[om-list] organising and creating textual information

[OneModel general list]

I've been thinking of doing something for information capture and 
storage in the area of fiction writing specifically, and in general as 
an idea organizer.

That said, I still have no idea what your system actually *does* as 
opposed to what you'd like it to do.

Currently I seem to be using markdown to write notes and link them 
together, though I find myself following links manually because most  
of the time I'm reading the markdown file in emacs instead of the html 
file in a browser.

I have made various notes scattererd around my file system in this 
direction, though I haven't committed anything much to code yet.

I have two constraints on what I adopt:

(1) It has to be compatible with distributed revision control (I use 
monotone for this, the same issues arise with just about every such 
system, including git)

(2) It has to be able to express mathematics.  (markdown has plugins 
that interpret Latex, though you need different plugins if you're 
generating html or pdf).

If you like, I could scrounge around my file system and collect the 
relevant ideas.  (this scrounging around is exactly what I want this 
system for, of course)

-- hendrik