| Friday night stream of consciousness... |
[Oct. 3rd, 2003|10:01 pm] |
I'm sitting here watching Stargate SG-1 and writing during the commercials. Broadband and laptops sure do make life nice.
I have started organizing my life a little better. I attribute it to a number of factors but in particular, I discovered Leo, an outline processor written in Python. It is really more than just an outline processor though. It has features that support literate programming in a number of different languages. In fact, Leo is itself developed using Leo.
One of the interesting features of Leo is the ability to clone nodes. It allows one to create several different views of the same information. For example, I have created a workspace outline that has a top level item called journal. Journal contains a node for each year (currently just 1993). The node 1993 contains nodes for each month and each month contains nodes for each day. As I write entries each day, I clone them and move the clones to other appropriate nodes in the tree. This has allowed me to organize my writing much more effectively than I used to. I can go one place to look for all of my notes. Did I mention that I can add Python functions in a similar fashion to emacs' elisp functions. It's a programming geek's dream.
I started reading Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver this week. So far it's outstanding. |
|
|
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
javajini's journal