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Posted by Lucine
Mar 14, 2023 at 02:08 PM
So I found the name of the concept I was trying to describe: layering. Basically, I wanted each level to be a separate layer, but even that was inaccurate, what I wanted was multiple layers where each one has a different function. For example, one layer has comments I made on this day, another layer has comments I made on another day. And each layer can contain multiple lines of a single level, whereas before I had conceptualized it as 1 level = 1 line = 1 layer.
This is the software which works with layers and how I discovered the name for the concept:
Unfortunately it’s only on Mac.
Posted by Amontillado
Mar 14, 2023 at 04:15 PM
That’s a pretty cool idea. I bet you could do something similar with Dataview in Obsidian, or with a map of content in almost anything.
The layers concept sounds a little like versioning, although I assume in scriptation you can re-edit any layer without having to fork like you would in a version control system.
I should repress this, but today I have a new hammer. Everything looks like a nail. Curio supports layers, but probably not like what you’re looking for.
Objects (figures) exist on a layer. You can reorder the layers, set visibility, enable layer export, and layers can be merged, although not with a single command. Select a layer, command-A, command-X, select another layer, command-V. Then you can delete the now empty layer if you want.
Lucine wrote:
So I found the name of the concept I was trying to describe: layering.
>Basically, I wanted each level to be a separate layer, but even that was
>inaccurate, what I wanted was multiple layers where each one has a
>different function. For example, one layer has comments I made on this
>day, another layer has comments I made on another day. And each layer
>can contain multiple lines of a single level, whereas before I had
>conceptualized it as 1 level = 1 line = 1 layer.
>
>This is the software which works with layers and how I discovered the
>name for the concept:
>
>https://scriptation.com/
>
>Unfortunately it’s only on Mac.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 15, 2023 at 10:01 AM
It is a cool idea. And indeed, I suspect you could probably do it in Obsidian using various plugins (maybe Mark as well as Dataview).