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  62 <h1 class="chapter"> 1. Introduction </h1>
  63
  64 <p>What is notes-mode and why should you (perhaps) use it?
  65 </p>
  66 <table class="menu" border="0" cellspacing="0">
  67 <tr><td align="left" valign="top"><a href="#SEC2">1.1 What is it?</a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">
  68 </td></tr>
  69 <tr><td align="left" valign="top"><a href="#SEC3">1.2 Why keep notes at all?</a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">
  70 </td></tr>
  71 <tr><td align="left" valign="top"><a href="#SEC4">1.3 Why keep notes on-line?</a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">
  72 </td></tr>
  73 <tr><td align="left" valign="top"><a href="#SEC5">1.4 Why use notes-mode?</a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">
  74 </td></tr>
  75 <tr><td align="left" valign="top"><a href="#SEC6">1.5 Y2K Statement</a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">
  76 </td></tr>
  77 <tr><td align="left" valign="top"><a href="#SEC7">1.6 Related work</a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">
  78 </td></tr>
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 100 <td valign="middle" align="left">[<a href="notes-mode_abt.html#SEC_About" title="About (help)"> ? </a>]</td>
 101 </tr></table>
 102 <h2 class="section"> 1.1 What is it? </h2>
 103
 104 <p>Notes-mode is an indexing system for on-line note-taking.
 105 Notes-mode is composed of two parts, the visible part,
 106 a major-mode for emacs to aid note-taking;
 107 and the invisible part,
 108 scripts which periodically index your notes for you.
 109 </p>
 110 <p>Note that notes-mode provides tools to <em>index</em> your notes,
 111 not to <em>search</em> them.
 112 (Other existing tools such as &lsquo;<tt>grep</tt>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<tt>agrep</tt>&rsquo;, and &lsquo;<tt>glimpse</tt>&rsquo;
 113 already allow file search.)
 114 </p>
 115 <p>A digression about indexing vs. searching:
 116 Indexing in this sense means
 117 organize them according to categories you give,
 118 while searching looks through all text for arbitrary strings.
 119 Drawing on the World Wide Web for examples,
 120 Yahoo (&lsquo;<tt>http://www.yahoo.com/</tt>&rsquo;) is an index,
 121 while Alta Vista (&lsquo;<tt>http://www.altavista.digital.com/</tt>&rsquo;)
 122 is a search-engine.
 123 In (potentially) more familiar terms,
 124 the yellow pages
 125 <a name="DOCF1" href="notes-mode_fot.html#FOOT1">(1)</a>
 126 are an index,
 127 while directory information (411 in the USA)
 128 is sort of a search-engine.
 129 </p>
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 149 </tr></table>
 150 <h2 class="section"> 1.2 Why keep notes at all? </h2>
 151
 152 <p>So why should you use notes-mode?
 153 Well, first, consider why you should (perhaps)
 154 keep your notes on line.
 155 First,
 156 I assume that you take notes as part of your work or school.
 157 If you don't,
 158 you can stop reading now and go back to watching TV.
 159 </p>
 160 <p>If you keep notes, ask yourself why you keep them.
 161 Reasons vary for different people, but some include:
 162 </p>
 163 <ul>
 164 <li>
 165 To remember what is said or done.
 166
 167 </li><li>
 168 To focus on what is important about what is said.
 169
 170 </li><li>
 171 To provide proof of having done something
 172 at a particular time or date.
 173
 174 </li><li>
 175 I know there were other reasons here,
 176 but they slipped my mind.
 177 </li></ul>
 178
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 199 <h2 class="section"> 1.3 Why keep notes on-line? </h2>
 200
 201 <p>OK, I've talked you into keeping notes.
 202 Why do it on-line?
 203 Again, there are different reasons for different people.
 204 If you don't want to consider keeping your notes on-line,
 205 you're welcome to go back to your (clay tablets)
 206 paper notes.
 207 </p>
 208 <p>However, if you do much of your work on-line,
 209 or if you have portable computer,
 210 then you might want to consider keeping your notes on-line.
 211 </p>
 212 <ul>
 213 <li>
 214 It's faster to type than write,
 215 and possibly more legible at high speed.
 216
 217 </li><li>
 218 Often information is already on-line.
 219 For example, in software development, bug reports,
 220 measurement results, and everything else that's useful
 221 is on-line.
 222
 223 </li><li>
 224 You can take down more detail than you otherwise would
 225 (especially if the data is already on-line).
 226 Taking more copious notes can be helpful when you go back
 227 to figure out why that strange thing was happening.
 228
 229 </li><li>
 230 On-line notes are easy to search.
 231 Full-text search with
 232 grep, agrep, and glimpse are all much faster
 233 and are often more accurate than paging through paper notes
 234 looking for a particular keyword.
 235
 236 </li><li>
 237 On-line notes are easy to index.
 238 (At least with notes-mode!)
 239 In addition to full-text search,
 240 it's helpful to organize notes by category.
 241 If you keep a table-of-contents of your paper notes,
 242 you are either extremely fastidious
 243 or a librarian (Nadia?).
 244
 245 </li><li>
 246 You can keep all of your notes with you at all times
 247 (if you have a portable computer).
 248 Even at a page a day,
 249 paper notes quickly become bulky and awkward to carry around.
 250 On-line notes fit on your computer's hard disk,
 251 an extraordinarily compact medium
 252 by comparison.
 253
 254 </li><li>
 255 Your notes can be automatically backed up.
 256 Paper notes can become damaged with time,
 257 and as a graduate student
 258 one of my fears was fire in Boelter Hall
 259 consuming all my research experiments
 260 and and therefore hopes of a degree.
 261 Electronic notes are extremely easy to duplicate
 262 and can be automatically backed up with the rest of your computer.
 263 (You <em>do</em> back up your computer, don't you?)
 264
 265 </li></ul>
 266
 267 <p>While these advantages are undoubtedly clear to any
 268 right-thinking computer user,
 269 it should be said that there are a few disadvantages
 270 for on-line note-taking.
 271 </p>
 272 <ul>
 273 <li>
 274 If you don't have a computer with you most of the time,
 275 it's difficult take notes on-line (because you're off-line, of course).
 276 <a name="DOCF2" href="notes-mode_fot.html#FOOT2">(2)</a>
 277
 278 </li><li>
 279 Computers require power.
 280 If your portable computer runs out of juice,
 281 you're on your own.
 282 Corollary:  watch your power, or bring paper.
 283 Better corollary:  watch your power, <em>and</em> bring paper.
 284
 285 </li><li>
 286 Social limitations.
 287 It's not always socially acceptable to take notes-on-line.
 288 For example,
 289 at a party,
 290 few people would use a computer
 291 to take down the phone number of a person
 292 to whom they're attracted
 293 (at least, if they wanted the attraction to be mutual).
 294 <a name="DOCF3" href="notes-mode_fot.html#FOOT3">(3)</a>
 295 Sometimes other people find the sound of typing distracting.
 296
 297 </li><li>
 298 Health issues.
 299 Repetitive stress injuries do occur
 300 writing (slower) by hand is at least
 301 an alternate motion than typing.
 302
 303 </li><li>
 304 Legal limitations.
 305 If you want to use your electronic notes
 306 to justify a patent or invention,
 307 you may be breaking legal ground.
 308 Being on the legal cutting-edge is rarely an easy thing
 309 for the person involved.<a name="DOCF4" href="notes-mode_fot.html#FOOT4">(4)</a>
 310
 311 </li></ul>
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 333 <h2 class="section"> 1.4 Why use notes-mode? </h2>
 334
 335 <p>OK, I've sold you on note-taking and even on on-line note-taking.
 336 What about notes-mode?
 337 Naturally,
 338 it slices, dices, and makes julienne fries.
 339 But wait, there's more:
 340 </p>
 341 <ul>
 342 <li>
 343 It automates indexing your notes,
 344 linking notes with the same subject together.
 345
 346 </li><li>
 347 It supports embedded links,
 348 allowing you to manually link together different topics
 349 and external files.
 350
 351 </li><li>
 352 It includes a number of convenience-features in emacs.
 353 Subjects can be completed based on existing subjects.
 354 The usual emacs customization mechanisms are available.
 355
 356 </li><li>
 357 Notes containing sensitive information can be encrypted.
 358
 359 </li><li>
 360 Notes-mode seems better than the other, currently available alternatives.
 361 </li></ul>
 362
 363 <p>What are the alternatives?  I'm glad you asked.
 364 <a name="DOCF5" href="notes-mode_fot.html#FOOT5">(5)</a>
 365 </p>
 366 <ul>
 367 <li>
 368 <strong>HTML</strong>.
 369 HTML has better formatting capabilities than notes-mode,
 370 and it has excellent linking capabilities.
 371 Unfortunately,
 372 HTML's tags are fairly intrusive
 373  (each is at least four characters long and most come with a pair),
 374  tags can get confused with normal text,
 375  errors in HTML can be bad (obscuring data),
 376  and there's no automatic indexing feature
 377  (at least with plain HTML).
 378 Besides,
 379  all data should be kept as close to the ASCII from whence it came,
 380  as God Intended (hi, Steve).
 381
 382 </li><li>
 383 <strong>Word Processors</strong>.
 384 Word processors are strong in the formatting department,
 385  but most don't really have linking capabilities,
 386  and have poor or restricted indexing.
 387
 388 </li></ul>
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 409 <h2 class="section"> 1.5 Y2K Statement </h2>
 410
 411 <p>Notes mode uses dates extensively,
 412  both two-digit years and seconds-since-1970.
 413 However, notes-mode has been coded to function correctly through
 414  the year 2038.
 415 </p>
 416 <p>To avoid problems with the year 2000, notes-mode assumes
 417  that any two-digit years before &ldquo;70&rdquo; are 20xx, not 19xx.
 418 Notes-mode should therefore work correctly in both the year 1999 and 2000.
 419 </p>
 420 <p>(Notes-mode 1.17 released February 1999 fixes a lingering Y2K problem.)
 421 </p>
 422 <p>Because notes-mode uses seconds-since-1970 for some date calculations
 423  it will fail beyond the year 2038 on computers with 32-bit integers.
 424 </p>
 425 <p>If I'm still using notes-mode then on a 32-bit machine I'll see what I can do.
 426 </p>
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 447 <h2 class="section"> 1.6 Related work </h2>
 448
 449 <p>What would a document be without related work?
 450 </p>
 451 <p>Notes-mode is not related in any way to Lotus Notes.
 452 </p>
 453 <p>I am told (by David Weisman)
 454  that it's something like the now defunct Lotus Agenda.
 455 </p>
 456 <p>Ashvin Goel, one of the contributors to notes-mode,
 457  has gone off and done a from-scratch reimplementation
 458  called records-mode.
 459 It's very similar to notes mode,
 460  and emphasizes on-the-fly updates to entry links
 461  but lacks a manual.
 462 You may want to check it out at
 463  &lsquo;<tt>http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~ashvin/software.html</tt>&rsquo;.
 464 </p>
 465 <p>Hyperbole (by Bob Weiner) offers better linking facilities
 466 than notes-mode, but it has a bunch of stuff notes-mode doesn't need
 467 and it's missing notes-specific indexing provided by notes-mode.
 468 For people already using Hyperbole
 469  it would be interesting to replace notes-mode's linking
 470  with Hyperbole's.
 471 Contributions in this area are welcome, provided they make Hyperbole
 472  optional.
 473 </p>
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 493 <h2 class="section"> 1.7 Staying on top </h2>
 494
 495 <p>The most recent distribution of notes-mode
 496  is always available via
 497  &lsquo;<tt>http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/SOFTWARE/NOTES_MODE/</tt>&rsquo;.
 498 </p>
 499 <p>After you've installed notes mode you're encouraged to subscribe
 500 to the mailing lists.
 501 To subscribe, go to the web page
 502 Send the message &quot;subscribe&quot; to
 503 &lsquo;<tt>http://www.heidemann.la.ca.us/mailman/listinfo/notes-mode-announce</tt>&rsquo; or
 504 &lsquo;<tt>http://www.heidemann.la.ca.us/mailman/listinfo/notes-mode-talk</tt>&rsquo;.
 505 </p>
 506 <p>The announce list will contain only release announcements
 507 and so is guaranteed to be very low bandwidth.
 508 </p>
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