First, big respect for working on software for so many years!
My question is what data format is it using? I found some examples here [1], but looks like it's a custom binary format?
Is there a functionality to auto-export (e.g. on save) to plaintext (xml/json/whatever), so I could hook TreeSheets files to other apps? I appreciate it would be lossy, but even a tree/graph structure with text nodes would be good.
E.g. I'm a big fan of using plaintext search over all of my personal data/information, even in siloed apps [2]
TreeSheets tries to be highly efficient in space/time, which is challenging with text formats.
There's an option in the menus for auto html export on every save. It's what I use to browse my data from non-supported devices, e.g. mobile (thru e.g. DropBox).
Have you been exposed to Kaitai Struct[0] yet? As someone who wanted to use binary data from programs I’ve used it quite successfully and even more to the point: quite happily
Nope, not seen this one, though there are many similar such specification languages. This one looks a bit overly verbose?
I suppose someone could write a description of https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/blob/master/TS/docs/... in that specification language to give parsers in many languages. May not be as easy as it sounds with the embedded PNGs and compression etc.
Oh hey: your articles on journaling and using a search-first interface heavily inspired me a couple years back, and formed the basis of my own system, with which I’m very happy. So, thank you very much!
I don’t see any examples of data “deduplication” (a poor term used here to mean referring to the same data from multiple hierarchies, such as having a reference to the resume inside the row of people)
