Hi all. I've been wanting to do something with infoqube for a while, but can't seem to get my head around how to proceed, so I thought I may as well throw it out there and see if anyone's got more imagination than I. I use infoqube to take notes for my dissertation. I have a main grid with all my primary sources, and then I hoist each source as I work on it. My problem is that I have two different types of entries that I don't know how to combine: structural entries and note entries. In terms of structure, I like to expand each source into its main chapters as subitems, and then expand each of these subitems into their sections or arguments. But then I have a parallel interest in wanting to expand each item into notes on that very section. Sometimes this proceeds smoothly, namely when notes are on a given section which has no sub-sections. But when a section/argument has subsections, but I want to record notes on the section itself and not on its subsections, then I'm screwed, because I end up with a structural item which expands into subitems mixed in with notes. This is complicated by the fact that sometimes I like to have hierachical notes (ie, themselves outlined into expandable headings), but at the very least would like to have multiple notes connected to a single item in a way that is as easily browsable as the main outline. Creating a field for each separate note doesn't make sense to me. What I need is expandability in two dimensions, if you know what I mean. Any suggestions?
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Query 1 | Query 2
| Todos
item like "A*" | Todos
| Todos OR notes
The first part will be applied to main items and the second part to sub-items. An example of this, you can have main items showing contacts and filter sub-items to only show phone calls to those contacts, all other (non phone call related) sub-items will not be shown (notes, correspondence, projects, etc).
MainFilter | SubItemsFilter
MainFilter |
| SubItemsFilter
Note also that as soon as you insert the "|" symbol, it overrides the "apply filter to subitems" option/button and will apply whatever you wrote in the filter text box.
IDItem =
your IDitem| SubItemFilter
(any criteria you want here to filter your sub items)