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From: science@nems.dt.navy.mil (Mark Zimmermann)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: emacs info hypertext notetaker?
Summary: query about using emacs 'info' to take and link notes hypertextlike
Keywords: emacs, info, hypertext, notetaking
Message-ID: <515@nems.dt.navy.mil>
Date: 8 Dec 89 03:04:13 GMT
Reply-To: science@nems.dt.navy.mil (Mark Zimmermann)
Organization: David Taylor Research Center, Carderock, MD
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I am looking for a way to take notes as I read, and to link those notes in
a simple hypertextual fashion ... my question is, can an adaptation or
extension of the emacs 'info' facility do what I need?

Specifically, I want to read mail, write, etc. in various windows (on
a Sun) and to take notes (possibly including copy/paste excerpts from the
other windows) ... main requirements are to be able to create a new 'note
card' easily, to put text in it, and to then link that 'card' into a structure
of other cards (perhaps with a key sequence meaning 'build a link from here
to there' or vice versa) ... and then, I need to be able to navigate around
following the links from 'card' to 'card' ....

Is it easy/hard/impossible to do this with emacs 'info'?  Please advise!
(Also, if there is some other way for me to take notes and link them
efficiently, pls tell me).  Tnx -- ^z -- science@nems.dt.navy.mil