't something I did often, but an HB notebook was good for doing drafts of longer stories -- I could outline the story flow, and fill in scenes or even chapters, in the outline elements. Then I could assemble those into an RTF document I could bring into my word processor.
| Version: | 1.2 | » 1.3 |
I am new to Mori, and never tried out HB Notebook. Could somebody explain what document assembly is/was? Thank You.
Assembling documents means turning many entries into a single text file by assembling them in some way. There are some simple applescripts that will do this to some extent now. For example download the Mori sample scripts:
http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/node/401
and try out the "Assemble Content" and "Assemble Outline" scripts. But ideally the system would be much more flexible so that you could generate websites, plain text, and everything in between output.
I think the way that I plan to approach this problem is by creating a XML export format for mori that can then be processed with XSL to generate final documents. That will be a confusion process for most users, but most people can just reuse solutions that expert users make. At the moment I'm still trying to figure out what the best XML format for Mori is. See this post:
http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/node/1448