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People use Leo in different ways... I used to use Leo for notes on everything I was working on. The killer feature for me was the tree outline pane could clone

People use Leo in different ways... I used to use Leo for notes on everything I was working on. The killer feature for me was the tree outline pane could clone nodes. So I could have one subtree of say Projects, another of say my Jira tickets, a third on Talks and Blog Posts. And then have clones of the current ones all together in a subtree called Current. I would adjust their order each morning as my prioritised To Do list for the day. More recently, I have tried switching to orgmode. Some aspects are great. But I really miss Leo's tree pane 'table of contents' and its clonable nodes.

methehack 8y ago
Not sure if it'll help but you might try the emacs package "Deft" w/org mode. I use Deft as a table of contents over a searchable directory of .org files and it works well for my purposes.
jadbox 8y ago
So you still use Leo or managed to switch to orgmode? I haven't used either, but have contemplating it. Currently, I'm using CherryTree, which is just okay.
- stevesimmons 8y ago
  I switched to orgmode. Mainly because I wanted to run the same core tools at work and at home. At work we are not allowed to run random software; every package needs to be registered, source security-tested, compiled from source in house, put in an internal repo, and then installed from there. So while at home I could do 'pip install leo', at work it was a mess of tracing dependencies (Qt), getting them registered, etc, etc. Plus at work, someone else had gone through this pain for Emacs and orgmode.
jadbox 8y ago
Just asking, why not just use a wiki-style note taking app instead?
- akaralar 8y ago
  Can you give examples of the apps you are asking about?
  - terminalcommand 8y ago
    A quick search lead me to a program called zim-wiki [1]. It looks simple enough to be easily learned. [1] http://www.zim-wiki.org http://www.zim-wiki.org
  - unhammer 8y ago
    http://zim-wiki.org/ http://zim-wiki.org/ is a simple but featureful and stable one. Put the files in a syncthing or dropbox folder for sync :)

methehack 8y ago

Not sure if it'll help but you might try the emacs package "Deft" w/org mode. I use Deft as a table of contents over a searchable directory of .org files and it works well for my purposes.

jadbox 8y ago

So you still use Leo or managed to switch to orgmode? I haven't used either, but have contemplating it. Currently, I'm using CherryTree, which is just okay.

stevesimmons 8y ago
I switched to orgmode. Mainly because I wanted to run the same core tools at work and at home. At work we are not allowed to run random software; every package needs to be registered, source security-tested, compiled from source in house, put in an internal repo, and then installed from there. So while at home I could do 'pip install leo', at work it was a mess of tracing dependencies (Qt), getting them registered, etc, etc. Plus at work, someone else had gone through this pain for Emacs and orgmode.

jadbox 8y ago

Just asking, why not just use a wiki-style note taking app instead?

akaralar 8y ago
Can you give examples of the apps you are asking about?
- terminalcommand 8y ago
  A quick search lead me to a program called zim-wiki [1]. It looks simple enough to be easily learned. [1] http://www.zim-wiki.org http://www.zim-wiki.org
- unhammer 8y ago
  http://zim-wiki.org/ http://zim-wiki.org/ is a simple but featureful and stable one. Put the files in a syncthing or dropbox folder for sync :)