Re: [O] using org-refile to sort research notes?

2014-05-07 Thread Alfaro-Murillo, Jorge
Hi Jay, I keep all my notes out of the agenda, because it slows down building the agenda (at least with previous versions of org, it might have improved recently), which I do quite often. Instead I keep all those notes files in the variable org-agenda-text-search-extra-files, so that I am

Re: [O] using org-refile to sort research notes?

2014-05-06 Thread Kyle Meyer
Hi Jay, Jay Dixit di...@aya.yale.edu wrote: [...] 2. What's the best way to do this? Should I add all of my chapter.org files to the agenda using org-agenda-file-to-front? I ask because these are not TODO headings, just headings with notes and quotes, so I'm not sure if using org-agenda

Re: [O] using org-refile to sort research notes?

2014-05-05 Thread Jay Dixit
Richard and Alan, Thanks for the feedback. It looks like this is turning into a larger discussion of how to organize a workflow for writing a book. Which is great - I could use some insight. My problem is I have dozens of disparate files, each created in a different moment of inspiration and each

Re: [O] using org-refile to sort research notes?

2014-05-05 Thread Leonard Avery Randall
Hi Jay, Regarding org-refile: I just keep all my current projects in my agenda list. I then set up org-refile-targets to (org-agenda-files :maxlevel . 6). This allows me to quickly refile a subtree to any subtree in any project that I am currently working on. (I use this frequently to

Re: [O] using org-refile to sort research notes?

2014-04-27 Thread Alan L Tyree
Hi Jay, C-c [ and C-c ] adds and removes the current file from the agenda list. I can never remember these, so I leave the menus turned on in emacs (makes me a wimp!). BUT: do you really need to do this? It is the way I used to work, but my current book is 600+ pages and I am keeping it and

Re: [O] using org-refile to sort research notes?

2014-04-27 Thread Richard Lawrence
Hi Jay, Jay Dixit di...@aya.yale.edu writes: Hello friendly org-mode community, I'm using org-mode to research and write a nonfiction book. I have a large amount of notes and quotes that I now need to sort into separate files. I am creating separate org files, one for each chapter of my