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 10:10:47 -0600	[thread overview]
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@Jemarch:

I don't like having a big text file for reference, I have tried it before
and the file got so big that emacs started having troubles rendering it. At
that time, however, I was using a previous version of emacs and org, and I
probably didn't compiled org, so, the rendering problems might just have
been a isolated issue.

Thanks for sharing your experiences,

Marcelo.

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <
celoserpa@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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