On 2014-10-10, at 00:17, Louis wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been using org-mode for a variety of purposes for a few years. I find > that it suffers from the same problem that other such tools do. The > problem is me. I can't remember week to week how I may have classified > some scrap of information. Did I drop it into notes/someproduct.org or was > it procedures/someprocess.org? > > While working through this, I've used #+INDEX: Topic!subtopic which helps > but is not sufficiently granular. > > I'm thinking about approaches using properties or drawers. Has any of you > done something like this, or done something similar that I've not > considered?
Did you consider a /totally opposite/ approach? I'm currently reorganizing my org files (I had about 15 of them) so that I will be able to cut them down to ≈ half that value. The fewer, the better. And grep is your friend. (I haven't yet got accustomed to C-c a s, but it's really good.) Also, if English is not your native language, consider making notes in English. Whether you like it or not, it has one huge advantage: it's /simple/. Almost no inflections, so grepping English texts is /much/ easier than, say, Polish (we have /a lot/ of inflections). (In this regard, Esperanto is even better, though personally I'm not fluent enough in it to make my notes in Esperanto comfortably.) > Thanks in advance, > > Your rapidly graying, Louis Hth, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University