Re: [O] Organizing by time or by subject and an idea

2012-02-10 Thread John Hendy
I got food feedback as far as the snapshots inquiry, but am still not settled on the time vs. topic hierarchy strategy (definite thanks to Bernt and Eric Fraga!). I thought of a specific situation that might help with receiving feedback. I think were I solely working as an individual, the

Re: [O] Organizing by time or by subject and an idea

2012-02-10 Thread Bernt Hansen
John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com writes: I got food feedback as far as the snapshots inquiry, but am still not settled on the time vs. topic hierarchy strategy (definite thanks to Bernt and Eric Fraga!). I thought of a specific situation that might help with receiving feedback. I think were I

Re: [O] Organizing by time or by subject and an idea

2012-02-10 Thread John Hendy
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Bernt Hansen be...@norang.ca wrote: John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com writes: I got food feedback as far as the snapshots inquiry, but am still not settled on the time vs. topic hierarchy strategy (definite thanks to Bernt and Eric Fraga!). I thought of a specific

Re: [O] Organizing by time or by subject and an idea

2012-01-31 Thread Eric S Fraga
John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Eric S Fraga e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk wrote: [...] In terms of the original questions, I use a combination of hierarchical structure that is filled in as a project develops, with revision control to allow me to see progress,

Re: [O] Organizing by time or by subject and an idea

2012-01-30 Thread John Hendy
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Eric S Fraga e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk wrote: Max Mikhanosha m...@openchat.com writes: At Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:04:51 -0600, John Hendy wrote: [...] Generally I think the way to tackle this is to take advantage that you are working with plain text and not with Word

Re: [O] Organizing by time or by subject and an idea

2012-01-30 Thread Bernt Hansen
John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Eric S Fraga e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk wrote: The key, as John has already stated, is to record everything!  With emacs, I can usually pull out what I want *if* the information was recorded in the first place. Finally, tags can

Re: [O] Organizing by time or by subject and an idea

2012-01-23 Thread Eric S Fraga
Max Mikhanosha m...@openchat.com writes: At Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:04:51 -0600, John Hendy wrote: [...] Generally I think the way to tackle this is to take advantage that you are working with plain text and not with Word document, and use standard Emacs/Unix tools for working with text.

Re: [O] Organizing by time or by subject and an idea

2012-01-21 Thread Max Mikhanosha
At Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:59:38 -0500, Max Mikhanosha wrote: If you do this copy the project thing once a week or so, you can have a nice ediff of the project's progress along the time-line. Actually it may not be a bad idea to implement M-x org-ediff-subtree-with-sibling command, that would

[O] Organizing by time or by subject and an idea

2012-01-20 Thread John Hendy
I use org-mode for all of my work notes. For the most part, I'm very happy with it. I know everything is in there somewhere and I can find it. I currently have one file for my projects organized something like this: #+begin_src org * Tracking This is for misc todos. It's just a repo for holding