Re: [OT] How do you keep your reference data?

From: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com>
To: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] How do you keep your reference data?
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 10:08:13 -0600	[thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <87skcniyc9.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca>

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Hi Bernt,

I liked your self-contained approach, and I will try implementing it in my
workflow. Org does not stop amazing me on how flexible it is :)

However, the value of having a wiki is also great IMO. It has a workflow
similar to tomboy (each new org file acts as a new tomboy note) I don't have
to think too much when creating a wiki page (just type
TheNameOfTheSubject.org, save it and begin typing, they are in a central
location (a wiki folder) and they are a great place to register knowledge
data.

I don't know, that might be because I used WikiDPad for a long time on my
Windows days and loved its approach (Two things that org lacks as a
wiki-system, which is a way to view the wiki in a tree format and
automatically create links based on files in the filesystem or camelcase.
Not big deal features, but something that could be contributed as a org
extension - I would do it if I had the elisp knowledge to do so :))

Regards,

Marcelo.

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:

> Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Information that has no potential next action associated but that
> > still has potential reference value and that you'd like to keep
> > around, how and where do you keep it ?
> >
> > I usually check - if it is related to a project, I put it in this
> > project's wiki page (a simple .org ASCII file named after the project
> > under ~/org/wiki folder). If it's not, I try to find out if there's a
> > wiki page that I could fit it into, if not, I create a new file under
> > the wiki folder.
> >
> > I used to use tomboy, but I'm trying to move/center all my data to my
> > org folder. I still use Tomboy for quick notes (collection-phase)
> > though, but not for reference.
> >
> > I then have a simple function that searches (rgrep) through the whole
> > ~/org folder, so that whenever I want to check if I have something
> > about subject x, I just rgrep my PIM folder.
> >
> > ;;a little elisp func to rgrep through all my org directory
> > (defun org-rgrep (REGEXP1) "Searches through all my org/PIM files"
> (interactive "sSearch PIM for: ")
> > (rgrep REGEXP1 "*.org" "/home/marcelo/org" ))
> > ;;bind the previous function to windows_key + o
> > (global-set-key [?\s-o] 'org-rgrep)
> >
> > Would you mind sharing how you do it?
>
> Hi Marcelo,
>
> I keep all my notes in .org files.  Some of these are dedicated for
> reference documentation only and may be exported to other formats for
> consumption by others.  A good example of this is my org-mode document
> at http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html.
>
> Reference material that does not end up in a dedicated document lives in
> an org file without a TODO keyword and with a tag of NOTE.  Where it
> resides is solely based on content.
>
> If it's part of a project task it gets filed under the project
> somewhere.  This is normally project-related notes that don't make sense
> to keep outside the project.  If the project is archived using archive
> by subtree the notes go with it.
>
> If it's general information related to an org file I file it under a
> level 1 * Notes entry in the appropriate org file.  If the org file is
> included in my org-agenda-files I can locate the notes easily with an
> agenda search.  If I drop the file from org-agenda-files then the notes
> for that file are also dropped on agenda searches.  The notes are
> forever available in the .org file.
>
> Finally as a last resort notes go as a level 2 entry in todo.org under
> the level 1 * Notes entry.
>
> HTH,
> Bernt
>
>
>

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