November 21st, 2020

• Conor/Attention Blocks
• Roam Change Log
  • {{embed: Path Based Find or Create}}
    Will reference the last block in the path
    • Key Things to Know

      • Open by pressing Ctrl-Shift-9 aka Ctrl-( while focused on a block
      • Tab or Enter - will add an item to the path
      • Delete will move you back up the path
      • Enter (when there is no text in the search field)
        • Will reference the last block in the path
    • Use Cases::

      • Placing new items on another page, then referencing them in your current context
        • Without breaking flow
• Near Term Roadmap
  • {{TODO}} Improved Quick Capture
  • {{TODO}} CSS for custom display of block-children
• Conor
  • Log
    • 16:15
      • Roam Pairing with Bardia on CSS and [BEM]
        • Dropzone
          • {{kanban}}
            • Unseen
            • Seen
        • Goals::
          • {{TODO}} Introduce some of Roam Pairing process to folks
          • {{TODO}} Go through some of the LESS documentation - and see how I might use some of the helper stuff like variables to more systematically write class names.
          • {{TODO}} Map out some of the BEM things for our class
        • Help Resources::
          • [[Roam::BEM]]
        • Items to map out
          • [[Roam::BEM]] of Block Controls
            16:15 - 16:24 (9 min)

            Planning

            • setup
          • BEM components
          • Controls
            B
            • Expand
              B

              or

              E
              • current::
                • block-expand
            • Bullet
              B
              • E
              • Bullet Inner
                E

              • <span class="simple-bullet-outer cursor-pointer" draggable="true"\><span class="simple-bullet-inner"\></span\></span\>
                

        • Sublog
          • 16:15 - 16:24 (9 min)
            Planning
            • setup
          • 16:25 - 16:27
          • • 16:30
            • figuring out zoom stuff
          • 16:30 - 17:17
            • Focus area
              • [[Roam::BEM]] of Block Controls

                16:15 - 16:24 (9 min)

                Planning

                • setup
            • • 16:39
            • 16:39 - 16:41
              • !!Choice Conor

                • {{TODO}} Choice
                  • Options::
                  • Decision::
                • {{TODO}} Choice Name of the Block
                  • Options::
                  • Decision::
            • Tangent Meta (20 min)
              • 16:53 - 17:03 (10 min)
                • One of the things I've been playing around with is the idea of tagging each item with whether they are B, E, or M
                  • Why
                    • Will totally affect their naming convention
                  • What's missing?
                    • Whether the class actually is sensible at all - or whether it is something that might not actually be a sensible container to exist.
                • My first approach here was to go with block references - since it seems like these B, E, M are really only locally defined
                  • Even with the new Path Based Find or Create - this is too slow
                    • What I really want is to locally define the Text Expansion Templates so that I am able to reference the blocks with ;m ;b ;e and have it put out the relevant item - in this case a block ref
                • Previous approach had been to use Namespaced Pages - but that approach - even when using the styling BEM/Element or BEM/E feels both wrong and too slow.
                • Takeaways
                  • What I really want is to locally define the Text Expansion Templates so that I am able to reference the blocks with ;m ;b ;e and have it put out the relevant item - in this case a block ref
              • 17:03 - 17:11 (7 min)
                • What I really want is to locally define the Text Expansion Templates so that I am able to reference the blocks with ;m ;b ;e and have it put out the relevant item - in this case a block ref
                  • Idea - the thing that I've been sort of feeling as I play with this just now
                    • Particular this area {{embed:
                      Types

                      • B
                      • E
                      • M
                      }}
                      • 
                    • Is that I want to be able to either
                      • Workflows
                      • Drag the block directly into another block - to apply it as a tag
                      • Turn the block into a sort of stamp
                    • Map a choice of any of those three across a whole tree of the things I had laid out.
              • 17:11 - 17:14 (3 min)
                • Copy Paste related Feature Requests Inspired by
                  Map a choice of any of those three across a whole tree of the things I had laid out.
                  - which refs a block on Algorithms of Thought
                  • {{TODO}} I wish when I copied a block - when it included a reference to something on a another page - when I pasted it in - I brought all the content that was neccessary along with it (created the new page)
                    • Footgun - really we should be setting things up so that when you copy paste between dbs - you link to the other db
                      • False - you still want a local copy of your own - even if it is linked to the other one - and this should at least be a prompt
                        • Bring the whole trail of nested items....
          • 17:17 - 17:28 (11 min)
            • Tangent on the use of {{or: }} in here
              • If you set the or up
                • test {{or:
                  a
                  | a}}
                  • a
          • • 17:33
            • Decision Tree::

              • Can this 34QwDb7y0 live entirely on its own?
                • {{or: class|descriptor|entity}}
              • Example::
                • WO6EpHhDc
                  • RFS5MSf6U
          • 17:41
            • [[MindBEMding - getting your head around Bem syntax]]

              • .rm-block .rm--heading {
                   .rm-block__children {
                     .rm-block__bullet {
                       margin-right: -12px;
                       opacity: 0;
                     }
                  }
                }
                
                

              • {{TODO}} Choice Are elements ever sub-elements in BEM - or is it just always single level of hierarchy?

                • Specific Instance::
                  • Is it .rm-block__controls__bullet

                  • .rm-block
                        .rm-block__controls
                            .rm-caret
                            .rm-bullet
                                .rm-bullet__outer
                                .rm-bullet__inner
                                
                    

                    • If you for instance had .rm-bullet--version or .rm-bullet--user-icon .rm-bullet--read-status
• Bardia
  • Log
    • Roam Pairing with [Conor]
      • Dropzone {{kanban}}
        • Unseen
        • Seen
      • What's the most important component you want to BEM first?
      • [[Roam::BEM]] of {{kanban}}
        • .kanban
          B
          • .kanban__column
            E
            • .kanban__column__title
              E
            • .kanban__card
              E
          • kanban--hint
            M
            , actually should be
            E
      • [[Roam::BEM]] of right sidebar
        • .right-sidebar
          B
          • .right-sidebar--animating
            M
      • Tangent
        • I think the criteria of whether or not something is a BEM/Block vs BEM/Element is whether or not that thing ever can live in isolation outside of the block
      • Tangent
        • My spacemacs crashes when I try to delete too many lines of code at once with the vim command nd
      • [[Roam::BEM]] of block
        • .rm-block
          B
          • .controls
            B
            *
            • .controls__expand
              E
              *
          • .rm-block__bullet
            B
            *
            • .rm-block__bullet__inner
              E
              *
            • .rm-block__bullet__outer
              E
            • controls__bullet--version
              M
          • .block__ctx-menu
            • block
      • If the node can live on its own then it is a block
  • Timestamps
    • 19:15-