@Jemarch: I don't like having a big text file for reference, I have tried it before and the file got so big that emacs started having troubles rendering it. At that time, however, I was using a previous version of emacs and org, and I probably didn't compiled org, so, the rendering problems might just have been a isolated issue.
Thanks for sharing your experiences, Marcelo. On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa < celose...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Bernt, > > I liked your self-contained approach, and I will try implementing it in my > workflow. Org does not stop amazing me on how flexible it is :) > > However, the value of having a wiki is also great IMO. It has a workflow > similar to tomboy (each new org file acts as a new tomboy note) I don't have > to think too much when creating a wiki page (just type > TheNameOfTheSubject.org, save it and begin typing, they are in a central > location (a wiki folder) and they are a great place to register knowledge > data. > > I don't know, that might be because I used WikiDPad for a long time on my > Windows days and loved its approach (Two things that org lacks as a > wiki-system, which is a way to view the wiki in a tree format and > automatically create links based on files in the filesystem or camelcase. > Not big deal features, but something that could be contributed as a org > extension - I would do it if I had the elisp knowledge to do so :)) > > Regards, > > Marcelo. > > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Bernt Hansen <be...@norang.ca> wrote: > >> Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celose...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > Information that has no potential next action associated but that >> > still has potential reference value and that you'd like to keep >> > around, how and where do you keep it ? >> > >> > I usually check - if it is related to a project, I put it in this >> > project's wiki page (a simple .org ASCII file named after the project >> > under ~/org/wiki folder). If it's not, I try to find out if there's a >> > wiki page that I could fit it into, if not, I create a new file under >> > the wiki folder. >> > >> > I used to use tomboy, but I'm trying to move/center all my data to my >> > org folder. I still use Tomboy for quick notes (collection-phase) >> > though, but not for reference. >> > >> > I then have a simple function that searches (rgrep) through the whole >> > ~/org folder, so that whenever I want to check if I have something >> > about subject x, I just rgrep my PIM folder. >> > >> > ;;a little elisp func to rgrep through all my org directory >> > (defun org-rgrep (REGEXP1) "Searches through all my org/PIM files" >> (interactive "sSearch PIM for: ") >> > (rgrep REGEXP1 "*.org" "/home/marcelo/org" )) >> > ;;bind the previous function to windows_key + o >> > (global-set-key [?\s-o] 'org-rgrep) >> > >> > Would you mind sharing how you do it? >> >> Hi Marcelo, >> >> I keep all my notes in .org files. Some of these are dedicated for >> reference documentation only and may be exported to other formats for >> consumption by others. A good example of this is my org-mode document >> at http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html. >> >> Reference material that does not end up in a dedicated document lives in >> an org file without a TODO keyword and with a tag of NOTE. Where it >> resides is solely based on content. >> >> If it's part of a project task it gets filed under the project >> somewhere. This is normally project-related notes that don't make sense >> to keep outside the project. If the project is archived using archive >> by subtree the notes go with it. >> >> If it's general information related to an org file I file it under a >> level 1 * Notes entry in the appropriate org file. If the org file is >> included in my org-agenda-files I can locate the notes easily with an >> agenda search. If I drop the file from org-agenda-files then the notes >> for that file are also dropped on agenda searches. The notes are >> forever available in the .org file. >> >> Finally as a last resort notes go as a level 2 entry in todo.org under >> the level 1 * Notes entry. >> >> HTH, >> Bernt >> >> >> >
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