org-ql (https://github.com/alphapapa/org-ql) is also quite good for this kind of thing.
Here is even a database like query to find the heading, and EMAIL property from all the files in a list returned by the function nb-org-files. (org-ql-query :select '(cons (fifth (org-heading-components)) (org-entry-get (point) "EMAIL")) :from (nb-org-files) :where '(and (property "EMAIL"))) John ----------------------------------- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 8:25 AM Vikas Rawal <vikasra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > I don't know if I have missed something obvious. But I am trying to > > > read all the properties data (key-value pairs) into an R source code > > > block (essentially to gather into a data.frame before further > > > processing). > > > > You might want to look at `org-map-entries'. > > Thanks. It seems it will take more lisp than I can handle. But let me try. > > I think there is a potential to combine orgmode tags and properties, with > a little more lisp may be, along with version control to create small > database applications. > > It would be good to design something as a proof-of-concept. > > Vikas > >
