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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Apr 10, 2012 at 07:19 PM
Thank you for the nice comments, Dr Andus.
S
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Apr 11, 2012 at 01:42 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
>I guess the trouble with getting my head around
>Attributes is that it is such a flexible feature that I need to see some concrete
>examples before it begins to make sense.
Here’s a concrete example that just occurred to me (by which I’m not implying that it hasn’t occurred to many others before):
I’ve got a project (CT-speak for database) for my contacts. I’ve been struggling with how to include correspondence, whether to just append e-mail and phone conversation notes to the topic for individual contacts or to add new topics for each communication. I think our discussion of attributes helped me decide on the latter approach. Here’s how it works—
I’ve created a template for “correspondence.” It has just two lines of code:
[[$CATEGORY: correspondence ]]\\
From: [[From:= contact’s name]]
When I create a new topic for a communication, I start the title with the date and then add the contact’s name. Then I put the contact’s name in the “From” attribute, being sure to duplicate the way that contact’s main topic is named. This will then add any link’s with the From attribute for a specific contact to that contact’s main topic, as demonstrated in this screen capture:
Simple but very useful.
Steve Z.
Posted by Dr Andus
Apr 11, 2012 at 03:49 PM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Here’s a concrete example that just occurred to me (by which
>I’m not implying that it hasn’t occurred to many others before):
>
>I’ve got a project
>(CT-speak for database) for my contacts. I’ve been struggling with how to include
>correspondence, whether to just append e-mail and phone conversation notes to the
>topic for individual contacts or to add new topics for each communication. I think our
>discussion of attributes helped me decide on the latter approach. Here’s how it works
>—
>
>I’ve created a template for “correspondence.” It has just two lines of
>code:
>
>[[$CATEGORY: correspondence ]]\\
>From: [[From:= contact’s name]]
>
>When
>I create a new topic for a communication, I start the title with the date and then add the
>contact’s name. Then I put the contact’s name in the “From” attribute, being sure to
>duplicate the way that contact’s main topic is named. This will then add any link’s
>with the From attribute for a specific contact to that contact’s main topic, as
>demonstrated in this screen capture:
>
>http://db.tt/5pDhPnAu
Thanks, Steve, very helpful, as usual.
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Apr 25, 2012 at 04:52 PM
Steve and Dr Andus, thank you so much for the time you each took to help me understand Connected Text. I’ve been trying to work with CT, and your instruction was very much part of it. However, after spending many hours, I hate to say that somehow I’m not putting it all together so it can work for me. Having said that, I am convinced still that the problem is *not* the software, but my own way of understanding.
For anyone who less obtuse than myself when it comes to CT, I have no doubt they’ll find it an excellent and flexible program.
Thanks again.
Daly
Posted by Nhaps
Nov 6, 2013 at 02:33 AM
Dr Andus wrote:
Steve,
>
>It seems to be a common enough complaint from non-techie, non-programmer
>humanities-types like me that it is difficult to get an initial
>understanding of what CT can do and how to get started with it, as the
>CT help file is just a bit too advanced in its language and explanation.
>Even though after the initial hurdle CT is surprisingly easy to use even
>for a beginner (which I still am). Yet I think that a lot of
>non-programmer, humanities-types would get very excited about CT once
>they understand it, just like they tend to do when they discover
>Scrivener.
Right on the money. Good CT tutorials are few, hard to find.