icon per page

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:30 AM, vpl-profess
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> Just starting using Zim which looks promissing. Thanks for this great job !
> I'm wondering if their is a way / plan to assign icon per page. This is a visual commodity that is sometime available on other Note taker tools.

No there is not. So far I have not found a good use case why we should
support it.

Most time these kind of icons are used to "tag" pages. But this is
handled in zim in another way with the tags plugin.

-- Jaap

Hi Jaap,

I am using tags too, but for me this is more a visual aid. Icons would make it easier to quickly find your way within a notebook with many open notes and sub-notes. I store information of projects as well as notes with how-to. The latter are notes relevant across projects.

At any moment, I may have several notes and sub-notes, sub-sub-notes, etc. open. In such cases, simple icons (different fonts could be another option), would make it easier to quickly find my way within the hierarchy of notes.

So do you think about icons showing the tags, or do you have other uses as well?

On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 9:01 AM, pvanb
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> Question #198176 on Zim changed:
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> pvanb posted a new comment:
> Hi Jaap,
>
> I am using tags too, but for me this is more a visual aid. Icons would
> make it easier to quickly find your way within a notebook with many open
> notes and sub-notes. I store information of projects as well as notes
> with how-to. The latter are notes relevant across projects.
>
> At any moment, I may have several notes and sub-notes, sub-sub-notes,
> etc. open. In such cases, simple icons (different fonts could be another
> option), would make it easier to quickly find my way within the
> hierarchy of notes.
>
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Icons showing the tags would be a nice option. But I see more then one use:

My main way of organizing and finding notes in (some of) my notebooks is using the tree structure. Zim is great in doing this (I see tags and tree structure as complementary ways of organizing my data). However, with a very large tree with many sub-levels, being able to assign icons to notes would make it easier to navigate, e.g., by using the same icon for the same level in the tree hierarchy.

Let me give an example: I keep the meta-data of all my spatial databases in a Zim notebook. Each spatial database is divided in several thematic groups (e.g., land use data, climatic data, etc). Within each of this group, I have different data layers. These data layers could be raster layers or vector layers.

* I use tags to tag 'rasters', 'vector layers', 'non-spatial data'. This allows me to quickly filter out a specific data type.
* I use the folder / note structure to mimic the struture of my database, e.g., one note per database, one sub-note per theme, and one sub-sub-note per data layer, something like:

Database 1
   + Theme 1
         + Data layer 1
         + Data layer 2
   + Theme 2
         + etc.

I would like to be able to asign icons to specific levels of nodes (e.g., the same icons for all themes). But I also would like to give a specific icon indicating the data type. Same use as tags you might say, but I think they serve different purposes. The icon gives me a quick overview of all the types of layers within a theme or database. The tag function allows me to filter a specific data type out.

So, in short, one may use icons the same ways as tags, but I think more often they would offer a complementary way of organizing, recognizing and finding data.