On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 07:54:03PM -0800, lngn...@gmail.com wrote: > > I am studying some text in an org file, some comments from a colleague > on a research project. I need to do a little google search about a > term (something that happens quite often). It would be convenient to > produce a note elsewhere, perhaps in a different file, or perhaps > under a different top-level heading in the same file, with a note to > the term where the cursor is (let's say I've selected it as the > region). I want to capture some notes, perhaps some quite copious > notes, and when done I would like reciprocal links to bind these > bits. Then I can take some good notes on the terms or the topic in > my colleague's notes, and return, and so forth. > > I could do this, and it's not too difficult. However, it would be > *very* helpful to do this with one capture event. Does a facility > exist for this? > > Let me say that I think it does, and it relates to the %a element of a > template. However, I would like permanent links, say of the > current region to the note resulting from the capture event, and vise > versa. > > I thought of footnotes, but this footnote could end up being a whole > chapter, or a small section, in a report! > > Thank you for any suggestions. I apologize in advance, because I'm > sure this is no challenge for the gurus on this list. > > Alan Davis > >
Org-capture. It's a great feature, press a key and take a note to a known location and the template can store date, time, and where you were when the note occurred. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Russell Adams rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint: 1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3
