Ross A. Laird <r...@rosslaird.info> wrote: > > I'm sure there are many ways in org to accomplish my goal with this > particular project, which is to create a ranking system for items. > Here's the situation: I have about 200 items that I am evaluating. I > need each item to have a title, a tag, a note, and a ranking from 0 to > 5. Then, I need to be able to sort the items by rank, with items ranked > 5 at the top. I know that I can do this using tables in org, but I > prefer the flexibility of headings (some of the items might have long > notes attached to them, or links, or whatever). Also, I don't think I > can tag individual cells in a table, or operate on cells the way I can > with headings in org (move, refile, show and hide, etc.). So, I'm > looking for something that will allow me to have the best of worlds: > flexibility as with headings, and numerical sorting as with table cells. >
Properties, I think: attach a "ranking" property to each item. Even if there is no built-in to sort the items by ranking (and there might very well be - I just don't know), it should be fairly easy to use the property API to write a sort. Cheers, Nick _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
