On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Nathan Neff <nathan.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm using org-mode to keep my notes about a slideshow. > > The slideshow is a separate PDF, which is fine with me. > > I'd like to have a quick 1-button press in emacs that would go > to the next headline, and "open" the headline like the super-cool > org-tree-to-indirect-buffer > so I can see my notes quickly. > > I've thought about using the many html export and slideshow options, > but the key thing > is that I want to modify my slideshow notes while presenting, as well > as type in student questions > that happen on a particular slide into org-mode. > > So, I thought about writing a small function that would do something like > this: > > 1) Go to the next headline > 2) Run org-tree-to-indirect-buffer on the headline > > This would get me going in the right direction and save me several key > presses, > but I can already see problems if I switch to the indirect buffer to > write down another note. Then, > I'll have to jump back to the other window, and hope that the cursor > is in the right spot > when I run my function again. > > A more elegant way would be to only show the indirect buffer, and have > a hotkey that > jumps to the next headline and runs org-tree-to-indirect-buffer. > > So here's my question: > > If I'm in an indirect buffer, is there a reference back to the location of > the headline in the *parent* document? For example, if I have > > * One > * Two > * Three > > and I'm zoomed into "Two", could I write a function that would know that I'm > on "Two" in the main document, and then run > org-tree-to-indirect-buffer on "Three"?
Just wanted to mention that I found Org-Tree-Slide, which is exactly what I was looking for -- an easy to use slideshow that just takes an org-mode file and zooms into each headline. http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/non-beamer-presentations.html#sec-4