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Written by Yncke on 2025-01-24 at 09:50

I'm looking for something to make reference cards. (Context: I don't know much about plants, so I want to make cards with info like "doesn't like being turned around", "water once a month during winter" and "needs repotting every three years" for my potted plants.) Not dissimilar to DnD spell or animal form reference cards, I guess. An image, some icons in fixed places, a text area. Maybe a colour coded calendar.

I'm thinking about something that has a simple text 'database' file (yaml, json, whatever), with the info I want on the cards, and then some way of generating the cards. (So that if I have extra info I want to add, I can just regenerate them.)

I'm pretty sure someone out there already made something like that, but I'm not sure in what direction to search. A #LaTeX style? Some #ImageMagick scripting? Ingenious hocus pocus with #Scribus? A plugin for #Krita? There's so many ways you could achieve something like this.

Is there anyone who knows of something like this, or similar enough that I can adapt it to do something like this?

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Written by Antoine on 2025-01-25 at 09:09

@yncke

Hello, you can use Scribus and ScribusGenerator with a csv. file.

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Written by HHG²TG¼²° on 2025-01-25 at 10:02

@yncke

I wouldn't put too much information into an image file. Only as much as is necessary for the good survival of a potted plant, then embed this file in a text editor such as "CherryTree" and add other important and useful information, graphics and the like in Markdown style. Exported to HTML format or/and as a PDF, you can then do everything, for example print it out, integrate it into your own potted plant wiki as a website and then make it available to me ^^ and others here in the #fediverse and on #mastodon (my potted plants need it. urgently for you to advise me, can you hear them calling for help yet?) for a wiki I warmly recommend https://writefreely.org/ or https://rant.li/ where you can enter the html code created by CherryTree, post it, link it and do much more. These hosting services are part of the #fediverse and are therefore decentralized. >> To be continued if you want to know more of my ideas to make a customized image

[#]images #help

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Written by Yncke on 2025-01-25 at 16:35

@toot I wasn't really planning on going all that deep. :) For your own potted plants, @Julianoe mentioned https://howmanyplants.com , which looks a bit like what you're suggesting wiki wise. (Also, you don't want my advise for potted plants. My amaryllis is currently flowering like mad. Mid winter. I don't have a clue why.)

Thanks for the suggestions for those wiki's though. Good to know, maybe suitable for another project I'm brooding on.

Agreed that you don't want to put too much info in an image, but I think that going via ScribusGenerator is an interesting path, because I suspect it will allow for using vectors instead of images. And it has export to PDF support, at first glance.

You mention markdown as a way to generate that image, but it was my impression that markdown doesn't really give much control of where things are positioned. I've never heard of CherryTree. Does it give more control over the layouting of markdown?

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Written by HHG²TG¼²° on 2025-01-25 at 18:37

@yncke

Hello,

no with Markdown you cannot generate or convert image files, with "Markdown Style" I only mean the more detailed text under your image files, that is, with headings in different fonts, sub -points, tables, graphics and the like. A note editor such as CherryTree on Linux and Windows offers these options very comfortably look here:

https://myownsys.com/2024/12/04/cherrytree-the-open-source-note-taking-powerhouse-for-building-your-knowledge-system/

https://github.com/giuspen/cherrytree

https://giuspen.net/cherrytreemanual/#_introduction

For the organization of text within your image files, I can recommend programs such as "GIMP" under Linux "Unfortunately, I have not used Windows or MacOS for a long time, so I cannot give you the corresponding alternatives. ImageMagick is fantastic when you are merged with your terminal emulator and dare to beat yourself through the somewhat impenetrable and confusing documentation Jungle ;) it has "magick"

options but is a nerdy thing.

Sorry if I went a bit far with the "wiki idea", but if you're already doing the work, why not include possible future options? CherryTree offers you the option to export to HTML and PDF. And with that you would be able to publish the result of your painstaking work :D (just by the way)

CherryTree also offers you the opportunity to arrange your work hierarchically in plant species -families and so on ..

If CherryTree's interface is still too nerdy for you, you might want to take a look at https://logseq.com/ ..

hoping this was useful and with kind regards

HHG²TG¼²°

[#]imagemagick #unix #linux #windows #macos #ios #foss #floss #opensource

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Written by Julianoë on 2025-01-25 at 10:27

@yncke

@antoine never seen something similar to what you describe but have you seen this superb website: https://howmanyplants.com/

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