Re: [O] Keeping metadata/notes about files and directories
Darlan Cavalcante Moreira wrote:
See the custom commands for the agenda in the manual. You can create a
command to do a search in specific files.
Indeed! That’s great, I didn’t know that this is possible. The custom
agenda commands of type “search” also support more complex searches like
“-{author:.*burkov} semimetal”. This solves my searching problem rather
well.
Does org mode support such advanced searches also in other places? It
doesn’t seem to be possible for “sparse tree” views of a single file.
Of course you would need to change this custom command definition if
you add more files, but with the idea of using one file per year from
the other thread that means updating the custom command only once an
year.
This is no problem at all, it could be even automatized.
I didn't test this so see how searching in all of these files scale
when compared to searching in one big file, but I imagine it would be
faster.
If speed ever becomes a problem, I’ll see what can be done about it.
[O] Keeping metadata/notes about files and directories
Dear all, I just wrote under the subject “Re: Managing articles in org mode and collaboration”. This posting puts the other one in a broader context. While thinking about organizing articles, I asked myself: Wouldn’t it be useful to keep metadata/notes about *various* kinds of files/sub-directories/projects inside org-mode (or something similar)? One example is a collection of programming projects. Just like for articles, it would be useful to add notes and metadata to each project. The same is true for many other archive-like collections of things that grow over time. The same problems appear as described in the other posting (namely scaling and searching). I know that there have been discussions about this in the past, and I know that there’s org-annotate-file. Is there anyone who uses a scheme like this (for 1000 items, say) in practice? Christoph
Re: [O] Keeping metadata/notes about files and directories
See the custom commands for the agenda in the manual. You can create a command to do a search in specific files. The framework would be splitting your big org file into multiple files and creating a custom search that search only in those particular files. Of course you would need to change this custom command definition if you add more files, but with the idea of using one file per year from the other thread that means updating the custom command only once an year. I didn't test this so see how searching in all of these files scale when compared to searching in one big file, but I imagine it would be faster. -- Darlan Cavalcante Moreira Christoph Groth writes: Dear all, I just wrote under the subject “Re: Managing articles in org mode and collaboration”. This posting puts the other one in a broader context. While thinking about organizing articles, I asked myself: Wouldn’t it be useful to keep metadata/notes about *various* kinds of files/sub-directories/projects inside org-mode (or something similar)? One example is a collection of programming projects. Just like for articles, it would be useful to add notes and metadata to each project. The same is true for many other archive-like collections of things that grow over time. The same problems appear as described in the other posting (namely scaling and searching). I know that there have been discussions about this in the past, and I know that there’s org-annotate-file. Is there anyone who uses a scheme like this (for 1000 items, say) in practice? Christoph
