And here I am thinking that I'd read / understood the manual.
*sigh*.  Thanks for the response, no matter how tardy it may be.  Time is relative anyways; when one considers all the crap I've done between having sent that note and now, it feels like no time at all has past. :)
Cheers.
Fil

On 11 February 2011 06:48, Bastien <bastien.guerry@wikimedia.fr> wrote:
Hi Filippo,

"Filippo A. Salustri" <salustri@ryerson.ca> writes:

> I have thought of a couple of ideas.  I wanted to bounce them off the
> community before thinking about trying to implement them myself (I
> used to be pretty good with lisp, a thousand years ago).

I used to reply faster to emails, a thousand years ago ;)

> 1. A bit more structure to page layout.
> In particular I was thinking of this:
> a. one file per day

You can do it.

> b. date and journal name at top

You can do it.

> c. a right "sidebar" of sorts that contains tags, dates, etc for the
> item to its left.  This amounts to basically a tabular page
> arrangement, and each "item" gets a row.

We don't have sidebars but we have the Great Column View.  Browsing
your file while in column view let's you display whatever information
you want about your entries.

HTH,

--
 Bastien



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