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copy a subset of a notebook in another one

Asked by Thibault

I have started a notebook on a PC and I have written a page and sub pages which have subpages as well and I would like to copy the whole subset of my first notebook into another one I have started (on a usb stick but nevermind usb).

both notebooks have some content and I would like to avoid retyping everything knowing that the subset of first the first notebook would be a natural subset of the second one.

I have tried with export but it seems to work only for a page.

I tried to export the whole notebook and import it but you can only import a page

best regards happy new year

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Best Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg) said : 		#1

It's easy, just copy the file structure into to folder of the other
notebook and force an index update (usually restarting zim is enough, may
need "zim --index" to resolve if there is an issue).

See http://www.zim-wiki.org/manual/Help/Importing_external_files.html for
details on adding external text files to a notebook. Obviously if the files
are created by zim, they are already in the right format.

Regards,

Jaap

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Thibault <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> New question #242157 on Zim:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/zim/+question/242157
>
> I have started a notebook on a PC and I have written a page and sub pages
> which have subpages as well and I would like to copy the whole subset of my
> first notebook into another one I have started (on a usb stick but
> nevermind usb).
>
> both notebooks have some content and I would like to avoid retyping
> everything knowing that the subset of first the first notebook would be a
> natural subset of the second one.
>
> I have tried with export but it seems to work only for a page.
>
> I tried to export the whole notebook and import it but you can only import
> a page
>
> best regards happy new year
>
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> contact for Zim.
>

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Thibault (t-muchery) said : 		#2

thanks I'll give it a try (in the mean time I copied by hand)
but great so far Zim

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Thibault (t-muchery) said : 		#3

Thanks Jaap Karssenberg, that solved my question.

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mario bezzi (mbezzi) said : 		#4

Funny, I was about to ask the same question when I saw this. From a practical standpoint I am ok with the proposed solution, still I think it requires a geek's mindset. In my opinion it would be much better, and natural for non IT people, to have a zim function to do it without coping with zim's internal data structure (read files and direcories). By the way zim is great. Thanks.