[tomboy-list] Fwd: Semantic awareness?

[Pete Goodall]

Had the wrong CC originally....

See below.

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From: Pete Goodall <pete at yellowhouse.org>
Date: Apr 3, 2007 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: [tomboy-list] Semantic awareness?
To: Niklas Höglund <nhoglund at gmail.com>
Cc: Tomboy list <tomboy-list at beatniksoftware.com>


On 4/3/07, Niklas Höglund <nhoglund at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/04/07, David Prieto <frandavid100 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You see, I've been using Tomboy a lot lately. And wonderful as it is,
> > there is a big, big downside about it: links to existing notes are only
> > created when the entered text is exactly like the note's name, that is:
> > if one of my notes is called "school" any notes containing the word
> > "school" will link to it, but not notes containing the word "schools".
> >
> > This detracts from the program's usefulness, so I would like to know: Is
> > there a way to make tomboy semantically aware, that is to make it treat
> > "house" and "houses" as the same word instead of two separate, unrelated
> > entities?
>
> +1
>
> I've had the same problem, but with the names of people. If I were to
> write "Davids mail" in a note, it wouldn't link to a David note.
>
> I would be happy if I could just fix up links by selecting some text
> and selecting what note to link  it to.
>
> I'd also like to be able to use tomboy for bookmarks, by dragging
> URL:s to a note, but I think the text for a bookmark should start of
> as the title of that page, not the URL.
> _______________________________________________

Hi all,

I have to say that I would more agree with the ability to link some
text to a specific note.  Maybe it is just the simplistic nature of
the examples given, but in some cases you may not want to link to a
note of the same name (or similar).  For instance, a co-worker had a
note titled "CA" (for Computer Associates) and now everytime he writes
CA (as in the abbreviation for California) it links to that note.  I
can only imagine linking to similar names would increase this problem.
 However, the ability to link text to a specific note, rather than
only being able to create new notes or link to notes with the exact
same title, would be very hand.

That being said, Tomboy is intended to be a *simple* note-taking
program.  Are we making it too complicated?  That's more philosophical
though. ;-)

- Pete

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