Re: Tips on using Org-mode to manage a reading list

2022-05-29 Thread Christian Heinrich
Hi, personally, I find tracking information through TODO keywords rather unappealing. There are two reasons: the first one is that you may loose information. For instance, if you use "TO-READ", "To- BUY", "READ" to track your books, does that mean that every item that is marked "READ" is relate

Re: Tips on using Org-mode to manage a reading list

2022-05-18 Thread Ihor Radchenko
Sébastien Gendre writes: > I want to use Org-mode to manage a reading list and I'm looking for > tips. > > My goals are to: > * List books and articles I want to read > * Track books I have to buy and which I already own > * Track books and articles I have read > * Take notes on books I h

Re: Tips on using Org-mode to manage a reading list

2022-05-16 Thread Samuel Wales
just a brainstorm but is it possible already or in principle for c-c ' to serialize property values and also newline-ize table cells? On 5/16/22, Greg Minshall wrote: > hi, Sébastien, > >> I got to many books and articles for a table... > > hmm. why too many? each column would be an attribute (

Re: Tips on using Org-mode to manage a reading list

2022-05-16 Thread Greg Minshall
hi, Sébastien, > I got to many books and articles for a table... hmm. why too many? each column would be an attribute (title, author, score, publisher, ...), or a status (unread, finished, ...) and each row would be a book. that should scale. the downside of a table (though that is almost cer

Re: Tips on using Org-mode to manage a reading list

2022-05-16 Thread William Denton
On 16 May 2022, William Denton wrote: Your plan looks very much like something I saw on Planet Emacslife¹ a week or two ago ... but now I can't find it because it scrolled off the bottom. Maybe someone else here saw it? Or is the one who wrote it? It was someone using properties to store inf

Re: Tips on using Org-mode to manage a reading list

2022-05-16 Thread Sébastien Gendre
Thanks for your suggestions. I got to many books and articles for a table, but using tables for statistics could be usefull. :) Le 17 mai 2022 01:28:47 GMT+02:00, William Denton a écrit : >On 16 May 2022, Sébastien Gendre wrote: > >> My goals are to: >> * List books and articles I want to read

Re: Tips on using Org-mode to manage a reading list

2022-05-16 Thread William Denton
On 16 May 2022, Sébastien Gendre wrote: My goals are to: * List books and articles I want to read * Track books I have to buy and which I already own * Track books and articles I have read * Take notes on books I have read The following is what I plan to do. The idea is to use an Org-mode

Tips on using Org-mode to manage a reading list

2022-05-16 Thread Sébastien Gendre
Hello. I want to use Org-mode to manage a reading list and I'm looking for tips. My goals are to: * List books and articles I want to read * Track books I have to buy and which I already own * Track books and articles I have read * Take notes on books I have read The following is what I

Tips on using Org-mode to manage a reading list

2022-05-16 Thread Sébastien Gendre
Hello. I want to use Org-mode to manage a reading list and I'm looking for tips. My goals are to: * List books and articles I want to read * Track books I have to buy and which I already own * Track books and articles I have read * Take notes on books I have read The following is what I